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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 56513" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Midas Pro 1My first response go eaten by the BB software since i took too long to post it...(being careful about my choice of words), So lets try again. Good information to know. Interesting... So if I understand, you have customers who intentionally overdrive mic preamps to make their signature sound? This was pretty common practice in the very old days when tracking drums on magnetic tape to provide some free compression.&nbsp; This tape compression was used because real limiters were pretty rare (expensive) and it didn&#039;t totally suck on some instruments (like drums). This was a lesser evil than the constant tape noise beneath percussively played instruments.&nbsp;&nbsp; I guess a transformer based mic preamp could share some of that magnetic domain saturation characteristic, or a dedicated limiter circuit could be added to do whatever the designer wants it to. Of course the dynamic range available with modern paths makes this less attractive of a trade-off (increased distortion for improved S/N).&nbsp; Surely the customer is always right, and the only way to allow one customer to cream the front end without trashing everybody&#039;s signal is redundant circuitry. A premium solution, but if the customer(s) are willing to pay for it, nice if you can get it. I won&#039;t argue about the subjective appeal of overloaded mic preamps, if it was up to me I&#039;d be tempted to give those guys a shock, until they stop clipping the path, but they paid their geld so they get to drive the bus any way they want. JR[edit] It will allow your customers to &quot;dirty&quot; up a too pristine digital path.... another subjective rabbit hole I don&#039;t want to fall into. [/edit]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 56513, member: 126"] Re: Midas Pro 1 My first response go eaten by the BB software since i took too long to post it...(being careful about my choice of words), So lets try again. Good information to know. Interesting... So if I understand, you have customers who intentionally overdrive mic preamps to make their signature sound? This was pretty common practice in the very old days when tracking drums on magnetic tape to provide some free compression. This tape compression was used because real limiters were pretty rare (expensive) and it didn't totally suck on some instruments (like drums). This was a lesser evil than the constant tape noise beneath percussively played instruments. I guess a transformer based mic preamp could share some of that magnetic domain saturation characteristic, or a dedicated limiter circuit could be added to do whatever the designer wants it to. Of course the dynamic range available with modern paths makes this less attractive of a trade-off (increased distortion for improved S/N). Surely the customer is always right, and the only way to allow one customer to cream the front end without trashing everybody's signal is redundant circuitry. A premium solution, but if the customer(s) are willing to pay for it, nice if you can get it. I won't argue about the subjective appeal of overloaded mic preamps, if it was up to me I'd be tempted to give those guys a shock, until they stop clipping the path, but they paid their geld so they get to drive the bus any way they want. JR [edit] It will allow your customers to "dirty" up a too pristine digital path.... another subjective rabbit hole I don't want to fall into. [/edit] [/QUOTE]

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