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Originally Posted by Reptil  yes, AD2044 - thanks for pointing out the spelling mistake 
I think it's because they "sparkle" (good word for what it does yes) they also take up the high freq noise that's normally buried somewhere in there. It would be a good idea to keep the signal path as short as possible, and maybe add a good lowpass filter to it (just before the preamp). Not so much that you can hear it, but enough to get rid of the high freq trash. Did you try that? IME a lowpassgate (vactrols) helps smooth these out before compression. |
I hadn't thought of inserting anything before the preamp. I do on the other hand have the EQ between the preamp and comp and I roll of high end with it sometimes. The noise was very manageable, not enough for me to bother with last time I tracked this way. I'm thinking about aiming for a much lower noise floor in the next recordings I do, just to see if I can get a very "black" backdrop, so I might worry more about it then.
-synthoid