[sdiy] Dumb mixer circuit question

Harry Bissell Jr harrybissell at prodigy.net
Fri Oct 6 18:56:16 CEST 2006


I'd imaginr that even 10% mismatch from
the pot values would be pretty hard to
hear.

Some of the architectures would be absolutely
accurate at the full-on and full-off positions...
and inbetween you MUST adjust by ear...

H^) harry

--- Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk> wrote:

> Harry Bissell Jr wrote:
> > --- Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >   
> >> The disadvantage I can think of is that the
> >> tolerance between different 
> >> pots is likely a lot worse than 1% when using a
> >> resistor.  So each input 
> >> channel would need trimming to get matching gain.
> >>     
> >
> > On a mixer you might adjust the gain by ear...
> >
> >   
> 
> Sure :)
> 
> But if you have a mixer with all faders set to the
> same point you would 
> want all signals to be mixed equally.  I guess it
> depends on the 
> application.  When working with stereo it's pretty
> important to have 
> good gain matching between channels.
> 
> Seb
> 
> 
> 
> 



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