"Ewald Streitenberger" wrote in message om...

So the main opinion here is:
1) No need to reduce dynamics, simply reduce the gain and/or back the
horns off the mics.
2) There´s no need to record the signal with a high level (hope you
understand my english) as you usually did with a analogue tape
recorder.

I would agree with that...


So there´s another question for me:
Creamware writes in the A/D converter´s manual: "You HAVE to care
about high leveling". Is this nonsense ?

I believe that it is. If they are making this statement in a generic fashion,
as in it's important to *everything* you record, then it's wrong, in my opinion.
If they are specific about certain sources, then it's at least worth debating.


And as I wrote earlier, I´m not able to keep a big distance between
the horns, because the room is actually too small and therefore I have
to put the mics very close to the horn, not directly ´looking´ into
the bell.

Lower the gain and process after the fact if you need to... once you see
how the part is going to fit into the mix. Otherwise, a hardware peak
limiter in the signal path before the DAW might help a little. There are
not many compressors that attack fast enough to stop the transients
found in most horns.

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