Redlining - how bad is it?

[deevey]

Now that IS retro :P

Only downside to the Formula Sound stuff (the FSM and PM ranges anyway) is that there aren't any per-channel VU meters. The PM series has a clipping indicator though which is something at least.

Although If I remember rightly there was a button to switch between Cue and Master on the VU, been a long time since I played on one.

Should you really need to know what the precise gain is via individual VU per channel is for DJ'ing purposes ?

IMHO thats what ears are for. Like you said there is a clip indicator per channel. Thats the only real signal you should need that its running in the rough and it honestly took ALOT to get it to the point of clipping a channel.

[makar1]

VU meters help a lot for EQing as well as balancing two tracks. Visual feedback is useful in a noisy environment.

[tekki]

I redline like crazy, coz everyone knows redder is faster and better!

[deevey]

I redline like crazy, coz everyone knows redder is faster and better!

[bumtsch]

I only recently noticed the headphone level knob on Xones goes to 11

Also, silly pun that came to mind by reading another thread - headliner/redliner. (funny because it's true)

[Cook]

when you go for a drink/pee, talk a walk through the dancefloor,

my sat night resident the booth is a mile away from the dancefloor and the bar is at the other side so ive usually got to rely on levels from the mixer and amps (they're in the booth), so earplugs out for a few seconds, walk to the bar, order drink, check its not too loud, earplugs back in. everybodys happy,

then the guy on after me clears the floor by cranking it far too loud >.>

[Gangaz]

What if for example on the djm pioneer mixer only the channel volumes are clipping and the master volume is still very much green ? will this still damage the speakers ?