Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Tom Duffy" data-source="post: 114963" data-attributes="member: 6627">Re: New QSC Product - TouchMixAs always, there is a cheap way to do this and a good way to do this, but not a cheap and good way.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can certainly design down to ~$2 per channel, but you&#039;re going to miss out on performance parameters such as:Dynamic range when mic pre level is low (because everything is an attentuation)inaudible gain steps on zero crossings.Small analog gain steps.&nbsp;&nbsp; (to do cheap you have to have large analog steps with digital trim automatically applied in between - see what happens when you turn the gain up, you&#039;ll see a blip as the analog and digital gains have to change instantly together, but can&#039;t).On the X-32, Behringer staff actually described it here:<a href="http://forum.behringer.com/showthread.php?560-Another-Gain-value-on-X32-and-S16" target="_blank">Another Gain value on X32 and S16</a>THAT&#039;s solution brought the average cost per channel down from $10 to around $5 for the unquestionable &quot;good&quot; side, but to go lower you will see compromises.Tom (TASCAM)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tom Duffy, post: 114963, member: 6627"] Re: New QSC Product - TouchMix As always, there is a cheap way to do this and a good way to do this, but not a cheap and good way. You can certainly design down to ~$2 per channel, but you're going to miss out on performance parameters such as: Dynamic range when mic pre level is low (because everything is an attentuation) inaudible gain steps on zero crossings. Small analog gain steps. (to do cheap you have to have large analog steps with digital trim automatically applied in between - see what happens when you turn the gain up, you'll see a blip as the analog and digital gains have to change instantly together, but can't). On the X-32, Behringer staff actually described it here: [URL="http://forum.behringer.com/showthread.php?560-Another-Gain-value-on-X32-and-S16"]Another Gain value on X32 and S16[/URL] THAT's solution brought the average cost per channel down from $10 to around $5 for the unquestionable "good" side, but to go lower you will see compromises. Tom (TASCAM) [/QUOTE]

Verification