Yeah - can you name some venues that do this? I want to know which ones to avoid!
On Oct 13, 2012, at 12:43 PM, David Pickett wrote: > 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? 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
