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. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's NANO TURTLE! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
