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

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RE: Clipping.

OK -- I understand the issue and the cause.  This makes sense to me, 
because
I experienced the problem after successfully silencing my rig to eliminate 
a
hissy/hum using a very slight "noise gating" before my Echoplex.

So -- now I need to have a post-noise-gate device that is a little hissy to
open the Echoplex internal noise gate...  OK.  Does anyone else see the
humour in this?

Anyway, this is then a bug and a feature.   Ad it's not a problem with my
individual unit.

So, it's not fixable (wihout adding "purposeful" noise back into the
system.)?

David Kirkdorffer



In a message dated 96-10-17 03:59:04 EDT, you write:

> Dave K. wrote:
>  >Clipped Off Sounds
>  >
>  >OK.  Here's something I experience with my Echoplex that I find
challenging
>  >:-)
>  >I often use a volume pedal and a 400ms delay so that I can very 
>gradually
>  >bring in a "sound" and fade it down.  Kinda non-revolutionary, I know.
 But
>  >works for what I do.
>  >
>  >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.
>  
>  This is the same noisegate thing that caused Andre his weekend of
>  suffering. The parameter called "threshold" is only for starting a 
>record
>  when you actually start playing. The noisegate is different. It's on all
>  the time and has nothing to do with the "threshold" setting. The 
>noisegate
>  is there to make Undo a much more usable function, so that each press of
>  Undo takes away a real overdub rather than some unintentional noise. It
>  also keeps the echoplex from squandering its memory.
>  
>  Matthias and I have discussed ways to make the noisegate smarter, as 
>well
>  as adding a parameter for it. Its tricky, since the user can cause 
>himself
>  troubles with the undo function without realizing it.
>  
>  kim
>  
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