[Tynan AgviÐr]

Ian Thompson-Bell wrote in news:fmr5gn$1qv9$1
@energise.enta.net:

Tynan AgviÐr wrote:
Yall still alive? I was enjoying the high output of posts, seeing
ideas
bounce back and forth, but it seems to have slowed to a crawl.

Everyone ok?
Mr. Graham, Mr. Ian, Mr. Byrns, Rudy, Iain?

Yes, we're still here. As Rudy said, once the basic spec is laid out
its
a question of some serious thinking and scribbling time.

There is however, one question I wanted to ask. I notice on the devices
you cited as having the right sort of interface that they basically had
a single rotary control for the level/gain of each channel perhaps with
a small number of switches to broadly set the gain. Is this the sort of
interface you like/prefer/are used to? I ask because us old pro mixer
designers like Graham and I are more used to seeing stepped gain
controls that operate in 5 or 10dB steps over a wide gain range and I
am
sure you have seen the posts where we have mentioned this. However,
designing such stepped gain controls is pretty hard with tubes. An
alternative method, similar to the devices you cited, would have a
small
number of pre-selectable gains with the channel rotary acting as a sort
of fine gain control. The advantage of this is that it is a much
simpler
topology for a tube based mixer and I know you are a fellow adherent of
the KISS principle.

Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers

Ian


Hey Sir, yes, I do like stepped gain, (5dB steps are quite nice).., but I
have worked all ways, including with *one* setting fixed gain systems
(nightmare). The pre selectable gain idea with fine tuning is a fantastic
idea. I actually enjoy working with limitations as it forces me to know
my stuff(like the engineers from the golden days had to). The wendt was
a reference for overall features that I would like included, but not
necessarily a blueprint for *how* I would want them implemented. How did
the old neve consoles/desks implement these things?