Re: Bug or Feature -- anyone else experience this?

[The Man Himself <altruist@shoko.calarts.edu>]

On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 SayAaahh@aol.com wrote:

> The trouble is when I bring in the note quietly, my Echoplex -- while 
>passing
> the sound to my amp -- waits until there is enough gain to RECORD it so 
>the
> beginning of the sound seems to be clipped-off.
> 
> Now I know there IS a very cool feature to turn RECORD on when a note is
> played  and the "trigger-gain-sensitivity" can be set.  I've used it 
>once or
> twice.  But I turned this feature off.  In fact, I've RESET the machine 
>twice
> to make sure I've turned it off.

I've run into this too.  I *always* use the trigger-record method; I 
can't remember the last time I didn't have it engaged.  And I too use a 
lot of volume-swell/post-Holdsworth/Torn/Rypdal/(insert name here) 
effects in my loops; I also noticed that the very earliest parts of this 
fade-in were lost in the recording.  I had previsouly assumed that this 
was symptomatic of the threshold record feature, but given what you've 
said, as well as the recent revelation with the noise gate, I think it's 
another side-effect of the internal noise reduction system, which I don't 
believe can be easily sidestepped with the original software.  You might 
try compressing the signal...

--Andre