AW: Compressing Modulars?

[Haible Juergen]

Romeo,

I know it's just my opinion, but I try to use as few compressors on
electronic 
instruments as possible.
Your *Modular* synth is too loud ??
Well, you have the core of a compressor, a VCA, at the end of your
Modular's signal path anyway. So why messing the signals up with 
another VCA (the compressor's) ? All you need is the right CV for your
Synth's VCA. Does the Sustain pot of your envelopes have linear or
logatithmic response? The VCA itself: linear or exponential?
I'm asking this because the *input* level of your average synth VCA is
most probably quite limited anyway (speaking of otas - not of "pro"
vca's like dbx chips etc.). So the VCA CV may be the key to the
solution.

JH. 

	>I am in need of taming my modular a bit.  It's nice to have an
instrument
> with such a wide dynamic range, but unfortunately, the rest of my
> studio
> can't keep up with it.  Most of my recordings from the last few months
> are
> littered with harsh distortion because the behemoth pegged the levels.
> 
> Originally, I was running the mod into my mixer, and running the
> output of
> the mixer into a two channel compressor.  This didn't seem to help.
> If the
> modular peaked, it would distort the output of the mixer and the
> compressor
> couldn't help there.  I could run the mod into the compressor first,
> but I
> now have six channels of audio coming out of the mod into the mixer,
> which
> means more compressors.
> 
> That leads me to this question:  Would it make more sense to build a
> set of
> compressor modules, or should I just go and get myself a multichannel
> unit,
> such as the Behringer Multicom.  I want to keep the signal path as
> clean as
> possible.
> 
> Also, I am using a 16 channel Boss mixer.  I use it because it was all
> I
> could afford when I needed a mixer.  Would a Mackie be able to better
> handle the output of my modular?
> 
	>ROmeo