getuhgrip
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Is there any benefit to digital mixers beyond being able to snap-shot settings? I read that they reduce the number of A/D conversions which makes sense, but isn't my Darla card already doing that?
SPINSTERWUN
Active member
My $.02. 
I use the Tascam TMD1000 digital board.
One of the advantages I see and like is the fact that I can keep my music in the digital realm.
What I mean is this...
I can import my music into the board, then send it to the computer via TDIF, then send it back out to the board (at the same time, DIGITALLY) without degrading the sound.
So, instead of converting the imported music from analogue to digital and then back to analogue.
I go analogue to digital to digital. Once I get it into the digital realm I can keep it in the digital realm (unless, I wanted to give it a fatter or warmer type of sound, then of course, I would send it to an analogue device).
spin
I use the Tascam TMD1000 digital board.
One of the advantages I see and like is the fact that I can keep my music in the digital realm.
What I mean is this...
I can import my music into the board, then send it to the computer via TDIF, then send it back out to the board (at the same time, DIGITALLY) without degrading the sound.
So, instead of converting the imported music from analogue to digital and then back to analogue.
I go analogue to digital to digital. Once I get it into the digital realm I can keep it in the digital realm (unless, I wanted to give it a fatter or warmer type of sound, then of course, I would send it to an analogue device).
spin
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BigKahuna
New member
depending on the mixer, you get other benefits ... like mix automation, MMC control, surround panning, comps/gates on every channel, etc...
You can also do this kind of stuff with external gear .... but I find that it comes standard (or as an option) on a lot of digital mixers.
Plus the avoidance of additional D/A A/D conversions helps. But ... all my verbs are analog, so I have to convert to get the signal to them ... and then convert to get it back. However, once I capture a sound with a mic ... the signal is digital until it plays back thru the monitors. Which, I think, goes a long way quality-wise.
You can also do this kind of stuff with external gear .... but I find that it comes standard (or as an option) on a lot of digital mixers.
Plus the avoidance of additional D/A A/D conversions helps. But ... all my verbs are analog, so I have to convert to get the signal to them ... and then convert to get it back. However, once I capture a sound with a mic ... the signal is digital until it plays back thru the monitors. Which, I think, goes a long way quality-wise.
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getuhgrip
Bring Back Transfat!
Thanks Spin, Big K.
The TDM1000 is what I've been looking at. Price-wise, it's right where I need it to be.
Let me ask something that I don't mean to be provoking or challenging. Most of these guys here are working on computers. Maintaining or confining the siganal to the digital realm makes sense. So, why isn't everybody using digital boards? I hear Mackie from up there on the pedistal, but I don't hear about their digital units, if they're in that market.
Here's a dumb one....that Behringer (I can hear it coming!) with the on-board DSP is only digital as far as the effects are concerned, and it's not a digital mixer. Right?
Appreciate the input.
Thanks, Rick
The TDM1000 is what I've been looking at. Price-wise, it's right where I need it to be.
Let me ask something that I don't mean to be provoking or challenging. Most of these guys here are working on computers. Maintaining or confining the siganal to the digital realm makes sense. So, why isn't everybody using digital boards? I hear Mackie from up there on the pedistal, but I don't hear about their digital units, if they're in that market.
Here's a dumb one....that Behringer (I can hear it coming!) with the on-board DSP is only digital as far as the effects are concerned, and it's not a digital mixer. Right?
Appreciate the input.
Thanks, Rick
SPINSTERWUN
Active member
I would like to help you with the Behringer question, but I am not familiar with their products.
Sorry.........
spin
Sorry.........
spin