Re: Depends on the ballistics of your metering System.

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In Reply to: Depends on the ballistics of your metering System. posted by RBP on May 31, 2001 at 23:42:29:

Only point I would have to add, is that most mixers have maximum output of between 16 & 22db above 0db. In order to get your maximum dynamic range, (which on most mixers is about 80db), you need to be letting your peaks get fairly close to this margin. It gets to be even more of an issue, particulary with rock music, where due to compression and (in the case of analogue) tape saturation most of the peaks have been knocked on the head. I agree with RBP that BBC style PPM's can in many cases be one of the best systems to meter on, especially in mastering situations, but unless you are planning to do yourself serious long term hearing impairment I would suggest that these issues are all rather accademic. Remember with the exception of live PA work, studio monitoring is going to be fed off the control room pot, so the level showing on the output meters is irrelevant to the monitoring. In a PA situation the sound will be fed to the active crossover and graphics, most of which (if they are at all decent) have trim pots on the input to match the levels.
In a PA situation (although it does depend on the desk being used, ie individual meter ballistics) I would be unhappy if the level was reading much over 0-3db as an average, this is assuming that its a rock/pop gig. If you need to reduce the level here, I would then use the master faders. Gain structure on the individual channels is important, as the sound on a channel changes if its not used at its correct gain, this is in addition to its obviously poorer noise performance.
Roland

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Topic - Question on gain structure... - Nolat 20:49:19 05/31/01 (6)

Re: Question on gain structure... - RBP 21:06:19 05/31/01 (5)

Re: Question on gain structure... - Nolat 22:57:03 05/31/01 (4)

Depends on the ballistics of your metering System. - RBP 23:42:29 05/31/01 (3)

Re: Depends on the ballistics of your metering System. - Roland 20:03:14 06/01/01 (2)

Re: Depends on the ballistics of your metering System. - Blade 22:02:36 06/05/01 (1)

Re: Depends on the ballistics of your metering System. - Roland 18:11:10 06/06/01 (0)

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Re: Depends on the ballistics of your metering System. - Roland 20:03:14 06/01/01 (2)

Re: Depends on the ballistics of your metering System. - Blade 22:02:36 06/05/01 (1)

Re: Depends on the ballistics of your metering System. - Roland 18:11:10 06/06/01 (0)

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