Fun with motorized faders

I did some recording in a studio recently (Zing, Westfield, MA.) with a Trident mixing board reputedly used by the Clash and many other popular British punk acts back in the day. I can't verify that claim, but I did take this little video of some cute tricks with the motorized faders

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Music

Tags:

• studio
• Trident
• mixing
• motorized
• faders
• Zing
• Killswitch
• Engage

[improfessoradam]

what soes it do if there moterized like what makes them better?

[daxerexford]

@improfessoradam the faders automatically set themselves to the correct position to correspond with the track. You also get a physical interface to virtual volume envelopes.

[jimmis100gr]

@daxerexford its a digital console right?

[daxerexford]

@jimmis100gr The recording was done in ProTools, so I guess the signal has to "get digital" at some point.

[The8ighthBit]

A total waste of energy, battery life, server space and time.

[daxerexford]

@The8ighthBit Best of luck in your quest to find deep meaning in your life by watching Youtube videos...

[festeradamz]

stop fuckin around n get some work done lol

[Subparanon]

@improfessoradam also when you are dealing with audio in the analog domain it gives you finer control over the levels because there are no steps. When controlling volume digitally what it is doing is lowering the binary representation of the volume which is done in progressive steps and at low volume it's hard to make subtle adjustments. Analog is infinite.

[Jannto]

@daxerexford And you can make them do really cool shit too

[bofal3a]

DAM u people were soo bored :P 

[DragonTamer2345]

@improfessoradam Not sure on this board, but on fully digital boards, all the aux sends and stuff are removed from the channel. When you page from Master, to aux sends, to whatever, the faders all shift position to show what you have set on each channel, and then you just move it and it saves it, and then you can move on as usual.

[Nijnvenijn]

Nice groove :o)



[pepper669]

Interesting rhythm...

You could make it an art form. Seriously, I mean Steve Reich has done very interesting work involving just a microphone and a few speakers.

'Misuse of technology is the first step towards art'

- Peter

[pepper669]

Interesting rhythm...

[FunnyVideoCollector]

The mixing desk has to do warm up yoga in the morning to get the best results every pro knows that.