Week 11: Mixing Console Overview

With the advent of digital mixing consoles, what seemed like easy operations on a simple analog console can become daunting to perform on a digital mixer. But in reality, they both use the same audio toolbox. In fact, a digital mixer often gives the live sound engineer the same dynamic tools that a studio engineer or a mastering engineer would use to enrich the quality of the sounds in a recording studio environment.  

Despite using the same audio toolbox, the two different typs of mixers, analog & digital, have inherently different appraoches to signal path and gain stucture. In this course, we will examine the fundamental physical differences between the two without delving into subjective or collective value or their quality of sound.