On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:18:57AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 23:40:50 Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > One poster mentioned foh use. What functionality would be > > required in that case ? Note that it's generally a bad > > idea to drive a PA system to its limits. > > That was me:-) > > Me dreamiest dream is something like that (given hardware that has the needed > inputs and outputs (which I have:-P ) ): > > Some kind of PA-managment that does: > a.1) Frequency-X-over and EQ (and phase and that) > a.2) If EQ is to simple nowadays (as some Fons guy tells me:), sophisticated > digital filters... > b) Multiband-compressor (one per output or with independant frequency ranges) > and limiters for the outputs. > c) Automatic (and live!) comparison of the input signal that is routed to the > outputs and the signal from one or more measurement microphones to adapt to > the room with only a mouse-click. And to re-adapt to the room when the crowd > is in. > d) Feedback-destroyer (which will probably be hard to do while c) is running > its adaption. > > And of course nice spec-views like in japa and as low as possible builtin > delay. > > Sounds almost to easy, does it? :-) > I know a local DJ event where the sound guy just crushes the mixer output before the mains. I've seen board tapes of the event, and it's just a big black squiggly bloc-- everything within like 95% of max. It sure is loud. Dancers love it. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
