Re: [LAU] Who or What is the Mixer (and why titles matter)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 05.05.2010 18:08, schrieb J bz: Well, as you have pointed out your self: If there is a saxophonist, there has to be a mixerist. Harr harr,,,, but seriously: Mixing engineer would sound quite OK for me but may not be pretentious enough for the academic music-szene. In contemporary music terms like "electronic treatments" for mixing-operations seems to be established so what about electronic treatment operator remember also that it is not only the mixer and that there are very differnent sorts of mixers out there indeed. So if someone uses a 6-track phonic to mix the outputs of his/her USB-Interface should this be the same as if someone operates a 32-track automated Mackie with a battery of outboard-FX in the inserts? I saw a hmmm.... mixing operator(?) last year that played a tiny cheapo-console plus half a dozen delays, filters, sidechain-compressors etc producing most unusual sounds by manipulating hums, hiss and switching noises only. Again very much differnt compared with someone using a 20K-equipment to make 6 people playing instruments in a sophisticated way sound more interesting by introducing some fades and stereo-effects. In a word: I do not think, that a single word could describe that kind of playing music precisely in all its aspects. bes regs HZN