Compressor round up!

[Hollowcell]

Originally Posted by jasedee

One of the reasons for placing a compressor in the signal chain before hitting HD is that there is less quantisation error in the upper bits, and the compressor should bring up your level (as well as stop it hitting 0dBFS)

A limiter will help stop clipping.

Im not sure if you can place a compressor plug on an input channel.....I must check it out in SX

Also, like HC said, certain high end compressors add colour/character to signal.

I'm not sure if that can be done effectively either. One way may be to route a "real time" compressed by software signal to another output and record it back in that way - what a head fuck! PC internal routing like this isn't an option when recording multiple ins....Also I wonder how latency would effect this? Come to think about it, how could you run the comp before pedals, FX or amps - like I said, what a head fuck!

Anyway....

I think I've finally decided. I've read up heaps over the past few days and I'm settling into my choice.

I'm gunna go for the FMR RNC and still grab the DBX160a for bass. The RNC is raved about all over and for the cash nothing seems to come close. This should tide me over for the basics.

Thanks to all that spoke out!