On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:45:39PM +0100, Dan Mills wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 00:04 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > > What an EQ is supposed to do doesn't in any way depend on the > > signal level. As long as you don't have any non-linear things > > in the signal chain (dynamics and some effects) it doesn't > > matter where you do the EQ. > > Except that pre fade aux sends are typically tapped off post EQ by > default, so (at least in an analogue console) you need the EQ pre fader > to give a point that is post EQ but pre fader for feeding any aux sends > switched to 'pre'. > Also, you want the fader as close to the mix bus as you can get it so > that the self noise of the channel strip is attenuated by the fader (and > possibly the mute switch) rather then having the noise contribution from > 48 sets of EQ always present on the output (even when only one or two > channels are routed).
That is what I meant with 'good technical and practical reasons' (in the part of my post you did not quote). Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
