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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 56572" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Midas Pro 1I won&#039;t argue about what one person hears, lets alone &quot;most&quot; people, but if they can convince a few people that soft-clipping is higher headroom, more power to them. This is less onerous (IMO) than the makers who inadvertently don&#039;t provide clip detecting for internal gain stages and buses while touting high headroom.&nbsp; I agree with you on several points, and not only do un-clipped mic preamps sound similar, but that should be true for the rest of the path too (IMO)... Of course we can both come up with a list of stupid console design errors made by industry players over the decades, but by this time in Madas&#039; history they won&#039;t be making newbie mistakes, not to mention digital is not subject to the same &quot;analog&quot; design issues. Salesmen will probably keep touting mic preamps, because consumers will keep asking about them, but this is like a positive feedback system where the manufacturers like having a hook to promote... Hard to sell a console by claiming that it has no sound, or sounds exactly like whatever mic you plug into it, but that is the true design goal, again IMO, and YMMV. JRPS I remain suspicious of soft-clipping being a desirable sound element, but listening to what occurs in many modern recordings with apparent clipping all over the place, who knows, not me? The customer is always right, even when horribly wrong.. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 56572, member: 126"] Re: Midas Pro 1 I won't argue about what one person hears, lets alone "most" people, but if they can convince a few people that soft-clipping is higher headroom, more power to them. This is less onerous (IMO) than the makers who inadvertently don't provide clip detecting for internal gain stages and buses while touting high headroom. I agree with you on several points, and not only do un-clipped mic preamps sound similar, but that should be true for the rest of the path too (IMO)... Of course we can both come up with a list of stupid console design errors made by industry players over the decades, but by this time in Madas' history they won't be making newbie mistakes, not to mention digital is not subject to the same "analog" design issues. Salesmen will probably keep touting mic preamps, because consumers will keep asking about them, but this is like a positive feedback system where the manufacturers like having a hook to promote... Hard to sell a console by claiming that it has no sound, or sounds exactly like whatever mic you plug into it, but that is the true design goal, again IMO, and YMMV. JR PS I remain suspicious of soft-clipping being a desirable sound element, but listening to what occurs in many modern recordings with apparent clipping all over the place, who knows, not me? The customer is always right, even when horribly wrong.. :-) [/QUOTE]

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