Question: recording live musicians / clipped audio

[Martin Naef]

Hi Gert

Gert van Santen wrote:
>> 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 ;)
> 
> Very nice, but expensive.
> 
> Wouldn't there be any software solution? 
> Please remember it isn't about shaping 
> the signal - just preventing clipping.

Well, by the time software gets involved, it's already clipped - hence, 
too late. There might be tools available that detect clipped samples and 
make them "smooth", but I'm not sure if it sounds good enough afterwards.

Bye
Martin

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