Topic: Brickwalled recordings

[zzrck]

i thought brickwalling was where the mic was overloaded on the sound level.
i taped a ted nugent show , the recording level was set low , it didnt even come close , but the sound level itself
was way higher then my mic could handle , so even tho the recording level on my recorder was
set on the low side , the recording itself was bigtime distorted couse the mic was overloaded .
there was nothing i could do to save the recording ,  i finally gave up on trying to save it.

[jlykos]

thanks jaime.
Now when you say clipped, you mean 0 right?
That, to my knowledge is the only way it will work in SF
because it looks for anything @ 0db.
I may be wrong though.

When I "bricked" I didn't have any peaks above -4.
Just squared off waveforms at -4db that were distorted.
Since then though I just run the pad on my 660 and all is well.
-todd

Sorry, I misread your original post.  If you brickwalled the preamp, there is very little that you can do about the recording in my experience.  Clipped is going over 0 on the A/D.  The pad on the 660 will help with clipping if you have mics > 660, but if you run a preamp in front of it, there is nothing that the 660 can do about what happens at the preamp stage.

Good luck with everything in the future!

[newplanet7]

No problem.
It only happened once in 2008 when I first got it.
Just because I didn't run the pad on  the recorder.
Everything sense then has been great.