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From: Denny Strauser on 18 Jun 2008 00:22 Tim Perry wrote: > Mike, for this I use an Aphex Compellor or a gated compressor set slow-med > attack, slow release to emulate one. The dubbers, video guys, TV or radio I also own a Compellor. It is great for recording or broadcast. As a leveler, it is very transparent. It has a 4 second attack time & 10 second release time. It's pretty expensive, though. I've used it live. It is so transparent that it is easy to keep turning the levels up, not realizing it until you're in the feedback range. I stopped taking it to my house gig because visiting soundmen continually had this problem, & subsequently hated it. Another thing visiting soundmen didn't like was that there is no threshold control. You have to jog the input & output gains to achieve the desired compression. "Old-school", and not very convenient. It has a feature (silence gate) that will freeze the leveler from releasing the compression when the signal drops to nothing. This is great when there is silence between songs, but not so great if there is patter between songs, which causes the compressor to open up. I've also used it to copy my favorite CD's (leveling the copies), so my walk-in/break music plays at a constant level. It is my favorite compressor for the whole mix. It is great for broadcast & recording. My above thoughts refer to the Leveling Mode. In the Compressor mode, it is still quite transparent, and equally inconvenient to adjust. -Denny
From: Tim Perry on 18 Jun 2008 04:27 "Mike Dobony" <sword(a)notasarian-host.net> wrote in message news:17rp5kdu49oo0.18igqid9d8rpe.dlg(a)40tude.net... > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:05:54 -0400, Tim Perry wrote: > > >> True, IF you have the time available to adjust afterwards. We don't. > >> > >> Mike D. > > > > Mike, for this I use an Aphex Compellor or a gated compressor set slow-med > > attack, slow release to emulate one. The dubbers, video guys, TV or radio > > guys I send to love it. > > > > I saw a stand-alone compressor around here somewhere that was not being > used. If I find it before the conference I might go ahead and use it. It > would be much better than the simple one on the DEQ. > > > The DEQ has lots of features and may work for this but I couldnt gaurentee > > it... I use one for main L/R and one for delay or mons. > > Lately I have been using Dynamic EQ to boost vocals on low passages. > > > > You will have to unlock stereo linking in utilities. You will lose the > > stereo width feature when you do this. > > I don't care about stereo. It is only speaking, so stereo has no benefit. When a dweeb with wireless walks in front of the speaker you can drop that one leaving the other up full. > I would Y out to the CD recorder unless it has a mono record feature. I > still haven't seen it.
From: Mike Dobony on 18 Jun 2008 08:52 On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:27:35 -0400, Tim Perry wrote: > "Mike Dobony" <sword(a)notasarian-host.net> wrote in message > news:17rp5kdu49oo0.18igqid9d8rpe.dlg(a)40tude.net... >> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:05:54 -0400, Tim Perry wrote: >> >>>> True, IF you have the time available to adjust afterwards. We don't. >>>> >>>> Mike D. >>> >>> Mike, for this I use an Aphex Compellor or a gated compressor set > slow-med >>> attack, slow release to emulate one. The dubbers, video guys, TV or > radio >>> guys I send to love it. >>> >> >> I saw a stand-alone compressor around here somewhere that was not being >> used. If I find it before the conference I might go ahead and use it. It >> would be much better than the simple one on the DEQ. >> >>> The DEQ has lots of features and may work for this but I couldnt > gaurentee >>> it... I use one for main L/R and one for delay or mons. >>> Lately I have been using Dynamic EQ to boost vocals on low passages. >>> >>> You will have to unlock stereo linking in utilities. You will lose the >>> stereo width feature when you do this. >> >> I don't care about stereo. It is only speaking, so stereo has no benefit. > > When a dweeb with wireless walks in front of the speaker you can drop that > one leaving the other up full. > Why do you call them a dweeb? A speaker who stays in one spot is a poor speaker. The best speakers are those who are involved with the audience and intersperse in the crowd. They draw the audience in by going to the audience. This involves going in front of speakers. You are way to biased towards music. Public speaking has a whole new set of rules. This is a greta application for the FBD.
From: Scott Dorsey on 18 Jun 2008 09:25 Mike Dobony <sword(a)notasarian-host.net> wrote: > >Why do you call them a dweeb? A speaker who stays in one spot is a poor >speaker. The best speakers are those who are involved with the audience >and intersperse in the crowd. They draw the audience in by going to the >audience. This involves going in front of speakers. You are way to biased >towards music. Public speaking has a whole new set of rules. This is a >greta application for the FBD. Because rule number one is that you NEVER walk in front of the speakers. If you want to move around and get with the audience, that's fine. But there are places where you don't go, and one of them is in front of the speakers. And if you DO go there, and it DOES feedback, you shouldn't be surprised and start glaring at the PA operator. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
From: Mike Dobony on 18 Jun 2008 10:14
On 18 Jun 2008 09:25:17 -0400, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Mike Dobony <sword(a)notasarian-host.net> wrote: >> >>Why do you call them a dweeb? A speaker who stays in one spot is a poor >>speaker. The best speakers are those who are involved with the audience >>and intersperse in the crowd. They draw the audience in by going to the >>audience. This involves going in front of speakers. You are way to biased >>towards music. Public speaking has a whole new set of rules. This is a >>greta application for the FBD. > > Because rule number one is that you NEVER walk in front of the speakers. > If you want to move around and get with the audience, that's fine. But > there are places where you don't go, and one of them is in front of the > speakers. And if you DO go there, and it DOES feedback, you shouldn't be > surprised and start glaring at the PA operator. > --scott Okay, how do you get to the audience without occasionally getting in front of the speakers? Yes, you need to stay a few feet away, but you still need to get in front of the speakers. |