Question: recording live musicians / clipped audio

[The Dong]

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 ;)