MCA's for main mix

Forums Forums dLive Forums dLive feature suggestions MCA's for main mix

This topic contains 11 replies, has 8 voices, and was last updated by Profile photo of Brad Brad 5 years ago.

Viewing 12 posts - 1 through 12 (of 12 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #82929
    Profile photo of Lishinsky
    Lishinsky
    Participant

    Is there a reason not to have the MCA’s available for the main mix??
    I think the benefits are obvious!! No?

    #82946
    Profile photo of SteffenR
    SteffenR
    Participant

    what you mean?

    #82947
    Profile photo of ddff_lv
    ddff_lv
    Participant

    MCA for main mix is called DCA, and it is there.

    #82951
    Profile photo of Lishinsky
    Lishinsky
    Participant

    I Know what a DCA is!! it does not move faders. MCA does!!
    lets say you have a group of channels with a good relative balance between them, and you would like to readjust there fader position respectively!!
    of course you can achieve the same gain change by moving the DCA but what I’m looking for is to actually move the faders so they can all fall within the comfort zone ( around the unity point 0 ) where the fader has the most resolution. if i have to move all faders individually i will have to reconstruct the balance of that group.

    #82956
    Profile photo of Ethix
    Ethix
    Participant

    Do MCAs move faders? Not on the desks I have used.

    #82957
    Profile photo of Brad
    Brad
    Participant

    Ethic, looking at the 1.8 firmware, they do now! i haven’t tried on the physical desk, but in director, moving the MCA (DCA) will move he associated faders in the mix send.

    Lishinsky, having said that, for the main mix wouldn’t you set the individual faders in the comfort zone, then turn the DCA up/down as required? If the DCA was to move faders like the MCA does, wouldn’t this move the faders out of your comfort zone, thus achieving the opposite effect?

    #82958
    Profile photo of mixJM
    mixJM
    Participant

    This could be called “DCA trim mode”.
    Also it would be a nice feature to have on FX sends too.

    #82959
    Profile photo of GCumbee
    GCumbee
    Participant

    This was a feature on Digidesign Pro Control going back to the late 90’s. It was a grouping method but you could move any fader in the group and all that groups faders would move respectively. Of course the highest fader would take everything down. The lowest wouldn’t. I was very surprised when I started working with DCAs on digital consoles and saw that it didn’t exist. It becomes strictly a listening thing. I for one would like to see this implemented but not holding my breath. Maybe their thinking is like recording consoles going back to the 70’s with VCAs. They didn’t move the group either.

    #82960
    Profile photo of Lishinsky
    Lishinsky
    Participant

    Brad, im not asking to replace the function of the DCA’s to what the MCA does. at the moment the option for MCA is excluded from the main mix. i think this option should be available for the main mix as well.
    i just mentioned an example where the average fader position of a given group drifted outside of the comfort zone during a show.

    #82966
    Profile photo of ddff_lv
    ddff_lv
    Participant

    Right, I see now.
    I guess Digico has an option to chose DCA behaviours and moving faders of DCA members is one of them. I wouldn’t use it, but as an option- why not.

    #83001
    Profile photo of jf
    jf
    Participant

    To the developers of the 1.8, it would have been smarter to put an option to validate or not the movement of the faders with the MCA. Sorry to tell you, but your choice is not comfortable at all, since there is more real visibility of the Mix when the faders are down! . Thank you for correcting this as soon as possible ..

    regards

    #83061
    Profile photo of Brad
    Brad
    Participant

    OK, that makes sense. in this situation would there need to be some type of gain compensation taking place? i.e. if you bring the mains MCA up to bring faders back into the sweet zone, would you also want the DCA to drop by an equivalent dB to keep the overall volume the same?

Viewing 12 posts - 1 through 12 (of 12 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.