solderdude
Grand Contributor
When I was a young guy I worked for Jaap Keizerwaard. The builder and inventor of 'the Magic organ' made famous by Cor Steyn (picture of Cor with that organ below).
What one never sees in the pictures is that it had 10 channels. All connected to active speakers (2 way) except for the 2 enormous (active) bass speakers which had a few large woofers in them. Now where am I going with this...
In those days I asked him why he didn't just use 1 or 2 huge speakers. He then explained and showed me that each 'tone' had free running oscillators and each 'instrument' had its own speaker. Below the 'generator'.
Simply because acoustic mixing sounds very different from electrical mixing which would also require even more power in one speaker to reach the same SPL to begin with.
So far the off-topic.... Each instrument their own instrument is a good idea... now we need many speakers (that might need to be moved around per recording) and multichannel recordings that are 'pre-mixed' at the correct level.
What one never sees in the pictures is that it had 10 channels. All connected to active speakers (2 way) except for the 2 enormous (active) bass speakers which had a few large woofers in them. Now where am I going with this...
In those days I asked him why he didn't just use 1 or 2 huge speakers. He then explained and showed me that each 'tone' had free running oscillators and each 'instrument' had its own speaker. Below the 'generator'.
Simply because acoustic mixing sounds very different from electrical mixing which would also require even more power in one speaker to reach the same SPL to begin with.
So far the off-topic.... Each instrument their own instrument is a good idea... now we need many speakers (that might need to be moved around per recording) and multichannel recordings that are 'pre-mixed' at the correct level.
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