1. Re: Very quiet recordings

["Avocet" madl74]

> In Exeter they have a desk with sliders that go "the wrong way" - 
> you pull them towards you to increase volume - no doubt built when 
> there was no standard on such things

Tony,

Ah, but that *was* the standard - the rest of the World got it wrong. 
:-) The idea was that "dead" faders were out of the way.

When i joined, quadrant faders and even some massive rotary faders 
were still in use.
http://www.roger.beckwith.btinternet.co.uk/bh/marconi/marconi.htm

When the BEEB stopped designing its own equipmant they had to change 
over.

In the Film Unit, we had a BBC portable mixer which often needed to be 
extended by a hired mixer and it kept you awake remembering which way 
to fade each one.

David

David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce