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Old 19.08.2005, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by AlexHall74
OK, as far as compressors are concerned:

Is it not true that ONLY a hardware compressor placed in the signal path BEFORE a signal is recorded can prevent CLIPPING?

<Jase, help me out here!>

So, a software compressor can effectively act as a hardware compressor on a recorded signal that has not exceeded 0dB in the digital domain, BUT it cannot stop a vocal or clean guitar signal from clipping as it is recorded.

I have alwayse been led to believe (by a few sources) that it is best to record as such:

SOURCE->PREAMP->COMPRESSOR->Recording INTERFACE

Unless of course you are all digital...

Am I on the right track or full of shite?!



-Alex
I think i read something semilar to what you?r saying in some guide on the internet...
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