I have seen this feature advertised on Allen & Heath mixers, but i have no clue what it is or what it does. Can someone please explain?
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nah just kidding..

they stand for voltage control filter.

yep Voltage Controlled Filter

and what it does...well it filters

supposedly the filters on the allen & heath mixers sound really really good

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this means that there's no audio signal on your faders and equalizer buttons, but a DC voltage. This gives a better sound, because noise created by a bad fader or equalizer button is not affecting the audio signal

Greetz Maarten

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Originally posted by djskylz this means that there's no audio signal on your faders and equalizer buttons, but a DC voltage. This gives a better sound, because noise created by a bad fader or equalizer button is not affecting the audio signal Greetz Maarten

? Isn't filtering something else than EQ-ing? Equalizer doesn't use a VCF...and faders sure as hell don't...in synths, amplitude is controlled by VCA (voltage controlled amplifier)....If a mixer has a VCF it means it has a couple of knobs (typically "cutoff" and "resonance"/"Q") which allow you to tweak the filter....allowing you make sweeps (swoooooooosj-ish sounds) in your set, using the incoming signal as sound source.

i was wrong pjotr-g, the thing i explained is VCA, instead of VCF. Sorry . But they use VCA in faders, as i remeber it from the Dateq site: "The cross-fader is connected between the outermost channels of the XTC and, together with the channel faders, is VCA operated, in order to exclude interference and to guarantee years of troublefree use."


Maarten

Last edited by djskylz on Nov-27-2001 at 19:49

the VCF filters in the A&H mixers do sound very nice. some filters sound downright bad. Non musical @ all. There isnt a single bit Ive found in the A&H that isnt musical. they blow my mind. PERIOD!

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