Re: [gear] preamps for field use

["Walter Knapp" waltknapp]

Posted by: "Danny Meltzer"

> Dan it's somewhat subjective I suppose,

You can easily overdo it in either direction.

> But you are shedding some light on just how deeply internalized some
> of the 'rules' of analog recording become.

The first lesson most learn when switching from analog to digital is to
be more precise in adding headroom. To totally avoid that 0dB spot on
the meters. That there is no such thing as ok clipping.

It does not, however, mean that analog vanished. The first stage of your
recording system is still analog and too low a saturation still has the
same problems there. It's just that too high has meaner results too. In
the end the system you use that gets the best results with a single mono
mic will also get the most consistent results when you use two mono
mics in some stereo mic configuration.

Plus, then you have only one set of new bad habits to learn ;-)

Walt