I just wanted to know if when dumping off your tape machine (Tascam-MS16) into Pro Tools through an Apogee DA-16X: Would using the pad across all tracks to prevent any clipping effect the sound of the conversion?
Just wanted to know if a pad could make a difference in the sound in this situation... or can a pad effect the sound in any situation for that matter?
Dumping from tape into Computer with pad....
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Pads ALWAYS affect the sound, but it is probably better than clipping the input...
Just give it a listen. Sometimes it is an evil that you can deal with later on down the chain, sometimes it seems to just suck the life out of certain sounds IMHO.
I would rather cal' the repro so that my two devices got along a little better. Are you printing psychotically hot to your tape machine?
I have actually had to re-align just to xfer stuff that was printed at like +40 zillion so I could even get it into PTHD and start up the expander festival to try and mine some transients....
Just give it a listen. Sometimes it is an evil that you can deal with later on down the chain, sometimes it seems to just suck the life out of certain sounds IMHO.
I would rather cal' the repro so that my two devices got along a little better. Are you printing psychotically hot to your tape machine?
I have actually had to re-align just to xfer stuff that was printed at like +40 zillion so I could even get it into PTHD and start up the expander festival to try and mine some transients....
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