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Originally Posted by Cellotron  In this case, instead of using the attenuators on the ADC you could alternately just turn up an analog gain stage at the end (i.e.something like an active line stage or if you are compressing the signal with an analog box just turn up the output gain on the comp).
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The Mytek just does straight hard clipping so you have to be careful not to overload it too much because once you go past just clipping the highest transient peaks you really risk distorting the material. The Lavry Blue ADC has a couple of optional "saturation" features - one analog, one digital - that may be useful when clipping inputs - and it also has a reputation of having slightly more headrom than most other converters. I haven't been able to test this out for myself yet though. |
Thanks Steve!
For the moment I'm working ITB with high quality plugs, no outboard gear to drive the input stage of the UA. I'm coming straight in from my DAC. Therefore I'll have to fiddle with the input trimmers to experiment with the UA front end. Will try it out this weekend.
If I understand you correctly the Mytek96 does not allow for the gradual increase of good sounding gain like the UA front end does, but will rather quickly go into unwanted distortion. Right?
Cheers
Jørn