16 tracks for a Yamaha AW4416

[GABritton]

I'm purchasing a MY8-AD card for my AW4416 to take it to 16 tracks. The card has 8 balanced in/outs. . I'm wondering if the pre's are going to be enough....it'll probably be handling all dynamic mics, no condensers. I think I've seen some people use an outboard mixer w/ direct outs for each track, but I don't need to buy another mixer if I don't HAVE to.

Has anyone installed one of these cards on their AW4416??

[turner]

on the yamaha my8-ad card, there are no preamps built in. It's just line inputs. You need to purchase external preamps to plug into the 1/4" inputs on the yamaha my8-ad card. That's why you hear of people hooking up external mixers to these inputs. I have the yamaha my8-ad24 card (no longer manufactured) which is the same as the my8-ad except for 24-bit vs. 20-bit conversion.

[GABritton]

Thanks Turner,
I found an 8 channel pre amp like the SM Audio PR8MKII. Anybody tried hooking one of these up to the AW4416? I't not a mixer, but it is a pre-amp, which is what I really need.

Are there any other solutions to take the AW4416 to 16 tracks?

[turner]

you might also look into the adat card they make for the aw4416. It will give you 8 channels of inputs if you connect it to a 8 channel preamp with adat outputs such as presonus digimax lt or behringer ada8000.

About the sm-audio product. You can definatly use it to hook up to the my8-ad card. I have heard that some of sm audio stuff is not good though.

[GABritton]

So using the Yamaha MY8-AT coupled with the Behringer ADA8000? Using the in/outs on both units? or just out from the behringer and in on the yamaha? Sorry if I'm sounding dumb at this point.

[turner]

I don’t own a behringer ada8000 but it seems by the behringer manual you can hook it up either way. For just starting out, I would only hook the ada8000 adat output to the my8-at card input with one adat cable and you will get the 8 channels of preamps into the aw4416 recorder. If you needed to send 8 ouputs out of the aw4416 via the my8-at output into the ada8000 adat input (for whatever reasons) then buy another adat cable and a bnc (word clock) cable and you will be good to go.

Also I re-read your first post and noticed that you said the my8-ad card will give you 8 inputs and 8 outputs. It will not. It’s only going to give you 8 ~¼” line inputs and no outputs.

It just depends on what you are looking for. If you need 8 preamp channels on a budget get the behringer ada8000, yamaha my8-at card, and one adat cable. If you are wanting to get a collection of different preamps for flavor or a mixer buy the my8-ad card.

[GABritton]

Thganks for the help Turner....I will probably do the ADAT thing. It'll be easier to deal with running one ADAT cable rather than having to run 8 TRS cables.