so.. i was thinking.. about tracking...

tehe thats what i do do....!!! i was wondering your views.. and also wanted to know protools limits... i think it does let u clip a bit b 4 in apears/sounds like a clip

If you are using 24 bit(and you should be) there is so much headroom you do not have to peg the meters. Nice in the high green/yellow is a good spot to be, then you have headroom for plugins. even a very low signal in 24 bit can be normalized with almost no noticable noise added. Chrisl cavell explained this somewhere once, but I have found it to be true. Cheers!

I tend to shoot for above -6dBfs peak on percussive and transient sources. I shoot for -14dBfs on average with smoother or more compressed signals, and never allow myself to hit 0dBfs. If you hit 0dBfs on the way in, you've clipped it, period...whether or not you want that sound is up to you. Depending on your preamp and microphone, you could very well distort in the analog domain long before you trip the red clip indicator in Pro Tools... There really is no valid reason for recording "as hot as possible" with 24 bit converters unless the distortion usually present when doing so is key to your production.

I usually compress vocals on the way in with my RNC and no clips!