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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 7513" data-attributes="member: 24">While I was working with individual bands as a BE and using my own mic package, I found that in a festival setting I could get the gain of one mic by metering, set the rest relative to that, bring up the faders and have a workable mix.Recently, I have been doing more one offs, in a bar setting where an extensive soundcheck would be distracting to the dinner crowd. I have been line checking using meters and headphones. SMAART spectrograph on my que bus adds even more frequency dependent information. Just prior to show time, we bring up the house and monitors for a quick last check. Once again, a good line check results in a workable mix.So my current thought: Mixing is about control of gain structure.That gain structure should be considered as both dependent and independent of frequency, and should include all processing such as dynamics and effects, but it just comes down to gain structure.Some people may not like that because it reduces the amount of the process that might be considered &quot;art&quot;, and I will probably hear the&nbsp; usual lines about &quot;mixing with your eyes&quot;, but I am also pretty sure that poor gain structure is likely to result in a good mix.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 7513, member: 24"] While I was working with individual bands as a BE and using my own mic package, I found that in a festival setting I could get the gain of one mic by metering, set the rest relative to that, bring up the faders and have a workable mix. Recently, I have been doing more one offs, in a bar setting where an extensive soundcheck would be distracting to the dinner crowd. I have been line checking using meters and headphones. SMAART spectrograph on my que bus adds even more frequency dependent information. Just prior to show time, we bring up the house and monitors for a quick last check. Once again, a good line check results in a workable mix. So my current thought: Mixing is about control of gain structure. That gain structure should be considered as both dependent and independent of frequency, and should include all processing such as dynamics and effects, but it just comes down to gain structure. Some people may not like that because it reduces the amount of the process that might be considered "art", and I will probably hear the usual lines about "mixing with your eyes", but I am also pretty sure that poor gain structure is likely to result in a good mix. [/QUOTE]

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