Hi
Depending on circumstances and the gear you have, you could make some
'passive summers' (basically a few resistors plus whatever connectors
are necessary to make it convenient). Assuming you have independent
control of the various 'source' signals then you can 'sum' them together
and feed that into a desk channel input. These 'summers' can have from 2
up to as many channels as you want although I would suggest making say 4
or 5 little boxes each with the capability of summing up to 4 channels
then just use them as you see fit for your application. a morning spent
drilling the necessary holes (jacks only need a round hole each) and
solder in some resistors, say 10K Ohms from each input jack then a 200
Ohm resistor to 'terminate' it. See Gearslutz forums for endless
discussions on the subject with all the angst of 'which value to use'.
Bypass all this, get some 10K esistors and get them built and you will
be rocking by lunchtime.
You may well find these little 'summer' boxes useful later for other
applications or you can pull the resistors out and put transformers in
there to use for other things (hum isolation or 'audio colour'). All
else fails use them to stop your table wobbling!
Matt S
Seamus McNulty wrote:
Are there any subgroups and/or echo returns on the Neotek?
No eq on them, but they are inputs, after all.
Seamus
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Matt Walsh <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Seems like a lot of work no matter what. What's wrong with getting a
Mackie? A 12 channel Neotek does not seem to be the righ board for the
application.
M
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Matt Syson
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi
> The answer is in your last couple of lines in that you need a
switch to
> change over between 2 (or could be more) 'sources'.
> A 2 pole 'toggle' switch per channel would do it or you could
get more fancy
> solutions. If you have a patchfield available you could 'normal' one
> instrument and 'overpatch' when you want the second. you can
only really
> have 1 source into each channel input at a time. Patching has an
advantage
> that you can pick your 'alternate' sources without restriction,
but the
> switch method would be quicker.
> There would be other 'custom mods' you could do to your desk but
this gets
> very much more involved.
> Matt S
>
> Mike Thompson wrote:
>>
>> I'll try to explain this the best I can - the studio we have is
a tracking
>> studio with keyboards instruments. The idea is to use the
console as a
>> mixer for everything we own and have it all plugged in and
live, and when we
>> want to record to disk, we have the 8 subs plugged into a
quality computer
>> interface (which we don't own yet, but I've been able to
replicate this idea
>> with a Firepod as a test). the idea should work, however we
have at least
>> 20+ keyboard instruments in the studio and only 12 channels on
the Neotek.
>> Now, not all of the instruments will need to be plugged into
the console,
>> but most will. Enough to pass the limit of 12 channels. I did
a test
>> involving an old patchbay and basically tying two of the jacks
together and
>> running the cable to 1 input on the ADC patch panel. It
worked, but when
>> the second instrument was plugged in, I saw a drop in volume
overall. I
>> figure this is not the correct way to do what I want, and I'm
sure there
>> must be a way to have everything plugged into the board at once
and just
>> switch to what we want live at the time, if not everything
during a jam
>> session, etc... Forgive me if this sounds ridiculous; I'm just
not that
>> familiar with the Neotek yet!
>>
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