Re: Where is Graham's mixer design? (was Re: RAT Tube Mixer update?)

Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:

> Ian Iveson wrote:
> >
> > The first stage usually is the main culprit, in a circuit
> > with several cascaded gain stages. But is that still the
> > case if half way through the circuit the signal is
> > attenuated to the same level as the input, and then
> > restored? Is the stage that recovers the gain equally
> > im****tant?
>
> It is im****tant. It's noise and head room performance are particularly
> im****tant.

Absolutely so.

Modern mixing consoles have virtually universally moved from a series of
fixed gain stages with level controls(s) between them to adjust the total
gain to a stage with continuously variable gain. This helps optimise the
various conflicting parameters.

Graham