On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:45:39PM +0100, Dan Mills wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 00:04 +0200, fons@email-addr-hidden 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 Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Fri Aug 13 04:15:05 2010
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Fri Aug 13 2010 - 04:15:05 EEST