Please whip me into shape with these 2 homegrown newbie ideas

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I was considering running recordings from a Korg D1600(getting one first) at 24 bit 44.1 khz through a ART PRO VLA compressor and into the analog RCA ins of Stand alone CD recorder. Ok I can here you, its sounds fishy to me to just a little idea.
Also I have a BR864 Boss recorder(its 16 bit 44.1)if I ran this entire signal through the Soundcraft mixer then analog out to a ART PRO VLA compressor and then into the analog in of standalone CD recorder would I get degration from the original boss recording? Even so would this conceivably improve the sound at all?
 
it would improve the sound if limiting is what you are after. I wouldn't do this without a quality cd burner. a lot of the standalones are total pieces. if the korg has a cd burner in it already, you could run your mix through the vla and back into the korg to burn there. the only reason to run through the mixer would be to adjust panning and eq.
 
RCAGuy05 said:
I was considering running recordings from a Korg D1600(getting one first) at 24 bit 44.1 khz through a ART PRO VLA compressor and into the analog RCA ins of Stand alone CD recorder. Ok I can here you, its sounds fishy to me to just a little idea.
Also I have a BR864 Boss recorder(its 16 bit 44.1)if I ran this entire signal through the Soundcraft mixer then analog out to a ART PRO VLA compressor and then into the analog in of standalone CD recorder would I get degration from the original boss recording? Even so would this conceivably improve the sound at all?
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Not an unusual idea at all. Would you get any degradation? Yes, inevitably there would be some, probably very little if you work carefully, but if you want the tube compression on your stereo mixdown (which is a very common technique), it's probably a good tradeoff. In fact it should work well on the Boss too.

The quality of your final result will be largely dependent upon your the quality of your mix, and your tasteful use of the compressor. Done correctly it should sound very nice.
 
Sounds like great advice man. But how exactly do you run sound out of the recorder, through a compressor and mixer and then back into the recorder without crazy overload or malfunction of some sort. If this is like a house hold technique I'm just not aware of I'd like to know.
 
Falken or do you mean burn the CD and then simply play that actual CD back through a compressor and mixer and back into the recorder. I'm just not sure how you'd run the mix out of the recorder, through the outboard stuff, and then back into the recorder.
 
its no different than playing back a drum track while you lay down the bass. you just record it to a new track.
 
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