Question: recording live musicians / clipped audio

[Martin Naef]

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.

Bye
Martin

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