[PLUG-AV] Plugs Mixer

[Euan]

Agreed, the audiogram looks ok, enough inputs, unfortunately there is no pan (or balance), which is quite an oversight - it forces us to either sum everything to mono, or accept our two mics forced hard right and left.

I generally keep the main speaker/presenter centered, and pan the audience questions left a bit to give some perspective - I know we then render everything down to mono in the video, but it would be good to retain a nice stereo image as we move to higher quality video. (What about 5.1 ?)

As to levels, the clip indicator is there, and we really should be trying to visualise the levels in software so we get a good view post processing. Something for gstswitch to implement?

Regards,

Euan.



On 20 April 2015 4:57:02 pm AWST, Leon Wright <techman83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Not sure, I was a little too flustered about presenting to be hugely
>useful
>:P
>
>Our use case is in fact not all that catered for and IMO the beringer
>covers the big events nicely. However it's not providing a good
>replication
>point for other lugs, because to the unitiated all those knobs are
>overwhelming.
>
>I think on the hack day, we should have a play around with Audio. It's
>been
>the pain point at the conferences (including 2015) and often a pain
>point
>at our smaller events.
>
>http://doodle.com/wch92hf34r35ydva#table
>
>I actually think the feature set of the AudioGram 6 is close to what is
>required for most things:
>
>http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/562186-REG/Yamaha_AUDIOGRAM6_AUDIOGRAM6_USB_Computer_Based.html
>
>Multi Channel, with a built in compressor. It doesn't have good
>indication
>of levels and I don't know how good the compressor is.
>
>Leon
>
>--
>DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
>
># cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
>Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!
>
>On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Euan <euan at dekock.net> wrote:
>
>> Really strange - was the usb connected during the power cycles? Maybe
>the
>> laptop was doing something strange to it.
>>
>> Not too sure where we want to go with a replacement, smaller usb
>devices
>> are generally designed for home studios, and don't have the mixing
>> features, while smaller mixers don't normally have usb.
>>
>> Unfortunately our use case is not well catered for. Maybe we should
>look
>> at separating capture and mixing...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Euan
>>
>>
>> On 19 April 2015 10:01:17 pm AWST, Leon Wright <techman83 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> We should totally look at units as a precursor to suggesting LA
>upgrade
>>> the conference ones. Having something proven and tested would be
>excellent.
>>>
>>> We should gather up requirements at the hack day.
>>> On 19/04/2015 9:58 pm, "Jason Nicholls" <jason at mindsocket.com.au>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Really strange since we power cycled it multiple times - but good
>>>> nonetheless since it's much better than feeding analogue audio into
>the
>>>> laptop...
>>>>
>>>> It would be good to get a minimal unit though, no real need for
>PLUG to
>>>> have so many channels on the mixer and smaller would be easier for
>>>> transport.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Leon Wright <techman83 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Team,
>>>>>
>>>>> It works! Not sure what it was doing the other night, but plugged
>it in
>>>>> and it all lit up. Put some music through it etc. The user manual
>has no
>>>>> useful "It means this, when it does that" section and only found
>people
>>>>> with RMAs on google from my brief looking.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it's just the curse of PLUG recording their own AV Talks.
>All
>>>>> things considered the audio through the microphone jack was pretty
>good.
>>>>>
>>>>> We might have to think about a replacement down the track, but
>>>>> hopefully it was just a momentary freak out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Leon
>>>>> --
>>>>> DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
>>>>>
>>>>> # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
>>>>> Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jason Nicholls
>>>> jason at mindsocket.com.au
>>>> 0430 314 857
>>>>
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