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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 116853" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Using Waves Dugan with X-32The proper way to think about the &quot;Dugan&quot; algorithm is as a microphone gain sharing method, that simply shares the effective gain of one microphone input at full gain, between as many microphones happen to be receiving active input at any instant. This gain sharing occurs dynamically as the relative input levels change.&nbsp; This is extremely useful for managing gain before feedback during panel discussions or when multiple people, speaking into multiple microphones, need to be managed seamlessly.&nbsp; Mixing music is a completely different animal, and while I predict that there could be some other useful control algorithms developed, Dugan IMO is mainly a speech for mutliple talking heads (not the band &quot;talking heads&quot;) application. FWIW the basic automatic mixing technology could be integrated into a digital mixer quite inexpensively. All the hardware is already there so it&#039;s just a slightly different software layer on top of the basic function. The Dugan hardware product is relatively expensive (I designed an 8 channel analog Automatic Mixer that Peavey sold for around $500).&nbsp; I can not comment on the Waves plug-in from first hand experience but this does not appear to be a budget solution either, unless in comparison to the Dugan hardware. The Dugan products have many fans among professional users, because they work well in their intended applications, and apparently the professional budgets can tolerate the price point.&nbsp; JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 116853, member: 126"] Re: Using Waves Dugan with X-32 The proper way to think about the "Dugan" algorithm is as a microphone gain sharing method, that simply shares the effective gain of one microphone input at full gain, between as many microphones happen to be receiving active input at any instant. This gain sharing occurs dynamically as the relative input levels change. This is extremely useful for managing gain before feedback during panel discussions or when multiple people, speaking into multiple microphones, need to be managed seamlessly. Mixing music is a completely different animal, and while I predict that there could be some other useful control algorithms developed, Dugan IMO is mainly a speech for mutliple talking heads (not the band "talking heads") application. FWIW the basic automatic mixing technology could be integrated into a digital mixer quite inexpensively. All the hardware is already there so it's just a slightly different software layer on top of the basic function. The Dugan hardware product is relatively expensive (I designed an 8 channel analog Automatic Mixer that Peavey sold for around $500). I can not comment on the Waves plug-in from first hand experience but this does not appear to be a budget solution either, unless in comparison to the Dugan hardware. The Dugan products have many fans among professional users, because they work well in their intended applications, and apparently the professional budgets can tolerate the price point. JR [/QUOTE]

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