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... but was hoping for cimpressing as I recorded. :D
Just a quick note from a very experienced audio engineer... You do not want to get in the habit of compressing audio live. It is painful to edit later, and compression will bring up the noise floor. And I mean in all situations, not just what you are talking about. It's like shooting in JPG vs RAW. Shoot in RAW-
always.
The only think you would want to do live-and I'm not going against the moderator here at all-is a limiter. But the situation would be extreme to warrant this, and certainly not be your standard. Your instinct should always be to pull the microphone(s) back is a loud event is being recorded intentionally. If it's an unintentional loud event (horns honking, coughing, cell phone, ...) it can be easily removed.
You can always bring up the quiet.
You can always get rid of hum.
You can never get rid of overmodulation.
So shoot for -12 to -6db live, and you will enjoy a life of comfort and leisure.
pat
:-)
P.S. I should mention that we do compress live, but that is at live events. The board feed is recorded, though, so the above still stands.
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