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Which limiters are good enough?
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<blockquote data-quote="Brian jojade" data-source="post: 50498" data-attributes="member: 211"><p>Re: Which limiters are good enough?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Very good analogy. The best solution to prevent blowing up gear is to make sure you have enough that you're not driving it to the edge. If I EVER see a clip light during a show, that means I didn't bring enough.</p><p></p><p>I run DR260's on most of my rigs, and have the peak limiter in place just in case things go horribly wrong. But they aren't there to kick in during a show. i.e., bad cable, someone drops a mic, etc. My power amps are matched so that out of clip, the RMS power run for extended periods should not be a problem. You'd have to try REALLY hard to push it to the limit long enough to blow it.</p><p></p><p>Of course, running this way means bringing in more speaker to do the job than you could get by with if running to the edge, but if you bring in $1000 worth of speakers and end up blowing them up every couple years, or bring in $2000 worth of speakers and never blow a single one, which way are you going to come out ahead?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brian jojade, post: 50498, member: 211"] Re: Which limiters are good enough? Very good analogy. The best solution to prevent blowing up gear is to make sure you have enough that you're not driving it to the edge. If I EVER see a clip light during a show, that means I didn't bring enough. I run DR260's on most of my rigs, and have the peak limiter in place just in case things go horribly wrong. But they aren't there to kick in during a show. i.e., bad cable, someone drops a mic, etc. My power amps are matched so that out of clip, the RMS power run for extended periods should not be a problem. You'd have to try REALLY hard to push it to the limit long enough to blow it. Of course, running this way means bringing in more speaker to do the job than you could get by with if running to the edge, but if you bring in $1000 worth of speakers and end up blowing them up every couple years, or bring in $2000 worth of speakers and never blow a single one, which way are you going to come out ahead? [/QUOTE]
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