Alto CLE 2.0 vs Behringer MDX1600

[scrubs]

Do you really need a compressor? If it is really degrading your signal (like much alto & behringer gear will), just take it out of the signal path. The FMR RNC is only $175 and can often be found used in the $125 range. It will run circles around those compressors.

[mipearson]

Originally Posted by scrubs

Do you really need a compressor? If it is really degrading your signal (like much alto & behringer gear will), just take it out of the signal path. The FMR RNC is only $175 and can often be found used in the $125 range. It will run circles around those compressors.

It's not - the signal is already pretty poor (it's coming from a crappy 90's synth and stage piano from when 8mb of sample ROM was considered high end), and the final destination is a keyboard amp.

The overall sound with light compression from the Alto is better than the sound without any compression at all, because otherwise if I thump the keys real hard it clips