Re: EDP Gain/Noise

[Mark Sottilaro <msottila@mailbox.syr.edu>]

Gain.  Very tricky subject.  When you get right down to it, when you use
the word gain, you're getting noise (in the analogue world) .  The trick
is to achieve something called "Unity Gain" (translation: No increase
throughout the system)

The best advise I can give you is to look at the lights, but trust your
ears.  Feed in as much signal as you can with out clipping the input.
Boosting a weak signal is never a good plan.  Same goes for out put.
The best thing you can do is put out a test tone of a known db level and
track it's level through the system.  That gets a little tricky, as few
pro-sumer gear produces such calibrated tones.  If anyone knows of such
things, let me know.

Also, where did you get your EDP?  Are they being sold as new gear?  Did
you get it used, and if so, how much?

Mark Sottilaro