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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 114593" data-attributes="member: 162"><p>Re: GLD80 Discussion</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hi Ryan - welcome to the forum. Generally speaking, a VCA/DCA is like a remote control hand that turns the channel faders for channels assigned to the VCA/DCA up or down. The difference between a VCA/DCA and a subgroup is that a VCA/DCA will also control post-fade sends, which is a benefit in some situations. Conversely, audio doesn't flow through a VCA/DCA, so if you want to do things like group equalization or dynamics processing, you need to use a group.</p><p></p><p>Specifically as implemented on the GLD, there is no such thing as a mute group - that function is implemented by DCAs. If you wish to disable the volume adjustment function and use a DCA simply to mute a group of channels, there is a function called I believe "set fader to 0" which locks the fader so that volume control is disabled.</p><p></p><p>As Max indicated, matrices are basically a mixer where the input channels are busses. An application example would be front fills, where you may want to send your group (would need to be a group and not a DCA in this scenario) of vocals to the fills, but not drums or guitars, due to there already being too much stage volume.</p><p></p><p>I generally agree with Max that learning how to mix on a digital board is roughly the same amount of work as learning to mix on an analog board. It's the difference between taking high school French and high school Spanish. Once you learn it though, you'll never go back to an analog board - particularly since you're using one of the most flexible, feature-packed boards out there. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Edit: One more clarification - there are actually 3 different functions that you may be confusing:</p><p>- Mute group - on an analog board, this is a button that will mute all channels assigned to that mute group. As mentioned above, the GLD does not have a direct replacement for this function.</p><p>- Sub group - on an analog board, this is an intermediate grouping of the audio of channels assigned, for purposes of processing a group of things similarly - EQ, compression, etc. Audio flows through this. Changes to the sub group fader will affect the main channel output, however turning down the group fader or muting the sub group have no effect on post-fade auxes.</p><p>- DCA - on an analog board this is called a VCA. As described above, the DCA actually acts as a remote control for the faders of the assigned channels, and does affect post-fade auxes. On the GLD, this function replaces Mute Groups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 114593, member: 162"] Re: GLD80 Discussion Hi Ryan - welcome to the forum. Generally speaking, a VCA/DCA is like a remote control hand that turns the channel faders for channels assigned to the VCA/DCA up or down. The difference between a VCA/DCA and a subgroup is that a VCA/DCA will also control post-fade sends, which is a benefit in some situations. Conversely, audio doesn't flow through a VCA/DCA, so if you want to do things like group equalization or dynamics processing, you need to use a group. Specifically as implemented on the GLD, there is no such thing as a mute group - that function is implemented by DCAs. If you wish to disable the volume adjustment function and use a DCA simply to mute a group of channels, there is a function called I believe "set fader to 0" which locks the fader so that volume control is disabled. As Max indicated, matrices are basically a mixer where the input channels are busses. An application example would be front fills, where you may want to send your group (would need to be a group and not a DCA in this scenario) of vocals to the fills, but not drums or guitars, due to there already being too much stage volume. I generally agree with Max that learning how to mix on a digital board is roughly the same amount of work as learning to mix on an analog board. It's the difference between taking high school French and high school Spanish. Once you learn it though, you'll never go back to an analog board - particularly since you're using one of the most flexible, feature-packed boards out there. :) Edit: One more clarification - there are actually 3 different functions that you may be confusing: - Mute group - on an analog board, this is a button that will mute all channels assigned to that mute group. As mentioned above, the GLD does not have a direct replacement for this function. - Sub group - on an analog board, this is an intermediate grouping of the audio of channels assigned, for purposes of processing a group of things similarly - EQ, compression, etc. Audio flows through this. Changes to the sub group fader will affect the main channel output, however turning down the group fader or muting the sub group have no effect on post-fade auxes. - DCA - on an analog board this is called a VCA. As described above, the DCA actually acts as a remote control for the faders of the assigned channels, and does affect post-fade auxes. On the GLD, this function replaces Mute Groups. [/QUOTE]
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