Question: recording live musicians / clipped audio

Gert van Santen EMAIL HIDDEN
Wed Sep 19 16:13:26 CEST 2007


Martin Naef schreef:
> 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.

Ah, yes, of course...
Thx.

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