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Chapter 25

Consoles and Computers

by Steve Dove

25.1 Introduction

25.1.1 Console Development

25.2 Auxiliary Paths

25.2.1 Monitoring

25.2.2 Prefade Listen and Audition

25.2.3 Overdubbing and Foldback (Cue)

25.2.4 Echo, Reverberation, and Effects Send

25.2.5 Communications (Talkback)

25.2.6 Combined Auxiliaries

25.3 Stereo Consoles

25.3.2 Auxiliaries for Stereo

25.3.3 Multiple EffectFeeds

25.4 Dawning of Multitrack

25.5 Grouping and the Monitoring Section

25.5.1 Subgrouping and Output Matrices

25.6 Console Design Developments

25.6.1 Transistors

25.6.2 Level Specifications

25.7 Operational Amplifiers in Consoles

25.7.1 Slew-Rate Limitations

25.7.2 Bipolar Field Effect Transistors (BiFETs)

25.7.3 Discrete Operational Amplifiers ...

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