using plugins (compressor) DURING recording in Logic

[M-.-n]

One reflection I also had is that if you mix a lot of tracks together, 
you won't really need to run each individual signal at full dynamics. I 
notice exporting my LGPT tracks that the volume of individual tracks are 
around 1/2 of the dynamics and I can leave most of the live faders 
around zero. There's no real point (maybe?) to record  the sound at full 
dynamic range if you are going to put all of the faders half way down. 
In my opinion, the major problem of using the compressor in the DAW is 
the latency of the recording loop (because you somehow need the player 
to hear the effected track), not the signal headroom.

In case of guitars, it seems more and more people also record both the 
affected signal and a dry one simultaneously (assuming the processing is 
done externally) to have the flexibility of using the real 'performance' 
or doing defered processing.

0.02 euros on this :)

Just a thought
> Actually, after thinking this through, I don't think I will 
> change my method.
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> I was just checking out some options for a recording session I 
> will be doing in some weeks - I'll have to go to the band's 
> rehearsal room to do the recording. I do have two or three 
> hardware compressors that will do the job, but I also have some 
> nice soft compressors, so I was wondering if this would help me 
> in any way. But since the most important reason for using 
> compression during recording is preventing clipping, it would be 
> useles to insert a compressor after the A/D converter.
>
> Guess I'll be using hardware, as usual, then :-)
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> Thanks,
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