Application examples
Drums/snare drum
Exercise caution when setting levels to avoid clipping. Drums are notorious for fast, powerful transients that can easily add 10 dB to the average level. In addition, few drummers (or any musicians, for that matter) are so disciplined that they don‘t play louder during a take or concert than they do during sound check. Experiment to see whether or not you like the sound of the tube stage and in what proportion. It‘s definitely a good idea to use peak limiting to protect converters and/or other equip- ment and prevent unwanted distortion (see “Limiter”, page 20). In FET mode, the limiter may be more audible than you‘d like it to be when used on drums.
Bass drum
Here pretty much the same applies as for snare drum. The peak limiter may tend to accentuate the attack or “click” of the bass drum, which can lead to undesirable sound variations with less disciplined drummers.
Toms
Level setting is not quite as critical with toms. Moderate use of the FET limiter will provide pleasant yet effective leveling.
Overheads
Using the tube stage on overheads can give the entire drum set extra punch and
22 | GainStation 8 |
