4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
3:45 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:55:12PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:01:02 +0200, Pieter Palmers
wrote
A compressor might not be fast or hard enough to buy you much safety.
For that, better would be a good fast limiter and a subsonic filter.
The filter is pretty easy and cheap (see e.g. the Harrison Labs Fmod),
but I don't happen to know of a really good inexpensive brick-wall
limiter first-hand. I've heard that the Aphex Dominator isn't bad, but
it's hardly cheap. Maybe one of the DBX models? *shrug*
If I owned a venue or rented a sound system I'd probably provide my own
anyway, but I don't know how many do that.
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
the following links provide quite some info
regarding distortion,
clipping and DC offsets:
http://sound.westhost.com/clipping.htm
http://sound.westhost.com/tweeters.htm
interesting articles
My recommendations:
- Be sure to do a decent sound-check: have a full-scale piece of
music ready for the PA engineer to set the PA desk incoming level,
and be sure not to change your volume when soundcheck is done. -
Adapt the dynamic range of your music to the live enviroment, e.g.
by using a compressor plugin just before the soundcard output.
so it isn't so much of a software problem, but rather the responsibility of
the artist to keep the dynamic range down, and the sound engineer to set the
levels sensibly?
it's interesting though, as a lot of performers who use computers eschew the
soundcheck these days, thinking just a line test, or just plugging in and
setting the volume, is enough.
so, would it be a good idea to purchase a small compressor, if using homemade
analogue synths, or even software capable of producing nasty signals?