Re: Rackmount 1-space stereo line mixers?

[Steve Ginn <sginn@mac.com>]

On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 03:40PM, wavelet 
<wavelet@petebrunelli.com> wrote:

>
>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.

No it still has only two mic pres ... but now they are mounted on the 
front which makes them convenient.  All the analog inputs and outs are 
fully balanced and switchable between +4 & -10.

>
>
>> 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?
>

in the configuration you can have up to 4 separate mix busses and you can 
route any of the inputs to each output pair assigned to a mix bus.  For 
example on one mix bus I may assign all my regular inputs to the main 
outs.  Then on another mix bus I may assign those same inputs to a 
different out (adat for example) for something effects processing and then 
route the output of that effects device also on the same mix bus that is 
assigned to the main outs.  I can then control the wet and dry levels on 
the main mix bus.  The bottom line is that you can have up to 4 separate 
(different) output pairs with each pair assigned to a different mix bus 
and each mix bus can have any or all of the inputs that are available for 
the entire unit assigned to each of these output mix busses.