Hey guys,
I had an interesting discussion with a touring A1 the other day that kinda threw me. She was touring with a Yamaha PM5D on a Broadway-style musical tour, and she had DCA 8 permanently designated as the Band fader in all the scenes. On shows I've done, we route the band into one of the Stereo faders to the right of the DCAs, which frees up another DCA for vocal mics. When I mentioned this to the A1, she said that there's something different about the way DCAs and the Stereo faders fade levels such that you don't want to be doing that. I know that the DCAs don't get routed, but just in terms of fading levels, are DCAs and the Stereo masters the same?
I had an interesting discussion with a touring A1 the other day that kinda threw me. She was touring with a Yamaha PM5D on a Broadway-style musical tour, and she had DCA 8 permanently designated as the Band fader in all the scenes. On shows I've done, we route the band into one of the Stereo faders to the right of the DCAs, which frees up another DCA for vocal mics. When I mentioned this to the A1, she said that there's something different about the way DCAs and the Stereo faders fade levels such that you don't want to be doing that. I know that the DCAs don't get routed, but just in terms of fading levels, are DCAs and the Stereo masters the same?