if you have a low level signal to begin with you are going to have a *lot* of noise when you bring the volume up. you are much better off with the signal being boosted before it is digitised, hence the need for a pre. if you want to go cheap, just get whatever preamp you can find (even behringer) and use your current mic. even a cheap pre will work better than none. then you can decide down the track if you think it is worth investing more.

porl

On 01/11/2007, Paul Winkler <pw_lists@slinkp.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:00:40PM -0700, william estrada wrote:
> Paul,
>
>    I have being thinking about a software fix.  Do you have some example
> code of how to do a 'compressor' or up the volume?  I think that would
> be a better solution.  Trying to keep the hardware cost down.  It will
> be a multi-user environment.

I just fire up Ardour, insert the SC4 ladspa compressor on a track or
bus, and tweak until happy.

It's probably helpful to read something about what all the controls
do.  For example:
http://www.doctorproaudio.com/doctor/temas/dynamics-processors-compressors_en.shtml

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Paul Winkler




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