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Originally Posted by Table Of Tone  I'm an AD 122 user myself and nothing else I've tried, touches em, sonically!
The AD 122 seems to retain more of the natural dynamics of the mix and more of any movements I've made in the analogue domain.
I use a slightly different version to the standard one.
They are expensive and a little temperamental.
I'm probably gonna have to get another spare one! |
I can't believe you guys are actually clipping A/D converters for sound effect!? And even going a far as rating them on the basis of how they respond to overload errors?
This is a very bad idea IMVHO - and what you will get will be a lottery involving what the converter actually spits out and what will happen when the erroneous result is processed in your mix. It's asking for trouble :-(
More to the point - if A/Ds are to be rated by how they respond when drastically over driven, that leaves the door wide open for A/D manus to 'exploit' you by deliberately building in errors and distortion into their converters, which you cannot remove when you don't want it.. This is a massive step backwards technically and undoes one of the valuable advantages of digital audio which is supposed to put
you in charge :-(