Totally excellent video! I’ve read all about the Dugan automixer for years but nothing beats hearing it from Dan the man himself. I really enjoyed hearing about the development of the algorithm.
I love this guy's approach of freely giving away his old inventions, but using it as an opportunity to publicize his new improved inventions. That's a very reasonable balance between sharing and monetizing his knowledge.
19:05 If Dan Dugan isn't an engineer, then I'm not even a human being. This really outclassed every other explanation of Dugans and auto-mixing in general I've found, including asking college professors who usually just said "don't bother. If you mix and place mics properly you don't need them."
I use two different mixers (Behringer XR18, and a Soundcraft Ui24R) that both feature built in Dugan Automix. It is a dream. I do an on location live panel discussion radio show from a noisy restaurant featuring a host with 6 or 7 panelists. Dugan Automix makes it so easy to get a clean quiet mix. I loved learning how and why it works so well.
@@SoundSpeeds From the Behringer XR18 literature... "Based on the legendary Dan Dugan automix system, the XR18’s gain sharing paradigm automatically controls the levels of all selected microphones in real time, without any gating artifacts or noise modulation."
"Based on" isn't licensed by. Run a Google search and you'll find that it's not an officially licensed product and using Dan Dugan's name in their advertising is shady.
@Sound Speeds I find your comment here somewhat condescending. "Licensed by" does not describe or measure functionality. The OP said the behringer dugan style automixer *works*. Your contention appears to be that Behringer didn't adequately credit/compensate the original inventor - not that that it doesn't function following the dugan style approach. As I newbie, I just want to know if it *works* or not.
P.S. just googled it "Dugan’s original 1974 patent for the automixer (“Control Apparatus for Sound Reinforcement Systems”) expired in 1991 and has been in the public domain ever since." Licensing is not required or necessary for any technology where the patent expired 30+ years ago. Dan Dugan should be proud of his widespread impact in the sound industry! But this patent appears to have run its course.
Me sitting here thinking “ohhh so that’s what that Dougan thing is” after having mixed improv for three years and cried on multiple occasions. Needless to say I now own auto mix 😂. Thanks Allen!
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Totally excellent video! I’ve read all about the Dugan automixer for years but nothing beats hearing it from Dan the man himself. I really enjoyed hearing about the development of the algorithm.
Yeah, It was really awesome of him to take the time. Thanks for watching!
I love this guy's approach of freely giving away his old inventions, but using it as an opportunity to publicize his new improved inventions. That's a very reasonable balance between sharing and monetizing his knowledge.
Agreed. He's brilliant in many ways.
invaluable information! Thank you for this wonderful interview!
He did a great job explaining it. Thank you for watching.
19:05 If Dan Dugan isn't an engineer, then I'm not even a human being. This really outclassed every other explanation of Dugans and auto-mixing in general I've found, including asking college professors who usually just said "don't bother. If you mix and place mics properly you don't need them."
You get the straight story when you ask the inventor to explain. Dan is brilliant. Thanks for watching.
Thank you Dan Dugan!🙌🏻
100%
Just got my hands on a Yamaha CL5, which has this built in. I’ll make use of it
Yes! You'll love it.
Incredible in depth information, thank you!
Dan is awesome and breaks down a complex concept very easily.. Thanks for watching.
I use two different mixers (Behringer XR18, and a Soundcraft Ui24R) that both feature built in Dugan Automix. It is a dream. I do an on location live panel discussion radio show from a noisy restaurant featuring a host with 6 or 7 panelists. Dugan Automix makes it so easy to get a clean quiet mix. I loved learning how and why it works so well.
I don't think Behringer and Soundcraft use Dugan. There are other automixers out there and sounds like both of those have a competitor integrated.
@@SoundSpeeds From the Behringer XR18 literature... "Based on the legendary Dan Dugan automix system, the XR18’s gain sharing paradigm automatically controls the levels of all selected microphones in real time, without any gating artifacts or noise modulation."
"Based on" isn't licensed by. Run a Google search and you'll find that it's not an officially licensed product and using Dan Dugan's name in their advertising is shady.
@Sound Speeds I find your comment here somewhat condescending. "Licensed by" does not describe or measure functionality. The OP said the behringer dugan style automixer *works*. Your contention appears to be that Behringer didn't adequately credit/compensate the original inventor - not that that it doesn't function following the dugan style approach. As I newbie, I just want to know if it *works* or not.
P.S. just googled it "Dugan’s original 1974 patent for the automixer (“Control Apparatus for Sound Reinforcement Systems”) expired in 1991 and has been in the public domain ever since." Licensing is not required or necessary for any technology where the patent expired 30+ years ago. Dan Dugan should be proud of his widespread impact in the sound industry! But this patent appears to have run its course.
Me sitting here thinking “ohhh so that’s what that Dougan thing is” after having mixed improv for three years and cried on multiple occasions. Needless to say I now own auto mix 😂. Thanks Allen!
Thank you PJ. Yeah, I've nearly bought the Waves Dugan Automix system a few times even though I'd likely never use it. It's just so cool!
Mind Blown!
He's awesome! Such a great video!
This is awesome!
Dan is amazing! I loves this video too. Time to rewatch. Thank you for watching.
Employee of the month. Every single month. lol.
A living legend. Such an intelligent man.