Agreed. Gentle compression can really help, even when tracking. The RNC lets you do gentle compression very easily and very cheaply! -Joe On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 14:18, Jan Depner wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 08:25, Phil Sexton wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 08:31, Joe Hartley wrote: > > > On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:48:59 -0500 > > > "Joseph Dell'Orfano" <fullgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > For miking acoustic instruments, a great preamp may be a sound > > > > investment. You may want to consider spending more resources on this. > > > > > > Add me to the list of people recommending a good mike preamp. For most > > > recording, I don't mind the preamps in my Behringer mixer, but I'd had > > > the opportunity to borrow a nice preamp to use with my mediocre Octava > > > mics, and was really very happy with the results. > > > > > > On the other hand, I realized how much I dislike my Behringer T1953 > > > tube preamp :-/ > > > > I had seen some cautions before about Behringer, so if it is cooked, I > > probably will replace it, but my financial situation is "badly bent" > > just now. > > > > I think the priorities I will set will be some pro sound card first, > > then a preamp. > > > > I really don't care compression in acoustic music as I think the > > dynamics are very important for the "mood" changes we want to deliver in > > our tune sets. > > > I've got an HHB Radius 3 tube compressor and it makes a huge > difference in acoustic guitar. Depending on how you set it, it doesn't > take the dynamics out (you can always smash it if you want to ;-) The > guitar tracks sound less harsh when I use a little compression. The > idea that any compression will completely destroy dynamics is unfounded. > > Jan > >
