> At 05:51 13/10/2012, Dave Hunt wrote: > >>I have long been dubious of the common practice of turning all PA >>amplifiers up to full and doing all level adjustments prior to that, >>often at the mixer. This increases the gain of system noise, hums >>etc. It can also mean that the mixer is working at a fairly low >>level, bad enough with analogue mixers but worse with digital ones as >>the final D/A conversion then throws away the highest bits. > > Why would anyone do that?
Because the knobs on the amp's are at the other end of the room (or if not there, it would mean bending one's back). Not a justification, just an explanation. (See Jörn's posts of long ago about 'all channels panned to centre'. I got upbraided once, when I got caught, for panning a stereo recording to left and to right, rather than 'mixing it' . . . 'like wat one is meant to do' ;-(> The client is, of course, always right ... ) Michael > The only sensible thing is to operate the > console at its optimum level and then provide whatever amplification > is necessary to turn that into sound at the desired level. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
