[LUNI] recording audio to cd

[Mark Stuart Burge]

So are you saying the a to d converter is before the gain control on the 
sound card (in most cases)
I had never paid much thought to that, but you are right.

I guess different cards might handle the input gain in different ways.  
Wouldn't a compressor set to pad the input before the level got anywhere 
near clipping enable you to cut the distortion away ?
(assuming you couldn't control the source signal externally)

Martin Maney wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:06:30PM -0600, Mark Stuart Burge wrote:
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>> Hey Jim, that's the reason I want to feed the audio though jamin first.  
>> It enables you to set compressors on low,mid and high frequencies, and 
>> also put a limiter and graphic eq on the entire signal.  By compressing 
>> the signal, any peaks that would normally clip are gently reduced so 
>> they don't, without reducing the entire audio. Having a jack enabled 
>>     
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> Of course, that doesn't do anything to remove clipping in the original
> A/D conversion, which is what I would guess was the original problem,
> since a simple rip without processing shouldn't have any overload
> problems except at that conversion.
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