Ray Thomas wrote:

I've made the transition to laptop recording from DAT reasonably
successfully, but there are still occasions when I would like to use my RNC
as an end-of-the-chain hard limiter for the final 0.1dB of input signal
after my Mackie VLZ Pro and before my stereo Echo Indigo IO soundcard. I
generally try and keep levels conservative (classical or chamber groups, and
solo players of acoustic instruments, or singers) ......and if I'm recording
at 24/96 I can keep levels quite low and safe. But for those 16/44.1 jobs
I'd like to have a 'keeper at the gate'....and also for those times when I
still use my Teac DA P20 DAT !

I think you're pushing too close to disaster to rely on the RNC to save
you. It could help if you leave a little more headroom, but set to its
fastest attack it can cause artifacts in some signals (due to physics,
not any defect of the RNC). A Waves L2 Ultramaximizer, while probbly not
within your budget, can do what you want and also provide damned good
ADC and decent DAC, too.

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ha