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Suppose I feed an actress' mono lavalier mic into M10's Line-in.
AFAIK there is no built-in safety track feature on M10, where I could set one channel's level to be say 12dB lower in case she yells.
On the other hand, since I keep Limiter (but not AGC) always engaged, do we even need safety track? I hear you can't overload M10 with Limiter on - is it true?
I don't know that equipment, so this is not really an answer
but... even though hitting the limiter would not allow it to go over-meter, it's not going to sound nice. You'll hear it suddenly flat-line.
If you've no other safety-net, I'd suggest testing before-hand how much noise-floor you perceptively gain at -6 or -12 & see which you can live with.
I remember back at the BBC in the late 80s, that even on then state-of-the-art 16-bit gear, they would always run regular program peaks at -12; as being better to have overhead & noise-floor than ever hit the [in those days totally unforgiving] red-line.
I'd always say, if it's good enough for the Beeb, it's good enough for me ;)
