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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: balou2 on June 09, 2008, 03:42:38 AM
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I saw a post in a recent thread asking if someone could modify the gain knobs on a recorder from stepped gain, to continual gain. Stepped gain exists on many kinds of units so it need not be directly a recording device, but maybe a pre-amp. Is there a way to actually mod stepped gain in to continual gain? I can't imagine it's just as easy as putting in continual-turn knobs...is it?
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Essentially you would be replacing one potentiometer with another. Unless there is a really good reason to change it, I would leave it alone. But the other folks apparently disagree. The trick is doing the job without buggering it up. Send it out. 8)
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Some stepped gain controls are actually switching in components rather than operating a continuous pot.
Personally, the more I live with the stepped gain of the R-44 the more I like it, but I guess it's not for everyone.
(Advantages - precise resettability, precise changing of gain across multiple channels. Disadvantages - at worst you might end up recording 5.99dB below the level you wanted - if the steps are 6dB - but the chances of that actually mattering audibly in the end result with the gear we have these days is pretty small, imho).