[tapani]

I realize I can put a compressor in the signal chain, but is there a simple quality limiter which would not mess the signal chain too much?

Or maybe you guys try to 'ride' the rotary input knob?

I do it with faders, but have any of you developed a good touch to riding the mbox rotary level input knob?

Is there an Mbox compatible control surface with good faders?

Any other suggestions? The singer in question does sudden volume changes. Otherwise I would record the loud bits separately.

How about recording to two channels (using two mics or a Y cable) at the same time with differing input levels? One loud for the quiet bits and not caring about distortion or spittiness and the other channel quiter and later combining them?

tapani