OT: ADA8200 News

[Carlos Mills]

Why would you want to do that? I can just imagine speaker fragments flying across the venue when someone unplugs the cable patched into it, or better yet flicks the power switch on an amp with a direct out....

They should just limit the gain to a more usable range and give the gain knob more precision.

Because I would like to have as much dynamic range as I can...?

[airickess]

Because I would like to have as much dynamic range as I can...?

This answer makes absolutely no sense.

[Donnie Frank]

Why would you want to do that? I can just imagine speaker fragments flying across the venue when someone unplugs the cable patched into it, or better yet flicks the power switch on an amp with a direct out....

They should just limit the gain to a more usable range and give the gain knob more precision.

But these go to 11...

[Carlos Mills]

This answer makes absolutely no sense.

"Dynamic range in analog audio is the difference between low-level thermal noise in the electronic circuitry and high-level signal saturation resulting in increased distortion and, if pushed higher, clipping.[13] Multiple noise processes determine the noise floor of a system. Noise can be picked up from microphone self-noise, preamp noise, wiring and interconnection noise, media noise, etc (...)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range

[Carlos Mills]

Why would you want to do that? I can just imagine speaker fragments flying across the venue when someone unplugs the cable patched into it, or better yet flicks the power switch on an amp with a direct out....

They should just limit the gain to a more usable range and give the gain knob more precision.

By the way, I use SAC to record live (to SAWStudio), not for PA.

[airickess]

"Dynamic range in analog audio is the difference between low-level thermal noise in the electronic circuitry and high-level signal saturation resulting in increased distortion and, if pushed higher, clipping.[13] Multiple noise processes determine the noise floor of a system. Noise can be picked up from microphone self-noise, preamp noise, wiring and interconnection noise, media noise, etc (...)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range

And this just proves my point. Cranking up the preamps all the way is very bad practice and will usually result in "...increased distortion and, if pushed higher, clipping."

[Carlos Mills]

By the way, I use SAC to record live (to SAWStudio), not for PA.

Here is a sample of my live recording gigs (Brazilian Music), all of them with ADA8000: http://snd.sc/10Vmtfw

[beatpete]

Here is a sample of my live recording gigs (Brazilian Music), all of them with ADA8000: http://snd.sc/10Vmtfw

Great sound, good job!

[mojogil]

I like it!

[Carlos Mills]

Great sound, good job!

Thanks Beatpete, we have a wonderful tool for live recordings with SAC/SAW. In the future I am willing to use SAC for streaming live throw the Internet as well.