Re: portable PA for electronic looper

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

>> If you are doing
>> direct line-in guitar you can limit damaging spikes by using plenty of
>> headroom and a limiter.
>> Per Boysen

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Fabio_A <eterogenus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had exactly the same idea.
> Limiters are very useful to avoid occasional spikes.
> They are used in most "Pro" context (live or studio ).
> Try "Voxengo Elephant" VST plugin. put it at the very end
> of your signal chain and adiust its settings to "limit" the maximum
> peak to a certain threshold.

And when using a laptop rig, try to avoid using plugins that create
extra latency! For live playing, go for plugins that do their job
within the host specified plugin buffer.

Over here I keep the simple Logic/Mainstage Limiter on the final
stereo output bus. Another latency avoiding trick is to use reverb
returns with non temp critical effects coming back through a multi
compressor (that one delays the signal with 5 ms) on a parallel bus in
order to route my instrument signal directly to the output. This
allows me to play with 12.7 ms latency (at buffer 128 samples), which
is totally ok, sort of equaling standing a few meters away from your
speaker cabinet on stage.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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