can 1000s handle a strong signal?

i've been using a boss sp-303 for 4 years now, and just decided to get the 505 to upgrade. there are specific things i love about the 303, which is why i didn't go over to mpc or something else.

just about all of the samples i cut are from a very old reel to reel field production machine that produces a decent bit of noise. when recording into the 303, i can turn the reel to reel volume up very high, while turning the record level almost all the way down on the sampler, and the result is virtually no noise in the sample. this doesn't work with the 505, though, as turning the source volume up, even while keeping the recording level down on the sampler, makes the audio way too distorted. so the only way to avoid the distortion is to turn the reel to reel way down, and the result is noisy samples.

the 505 is so much better to work with, but if it can't record intense signals, it's basically useless to me.

so i'm going to the mpc1000. i've heard that the mpcs have awesome converters, so should i be alright?

tobacco wrote: i've heard that the mpcs have awesome converters, so should i be alright?

oh $hit........

I just wet my pants

Yeah the 1000 will be fine to record hot signals.

MPC = CD quallity

tobacco wrote:
the 505 is so much better to work with, but if it can't record intense signals, it's basically useless to me.

Could you sample on the 303 and then bring your nice clean samples over to the 505? Granted, there are some extra steps, but you can save yourself some money with just a little more work.

no, for some reason, it throws glitches into the samples now, so i can only use the 303 as an effects unit.

my computer's soundcard can't handle the hot signal, so that's not an option, either.

it almost doesn't make sense, but that's why i've used the 303 for so long...