Month: June 2019

Don’t Phase Me Bro: Do Double-Patched Channels and Aux-Fed Subs Cause Phase Issues?

Don’t Phase Me Bro: Do Double-Patched Channels and Aux-Fed Subs Cause Phase Issues?

The practice of double-patching channels is more common than ever due to modern consoles with high channel counts, but it’s not a recent innovation: a long-standing technique when mixing monitors from front of house has been to use a “Y” cable to split key inputs like lead vocal, which allows the operator to have independent …

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The Hand You’re Dealt

The Hand You’re Dealt

Theater retrofit. Actually a retrofit of a retrofit of a retrofit. Concert hall designed for acoustic transmission, hideous six-horned center cluster added in the 80s, replaced a decade ago with a modern L/R “line array” system and a center sub, and today’s job is to install a pair of flown fills to handle the coverage …

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