limiter or similiar for live recording

[toadies]

After doing recording 3 bands last night with my digi001, the vocals were very hot!

It was in the red most the time, also the vocal tracks picked up the guitars and everything else there. mixing guy couldn't do anything about it thou, sucks

Anyway now i'm looking to get a 2-channel limiter, i need something that will basically be a brick wall so it would not digitally clip anymore.

I don't want to spend alot! keep that in mind.

Also what about using a gate of some sort? keeping gutiars and other interments off that track? I have a gate plugin in protools but i'm not getting succesful sounds. I would say guitars were at least -4db then vocals came in which didn't give enough head room to play with.

thanks for any help.

 

[toadies]

Only thing i found was a Behringer MDX4400 Multicom® Pro Quad Compressor/Limiter.

Looks good, for the price. after research people say its not actually a bad unit.

Should i spend the extra $30 and get the Behringer MDX4600 Multicom Pro-XL Compressor, which has an Integrated dynamic enhancer, de-esser, and low-contour filter.

I dunno, what to do. This is all for live recording from a line-level feed from a mixing board.

 

[mixsit]

After doing recording 3 bands last night with my digi001, the vocals were very hot!
It was in the red most the time, also the vocal tracks picked up the guitars and everything else there. mixing guy couldn't do anything about it thou, sucks

When there are situations that prevent you from watching the levels, brickwall could help some. But the result could still be Do-Do, depending on how hard they are hitting. (It's still a chopped off signal.) Better still, set lots of headroom and stay on top of it, at least untill everything has setteled down. At -12 or 18, your converter noise (in a 'rock' gig?) is still well below.

Also what about using a gate of some sort? keeping gutiars and other interments off that track? I have a gate plugin in protools but i'm not getting succesful sounds. I would say guitars were at least -4db then vocals came in which didn't give enough head room to play with.

thanks for any help.

If a gate after the fact doesn't help, doing it going in risks much worse results -screw-ups that can't be fixed later.
Later

Wayne

 

[toadies]

Re: Re: limiter or similiar for live recording

When there are situations that prevent you from watching the levels, brickwall could help some. But the result could still be Do-Do, depending on how hard they are hitting. (It's still a chopped off signal.) Better still, set lots of headroom and stay on top of it, at least untill everything has setteled down. At -12 or 18, your converter noise (in a 'rock' gig?) is still well below.



If a gate after the fact doesn't help, doing it going in risks much worse results -screw-ups that can't be fixed later.
Later

Wayne

well i was able to control 2 signals coming from the mixing board, but one was a insert, which i couldn't control volume, on my digi001 i wasn't able to turn down the level low enough. I was wanting to get it for this reason to adjust the levels better along with a limiter incase somehting does happen.