13 Aug
2010
13 Aug
'10
1:19 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:45:39PM +0100, Dan Mills wrote:
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 00:04 +0200,
fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
That is what I meant with 'good technical and practical reasons'
(in the part of my post you did not quote).
Ciao,
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FA
There are three of them, and Alleline.
What an EQ is supposed to do doesn't in any
way depend on the
signal level. As long as you don't have any non-linear things
in the signal chain (dynamics and some effects) it doesn't
matter where you do the EQ.
Except that pre fade aux sends are typically tapped off post EQ by
default, so (at least in an analogue console) you need the EQ pre fader
to give a point that is post EQ but pre fader for feeding any aux sends
switched to 'pre'.
Also, you want the fader as close to the mix bus as you can get it so
that the self noise of the channel strip is attenuated by the fader (and
possibly the mute switch) rather then having the noise contribution from
48 sets of EQ always present on the output (even when only one or two
channels are routed).