Some great stuff in these articles, especially for anyone of the old school of all analog.

It's not the focus here, but I've always found that awareness of gain staging is most important in live sound situations. Until recently, this remained an exclusively analog environment. Unless you take care to keep a strong signal at every place in the system, it's easy to amplify the omnipresent noise from ambient noise, radio frequency interference, losses from particularly long cable runs and multiple connection points, electromagnetic interference, impedance mismatches, weak output from some mics etc.


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