Originally Posted by Panomaniac
Interesting recording. But way clipped! Guess he didn't know how loud it would be.
He was quite a ways away. Depends on the gear too, a lot of vintage stuff you had to insert inline pads...to do it right you would have to take measurements one launch then record the next.
anyway, just though it fit here when blundered across it.
did you use the embedded player? If so download the wave file...
http://www.archive.org/download/Laun...aunch_2496.wav
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
I downloaded the file, opened in a wave editor and had a look. But I could tell by listening that it was clipped. I pulled my sample from the right channel that has less clipping than the left.
As you say, it's hard to predict this stuff. You'd have to record one, then try again. Hopefully you'd get it right on the second try. It's not like NASA is going to give you a sound check! Looks like he overdrove the digital mic preamp.
Agreed on the preamp clipping...it's also the most common mistake in live sound and studio work.
To me the clipping was less offensive on the better quality sample, may have been I just like better quality.
Gain staging is the next most common mistake. Newbs that have gotten the idea on input clipping know to back off the preamp....but run a lot of gain on the channel, while leaving the master low. Think about setting a guitar amp up for overdrive...channel high, master low.....
All gains should be near median for best headroom...run too much in one spot you can overload the next stage...and there are no clip lights there to show you...Like the good book sez, everything in moderation...
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
Indeed!
See here by yours truly: Gain Structure-Gain Staging
More aimed at the Hi-Fi audience than pro, but the discipline comes from the pro world.
I'm trying to get them to think about it.
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