Question: recording live musicians / clipped audio

[Gert van Santen]

Martin Naef schreef:
> The Dong wrote:
>> Gert van Santen wrote:
>>> This music can often be very dynamic. 
>>> The chance of clipping and distortion is 
>>> huge, or you must go for recording on a 
>>> low volume, which is bad for the sound 
>>> quality (low dynamics) as well.
>> Good quality tube preamps don't clip and distort in that nasty digital 
>> fashion when too much shit hits them. Ummm...
>>
>> A <possible> solution with tube preamps. Ewwwww ;)
> 
> Yeah, that's all true, and part of the "tube magic" - except that we 
> want a *clean*, totally *undistorted* recording with the full dynamic 
> range still intact. If you hit the tubes hard, it may still sound 
> "nice", but you've lost the dynamic range that you wanted to retain in 
> the first place.

I don't think Hans is particularly 
concerned with the odd peak getting 
compressed. I'm sure he is aware of the 
fact that this kind of music is all 
about dynamics. The thing is - if you 
have a great recording, but there are 
one or two clipped waveforms, your whole 
recording is useless.

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