[PD] Speaker protection abstraction

2008-12-01 Thread Spencer Russell
Most of my live performance work involves realtime processing of upright bass, and I find myself often using a lot of very short variable IIR taps (delays with feedback). I use either my 500-watt bass amp or the house PA as output. Right now I don't have any explicit patchage to make sure I'm

Re: [PD] Speaker protection abstraction

2008-12-01 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 08:50 -0500, Spencer Russell wrote: Are other people using speaker protection patches? Anything more sophisticated than the classic [hip~ 5] before the output? in what way more sophisticated? i found, that [hip~ 5] does a pretty decent job. roman

Re: [PD] Speaker protection abstraction

2008-12-01 Thread Andy Farnell
It's quite rare to find a sound card and amplification system that can actually deliver DC. These are usually specialised DACs for control applications. Regular audio equipment uses DC blocking capacitors (analogue high-pass) that won't admit anything much below 5-10Hz. All the same, if you

Re: [PD] Speaker protection abstraction

2008-12-01 Thread Luigi
Am 01.12.2008 um 15:21 schrieb Andy Farnell: It's quite rare to find a sound card and amplification system that can actually deliver DC. These are usually specialised DACs for control applications. Regular audio equipment uses DC blocking capacitors (analogue high-pass) that won't admit

Re: [PD] Speaker protection abstraction

2008-12-01 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Luigi wrote: Am 01.12.2008 um 15:21 schrieb Andy Farnell: This should be a separate piece of hardware, not part of the software system that could fail. Hi, yes thats my experienc, too. i agree. I tried to use limiter~, but wasnt satisfied. it created some crackles with extreme