There will invariably come a time when you are recording and these sets of circumstances collide:
1 You are listening to your mix at a (eh em) relatively loud volume, either through headphones or your monitors.
2 You are fully enjoying not only the fine mix you have crafted for what it is, but also the natural compression your ear has when listening to (eh em) relatively loud music.
3 Your digital Mixer decides to throw digital feedback through one of your channels.
The sudden explosion of ear-splitting noise tears through your head, numbing your senses and nearly gives you heart failure. Biological effects aside, you may have well killed the high end of your monitors.
As any of my friends and clients will attest, I am a digital junkie. I enjoy the relatively noiseless and clear work environment gives me. 2 O1vs are the heart of my studio, effortlessly mixing together both digital and analog sources and feeding it back into my Mac, for a mix down to be proud of.
There is something that the guys at the music store didn’t tell me about these mixers. The mixer occasionally loses its mind, and routes something wrong, and all hell breaks loose.
Unfortunately there is nothing to be done about it, other than checking.. (and re-checking) your routing, both real and virtual and maintain your equipment as well, both real and virtual.
It may very well save your monitors and your hearing as well.
See you next time.
J
