Re: Rackmount 1-space stereo line mixers?

[wavelet <wavelet@petebrunelli.com>]

On Saturday, Sep 20, 2003, at 20:24 US/Eastern, Steve Ginn wrote:

> One alternative that I am working with now is the new MOTU 828 Mk II.  
> It
> has 10 discrete ins (which include 2 XLR's with built in pres and 48v
> phantom power and their own individual inserts) and 8 outs (on top of 
> all
> the ADAT and SPIDF digital I/O's).  The cool thing is that even though 
> it is
>

I thought that the Mk II had 8 preamps.  Am I wrong?  I had a Mk I and 
it had
two, and That was one of the major upgardes to the Mk II....  Now I 
have a
MAudio 410 and it is a really nice box for someone like me that does
more stereo work than anything else.


> created as a firewire recording interface it also has the capability to
> operate as a standalone digital mixer with 4 separate busses which 
> sort of
> act like a matrix mixing system.  You can bring in a series of inputs 
> and
> output those to any of the outputs for processing, then bring that 
> effected
> signal back into a different bus, etc., etc.  It also has a headphone 
> jack
> on the front and you can even assign the headphone as the output for 
> one of

Can you rout an input to more than one set of outputs, or is it just
bussing where you don't get to mix the raw signal?

> the mixes which could act as your own personal monitor mix.  All this 
> can be
> programmed and set from the PC or Mac, but can be modified right from 
> the
> front (volume, routing, panning, etc.) of the unit without any computer
> hooked up.  I am still trying to work it into my system as my main 
> mixer and
> so far its looking pretty promising.  The final nice thing is that it 
> is a
> single rack space unit!
>
> Regards,
> Steve Ginn
>
>
> On 9/19/03 9:10 PM, "Mike Barrs" <mbarrs@nightviewer.com> wrote:
>
>>> From: wavelet [mailto:wavelet@petebrunelli.com]
>>>
>>> I've been using a Ashly single space 8 channel, and it is a very
>>> versatile mixer but it lacks sends/returns.  It is basically
>>> a broadcast mixer but it has great fidelity and stereo/mono
>>> capability.  MX308    is the model, but it may have been replaced.
>>> It isn't in my rack at the moment because it is on loan but
>>> I've had noting but positive experiences with it.
>>
>> I think the current model is the Ashly LX 308B, 8 stereo pairs, but 
>> the main
>> thing is it has a headphone jack with a separate level control. 
>> That's the
>> one I'm still leaning towards, since I need the ability to kill the 
>> main
>> outputs and listen to just headphones when I practice. I need the 
>> headphone
>> jack more than I need the full stereo FX loop feature I was looking 
>> for. It
>> seems to be impossible to get both those features in the same 1u line 
>> mixer.
>>
>> Thanks again to everyone for the feedback!
>>
>> Mike Barrs
>>
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