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Spring Reverbs again

Started by phatt, November 26, 2012, 08:21:49 AM

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Roly

I only meant a compressor/limiter in the path to your recorder, just to contain the dynamics on the recording, not as a normal part of the guitar path, coz you've got some really hard headroom limiting on some of the louder parts.  With a tape recorder the rule is "lickin' the red" but with digital recordings anything higher than -3dB starts to cause problems.  Post compressing won't help, the level has to be contained before it is digitised, so it has to be analogue in the front-end to the recorder.

The EA cct allows adjustment from no action at all to hard brick-wall limiting.

The rising characteristic looks similar to current drive.  If we conceptually transfer the two parallel 47 ohm resistors into the tranny to the secondary they would appear as a very much larger resistor (~3k) between tranny and line driver, and combined with the voltage transformation would give you effectively current drive.
If you say theory and practice don't agree you haven't applied enough theory.