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<blockquote data-quote="Jimmy Hardin" data-source="post: 7466" data-attributes="member: 3644">Hey guys , Last night i did a Youth rally and they had a Hip hop rapper there and I was hired to do the sound for it. I Have a pretty good system for what i generally do, but Last night he was clipping his channel and almost had the overall mix clipping as well, and of course the main amp was clipping ( Just flickering on the peaks) and i try not to clip it at all but last night was kinda hard not to. I have a behringer sx2442fx mixer and i like it but for hip hop i dont think it will hold up as well as any other mixer , so my question is this. (Personally i believe that it was the preamps inside the Mixer being over loaded. ) So what pre amps are best and for that kind of event what would be the best in these mixers here. Here is what i am interested in getting. [h=1]Yamaha MG206C[/h]Allen and Heath Zed 24 USB[h=1]Soundcraft GB2R 16 Compact Mixer [/h]Also , I would like to know something else , I have a compressor and it has a limiter on it . will this help this clipping problem on signals that are too hot, from clipping the mixer and amp as well? i have the compressor as serial not in parallel.&nbsp; I am not a newby at this , I mean i do know what i am doing , but i am just having the problem with the rapper stuff. can anyone shed some solutions that might help?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jimmy Hardin, post: 7466, member: 3644"] Hey guys , Last night i did a Youth rally and they had a Hip hop rapper there and I was hired to do the sound for it. I Have a pretty good system for what i generally do, but Last night he was clipping his channel and almost had the overall mix clipping as well, and of course the main amp was clipping ( Just flickering on the peaks) and i try not to clip it at all but last night was kinda hard not to. I have a behringer sx2442fx mixer and i like it but for hip hop i dont think it will hold up as well as any other mixer , so my question is this. (Personally i believe that it was the preamps inside the Mixer being over loaded. ) So what pre amps are best and for that kind of event what would be the best in these mixers here. Here is what i am interested in getting. [h=1][SIZE=2][B]Yamaha MG206C[/B][/SIZE][/h][B][SIZE=2]Allen and Heath Zed 24 USB[/SIZE][/B] [h=1][SIZE=2]Soundcraft GB2R 16 Compact Mixer [/SIZE][/h]Also , I would like to know something else , I have a compressor and it has a limiter on it . will this help this clipping problem on signals that are too hot, from clipping the mixer and amp as well? i have the compressor as serial not in parallel. I am not a newby at this , I mean i do know what i am doing , but i am just having the problem with the rapper stuff. can anyone shed some solutions that might help? [/QUOTE]

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