Meters question

[bumtsch]

Apparently the 800 has a built-in adjustable limiter, and it would seem it doesn't distort as much as previous models. That is not an excuse though!

[Karlos Santos]

Yeah i must admit i found it hard to make the 800 distort. Its a good mixer.
The 600 is a different story, the 600 distorts if you just look at it. Terrible.

[Abyrne7]

I often hit the red many times throughout the night depending on the sound situation. The audiofire 2 has really hot outputs! I often have to bring my main down little from its more desirable level.

[bumtsch]

The audiofire 2 has really hot outputs!

Hence the name

[PartyMcFly]

Rockstars play at 11. Duh.

And the poor, very nervous and highly annoyed guy in charge of the venue's sound system is turning the rockstar down at the amplifier while he's continuing to crank his gains due to his sound pressure threshold shifting.

See here.

Don't copy this, it is a terrible example to follow. I've played with residents who, also wanting to be rockstars, started pushing into the red JUST because they saw a few touring DJs come through and do this on our venue's system.

When asked WTF they thought they were doing one word-for-word literal response I got was "Dude, when D******r Drugs played the guy was like, maxing out the red bars!"

[Karlos Santos]

d******r drugs

idiots.

[Dj just b]

idiots.

Precisely.