Passive Stereo Controller ... Hype?

meowadishi

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Hello,

I found this...
http://www.smproaudio.com/index.php/en/products/monitor-controllers/nanopatch

It is a passive stereo controller. After reading their reasoning for it I felt "Well I need that". Then after thinking some more. Do I?

I LOVE the fact that a push of a button I can kill my monitors. Since I mainly record in the same room. The adjustable volume seems smart. But the whole reasoning behind this

"It is much more appropriate to keep your software masters at unity and attenuate the audio to your active monitors with a passive controller like the Nano Patch+. This way you can maintain maximum audio resolution and attenuate your monitoring volume with the confidence that the sonic integrity of your audio is not compromised."

and

"Reducing levels from your software only reduces the audio bit depth."

To me it seems smart but at the same time hype.

Anybody have any input?
 
I don't know enough about audio to know if it is just hype but I have one and it is handy to have. I got it to control an output of an AxeFx and ElevenRack that go to a powered monitor. Since then I've used it for lots of things as I experiment with routing things and it always performs just like you'd want it to.
 
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