Re: Are automixers noisy??

On Oct 3, 12:00 pm, Larry Fisher <lectroson...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

the user interfaces are not suitable for sound mixing.

-Not yet, anyway! But certainly this is an idea whose time has come.
LecNet could be a great deal more powerful control-wise than it
currently is - but it seems that Lectro would rather leave the
interface designing up to Crestron and AMX. But to your credit,
LecNet's remote control protocol is public information. This seems to
be a rare virtue! Zaxcom, Aaton and Sound Devices are seeing fit to
keep their remote protocols a secret - I imagine in order to sell
their hardware.
Last year we (Peter Schneider and I) jury-rigged a Lemur control
surface to dynamically route signal within one of the DM-series boxes
in a desperate bid to make it possible for one individual watching six
video feeds to prepare six simultaneous mixes to the six different
video cameras. In this circumstance, your box was the only workable
solution - trying to accomplish this within the Dugan insert-point
paradigm would have been very expensive and complicated. What we ended
up with wasn't flawless, but it did the job. I understand that Peter's
doing it again this year.
My beef with the DM was its noise floor, but perhaps we weren't
optimizing the automixing parameters properly. It didn't sound as
awesome as the Dugan to my ears, but I realize that architecturally
these are two fundamentally different machines that are designed to do
two very different things, respectively. The Lectro automixer seems
designed to minimize feedback within the context of an amplified
boardroom meeting. The Dugan, on the other hand, seems designed to mix
for broadcast. But from what I gather the basic automixing algorithm
is much the same between these two machines!
In any event, there is a precedent for the broadcast application
of Lectro products that were never originally intended or designed to
do so, and just as the Venue system has evolved to fulfill the needs
of these off-label applications I would like to see the DM/LecNet
series follow suit. For instance, it would be a simple step to
integrate Venue radio receivers feeding an automixing matrix within a
single chassis, with either a local or remote control or both. Why
not? Even if no adjustments were made to the current DM sound quality
this would still be a powerful IFB router for large, complicated
reality production.
Again, just throwing thoughts at the wall.
.

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