On 12 August 2012 02:47, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This is completely sick. Any audio engineer trying to >> use a mixer that way would (and should) be fired for >> gross incompetence - immediately. > > Argument by authority, nice. Care to elaborate? (Sorry to anyone who > is sick of PA, but for once I'm seeing the chance to learn something > from one of these threads ;-)). > > If the problem is too complex to explain in layman terms, that's > understandable. However, is the problem one that would be unacceptable > in a professional setting (e.g. a recording studio, ...) as it would > cause subtle issues. Or is it a problem that I should be able to > observe on my crappy speakers at home? If so, what am I listening for? > How would I go about reproducing it? > > Cheers, > > Tom One of my friends is an amateur musician. He told me about some problems that makes PA unusable for his work. First, it is having unpredictable latencies and size of buffers. And the second one was similar to the question – it was having one master channels instead of many mixers provided by card. I don't remember the exact reasons why it was bad though. I think it has something to do with small changes in the audio signal that may be raised by the connected equipment. Lukas
