On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:19:33AM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: > The big issue with having the full 144dB range is that the "business" > end of the slider is all at the top,
I've never seen a real fader that has any practical resolution below -80 dB: the next tick, 5mm or so down, is 'Off'. And most don't even go down that much. > Since the goal of input monitoring is to record as much signal as > possible w/o clipping, the peak-metering makes sense for the inputs, > but the suggested signal ranges don't. On an individual track, I'm > not sure I'd want to leave a 3dB "red zone" based on reading the > peak-values from the audio stream. Right. For recording you'd better leave a margin of 15 dB or so. Increasing the recorded level (assuming your software records 24 bit or floats) is not going to improve your S/N ratio at all -it is determined by the preamp, not by the level on the 'tape'. > Maybe this kind of metering and cue-routing doesn't exist on any of > the hundreds of boards Fons has used, but it's certainly present on > all the Mackie's (and many DJ mixers) I've used, .... so it's somewhat > expected "home studio" and "small studio" functionality -- and the > ice1712's target market. I hope that nobody is going to use the soundcard's mixer to do a real mixdown - not if you have software like Ardour. The purpose of the soundcard's mixer is to provide monitoring while laying tracks, and function performed on a real mixer by the AUX busses. I never have seen a mixer that has solo on the AUX busses. For this kind of monitoring and this card you have two options: one stereo monitor, or two mono ones. For the first you'd want panpots. For the second you'd want two separte gains. The compromise is what I proposed: one gain control and just L and R buttons instead of full panning. This works well in both cases. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
