What do you set your limiter at?

[Eric Shepherd]

Definitely a mild compressor before limiting is a good idea. I mentioned that above. So there's a nice curve, instead of just a dead stop at the brick wall, or an overload into clipping.
-Eric

[Alessandro Machi]

Originally Posted by Douglas Spotted Eagle

..........At the end of the day, you want to saturate *any* digital recording with as much audio as possible. You can be less picky with 20bit or 24bit, yet you'll still want hot signals. Noise is still audio whether it's 24 bit or 8 bit. It just happens to be more accurate noise in a 24bit stream. :-)

Wow, I recall having a similar discussion about video, that 4:1:1 may have a "cleaner signal" than betacam sp but not necessarily better because the video noise in betacam sp is could be considered "accurate noise" as well.

[Marco Leavitt]

For those using compressors, can you recommend one that's small and battery operated? That would have really helped on a shoot we did over the weekend.