jmorris
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whats up with the talk these days about summing amps? Can someone walk me through its meaning? 
S
studiomaster
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Hmm...interesting.
FALKEN
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an amp is an amp. in order to "sum" two signals you must simply connect the wires and buffer them with resistors. is there a particular product you had in mind?
jmorris
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no ,no product in particular. I have just been seeing in mags. like Mix and EQ. articles about summing amps. Like using them is something special. Guitar Center is selling in a flyer I got today a Neve summing amp. Maybe its just a phrase I dont remember hearing before but it just seems like a "summing amp" is this "new" deal
mshilarious
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jmorris said:
It is, sort of. They are stripped down mixers, essentially, removed of most extraneous functions except for the actual mix busses. But the technology involved is 30 or 40 years old.
fraserhutch
Flypaper for freaks
The hype today is to get analog summing at the end of a mix, the premise being that digital summing is not as desirable.
So, you get summing busses, summing amps, etc.
The Dangerous 2Bus is one example. http://www.mercenary.com/dangerous2bus.html
So, you get summing busses, summing amps, etc.
The Dangerous 2Bus is one example. http://www.mercenary.com/dangerous2bus.html
FALKEN
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oh i get you. yeah; i guess they're new and around because people can now do all of the eq, panning, volume, etc. "in the box" and they don't need mixers. but some people think that separate channels "summed" together via resistors sounds better than via 1's and 0's so..."summing boxes". oh yeah...you need an amp because the resistors lower the volume of the signals.