I recently got a mixer for work stuff but honestly I don’t really know how to use it, HELP
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Think of the mixer like three people working together to translate a message from Spanish to English. Let’s call them Bob, Linda, and Steve.
Linda can read and write in both Spanish and in English, but she can’t actually speak in either language. She learned both of them entirely from books. That’s why she needs Bob and Steve – Bob speaks Spanish and Steve speaks English.
Bob listens to the Spanish message and then writes it down for Linda. Linda writes down the English version of the message, and then Steve reads it out loud. “Volume” tells Steve how loud to say the words. Great, right?
There’s a little problem – Linda only has these little bits of paper to write on, and she always writes letters that are the same size as the ones she’s reading. It’s just part of her process. Her eyesight isn’t that great either – she probably didn’t have enough light when she was doing all that reading. Or maybe she didn’t hold the books far enough away from her face!
Bob is a little weird – the louder the Spanish sounds, the bigger he writes his letters. That’s why Bob has a “Gain” setting.
If the Spanish is REALLY loud, then Bob is going to use HUGE letters. When Linda writes down the English version, it won’t all fit on the paper 🙁 Steve won’t be able to do a good job of speaking the English version, no matter what volume you asked for. Did he just say “I wa to ea Pi”??
If the Spanish is REALLY quiet, then when Bob writes it down for Linda the letters will be TINY, and she won’t be able to read it well with her bad eyesight 🙁 The English message will have lots of mistakes again! Did he just say “I went to leek pieces”??
Bob has to write his message down at just the right size for everything to work right. If there are mistakes, we can use the Gain to ask him to write bigger, or maybe to write smaller, and we just keep messing around with that until the English message comes out sounding right. Oh! He said “I want to eat Pizza”! Why bother translating that? When does anyone *not* want to eat Pizza?! Ugh, what a waste of effort…
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