Subject: Re: Linux PA WAS [linux-audio-user] More Mandrake 9.2 fine tuning...Dell latitude live fx box
From: Paul Winkler (pw_lists_AT_slinkp.com)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 20:34:56 EET
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:14:01AM -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> > Phase 4: Add software to help analyze a room and set up EQs, etc.
Personally I think automagic room EQ is not really practical.
The best it can do is take a good-sounding sound system in
a bad-sounding room, and turn it into a bad-sounding system
in a bad-sounding room :-)
> Obviously the lack of ins/outs here is the first issue...unless using
> RME or Echo Layla or similar and then only like, 8 inputs...
If PCI is an option, two Delta 1010s would give you 16 analog and
4 spdif channels.
RME options give you a lot more channels.
> On standard
> cards the headroom specs might be an issue on inputs before distortion.
24 bits is a lot of dynamic range, you should be able to leave
plenty of headroom.
> > Here's some use cases for an ideal world after all this is set up.
> >
> > 1. One sound engineer mixes house and monitors for a club band.
> > He's up on stage listening to the monitor mix and adjusting it with a
> > PDA over a wireless network :-)
>
> Love this idea!!!
How the heck is he going to judge the front-of-house sound without
being in the house?
I don't think this is practical.
> > 2. Two separate engineers for house and monitors. Everything is
> > routed through one computer (or a cluster) to multiple controllers
> > (as opposed to analog splitters they now use). The monitor engineer
> > has a controller and builds the monitor mix. The FOH engineer has a
> > controller to manage the FOH mix.
that would be cool :-)
> > 3. Multiple computer setup. Headless processor that takes all
> > inputs and outputs and does all processors. Laptop controllers that
> > do the GUIs. For that matter, the processor box(es) wouldn't even
> > need to be running X. It could be controlled via networking.
> > Everything is fault-tolerant.
oh yeah :-)
btw, big touring shows are already using computers.
Digital Performer got some press out of being used on a Madonna
tour for all the sound cues, prerecorded loops, MIDI control of
lighting, etc. They didn't run the whole mix through it
but i'm sure that day will come.
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