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Role Of The Mixing Desk
In article writes:
So the question I put to you lot is, how can one define this role in plain,
simple terms? "What is the main purpose of a mixing desk in a studio?"
To impress the visitors. They look at it and say "That has an awful
lot of knobs. Do you know what every one of them does?"
As to what its real role is, this depends on your perspective. If your
introduction to recording is a computer with a sound card, then it's
easy to see why you can't conceive of the need for a mixing console.
The computer does what the console does. In the live world, it takes
inputs from many sources, sometimes one or two at a time, sometimes a
whole lot a time (like when recording a band using separate
microphones on each instrument and voice) and mixes them as you
choose, then sends the mix or mixes out to different destinations -
recorders, monitors, headphones, signal processors, etc.
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I'm really Mike Rivers - )
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