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Last edited by tekki; 07-04-2012 at 05:40 AM.
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"“beatmatching” isnt even a fucking skill as far as im concered anyway. so what, you can count to 4. cool. i had that skill down when i was 3."-deadmau5
I don't know how many different ways I can explain it. System DSP is not some infallible device that will prevent any type of failure, your assertions as such are wrong and such information should not be represented as true to people who may be less than experienced at configuring a club/concert audio system.
FACT: Exceeding the RMS power handling of a system can and eventually will cause damage.
The only way to prevent this from happening is to over spec your audio system and then use DSP limiting (preferably per pass band as previously stated) to keep operated levels within that safe limit.
I'm sorry if you feel attacked, but quite frankly you don't seem to understand the fundamentals of setting up an audio system, and your false assertions should not be represented as facts.
Last edited by rotebass; 07-04-2012 at 09:24 AM.
Two things.
1) As for the DJM 900 anyway (not sure if this applies to the 800 etc.) I read a post by one of the tech guys over on the Pio forums a while back stating that the ideal spot to run your channels and master is around +4 db. I'm not a sound engineer by any means, nor do I pretend to be an expert in the area, but to my ears +4 does sound like a pretty solid sweet spot in practice.
2) Aside from carelessness the reason even experienced DJs run into the red, I would imagine, is because of the progression of the night. If you walk up to a mixer as the DJ before you is finishing and he already has every channel and the master pushed into the red... What do you do? Do you cut 4-6db across the board and let the energy fade out? Or do you talk to the sound engineer (assuming the venue actually has one on-site; not every venue does, to say the least) and try to coordinate volume adjustment right as you start your set? Just because you know it's a bad idea to run your levels into the red doesn't mean the guy before you knows that (or cares). What do you do when your set's falling flat? Just pump the volume! Right? RIGHT?
Aside from that - even venues with a sound engineer have probably learned something along the way; unfortunately, too many (most?) DJs run their levels into the red. Thus if the SE sets the system to sound best with the mixer running at +4db, he's going to have some serious issues with the mixer running at +10. Better to play it on the safe side and set the gain-staging to be acceptable when the mixer's running at +10 to avoid the worst-case scenario, but then that leaves the DJ running the system at +4 sounding quiet/low energy. I don't think it's quite so cut and dry as just red being a pretty color or DJs being morons... at least not all the time
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