Re: [AH] Mildly interesting empirical CS80 factoid

From Andrew Horton
Sent Tue, Mar 12th 2019, 14:53

Are you talking about distorting the final gain stage/master output of the =
CS80?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:45 AM RJ Krohn
<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> I noticed recently that a CS80 will do a thing in the digital recording d=
omain that's fairly rare: the audio will distort well below the redline thr=
eshold, depending on the patch. I will often run signal at -12Db to -18Db i=
n a Protools session. Most of the patches in the machine will distort somew=
here in this range; I often have to bring signal path down below that -18Db=
 threshold to get a clean audio signal. I'm sharing because I realized this=
 is about as close to an empirical affirmation of what many folks hear with=
 their ears: a described "richness". So there's your useless synth nerd fac=
t for the day. As you were-R