On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:34, Paul Winkler wrote: > 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. mmm...And the consumer version is relatively cheap huh?? I might try this... > > > 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. True dat!! :) I was thinking this would be kick a$$ for adjusting monitors when they need to be Eq'd from FOH...as in No seperate monitor mixing console. I have had to do this a million times and the footwork was a pain in a big house! > > > > 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.
