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[Dirt_Rock]

Hey people
Just wondering how much a difference a summing amp will make to the mix process?  :

[Jester_Fu]

Depends if there's summing wrong with ya mix

[Dirt_Rock]

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Depends if there's summing wrong with ya mix

ahh yep I see what your doing there!

clever!

no really i pissed my self laughing when i first read that.

[Jester_Fu]

They use 'summing amplifiers' in any standard analogue desk to combine the multiple channels into fewer channels. It's a weighted sum, with the fader and active electronics in the desk weighting the sum. The better a manufacturer designs their summing circuit... typically the better the desk. SSL and Neve have good reputations for it, for example.

Summing is just the engineering term to describe the mathematical model that represents the circuit. You can also use op-amps (etc.) to build subraction, division and multiplication. You can also build derivative and integral circuits using electronics - it's how they built the first computers. All analogue and very fast... they could only do one type of calculation at a time, though.

As for the digital world, there's lots of different ways to do it... one of which is to use the mathematical model of a summing circuit to achieve the mixdown (might be where you've read the term). If you were to model, say, a Neve circuit, then you could simulat a Neve desk in the digital domain... and have it sound 'more analogue'... which seems to please poeople these days.

[niktu]

...now that's summing to think about.




couldn't help myself

[rhythmboy]

Are we sure we're not talking about amplifying sums?

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I wish I had summing to contribute to this thread.

[Jester_Fu]

/thread now about making bad puns.

[ehsan]

That just doesn't add up.

[Jester_Fu]

You're going to divide the community with comments like that.

[ehsan]

Dude, get rooted.

[Jester_Fu]

I think you have trouble differentiating between comments that could add to your online experience and those that sum to outrage.

You, sir, are a fraction of the man I thought you to be.

[ehsan]

Well I think you're being singularly obtuse which will profoundly subtract from your awesomeness as a whole.

While I am partial to these derivative functions, I do find it odd and it's not exactly an even match.

So I'll have to wind up decimalating your argument, and frankly this subsets me.

[ehsan]

You're trying hard arncha cunt. ;D

[Jester_Fu]

While the beat may have an occassional antinode, you are an integral part of life and a sine of our times.

While I regret your perspective, the probability of this discussion degrading into a mathematical tirade is exponentially increasing with each post. While simultaneously trying to be witty and inciteful, we are failingin the most base of persuits - the integral combination of asynchronous waves to produce beating.

The antinode is a strong force with you, but the permutations of mathematicals terms within my range will render your febile melbcuntian mind useless

[ehsan]

;D

I know it's tangential but my mate can't stand fiction, it has to be factorial get up and leave.

[Jester_Fu]

You're nothing but a conjoined function. In fact, the composite of your rhetoric is perpendicular to my union of factorial arguments.

[Captain Terrific]

posting in epic pun thread

[Spectrum]

;D

[Jester_Fu]

You guys need to step outside the matrix and reflect on your eigenvalues.