frederic
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Thanks John for putting my stuff up so quickly!!!!!
MISTERQCUE
Not Just Anutha Brutha
All right!!!!!
My man Johnny-Boy Sayers is back!!!!!!!!!!
What's up John!!?? GLAD YOUR'E BACK!
As you have heard SOOOOOO many times b-4, I've going to submit some new photos of my 98.3% finished stoo-dee-o basement flick! Soooon!!!
frederic,awesome construction!!!!!!!
My man Johnny-Boy Sayers is back!!!!!!!!!!
What's up John!!?? GLAD YOUR'E BACK!
As you have heard SOOOOOO many times b-4, I've going to submit some new photos of my 98.3% finished stoo-dee-o basement flick! Soooon!!!
frederic,awesome construction!!!!!!!
frederic
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Re: All right!!!!!
Thank you, its much appreciated!
I'm just hoping it holds together better than the birdhouse I made a few weeks ago that lasted about six hours on the tree
Thank you, its much appreciated!
I'm just hoping it holds together better than the birdhouse I made a few weeks ago that lasted about six hours on the tree
Tim Brown
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frederic said:
Damn Frederic! You've got some bucks in that gear! As much as I hate electronic drums (I'm a Drummer....I've got a set of ddrums as well as acoustics- but's it's STILL not the same!
)That's a cool layout.
and how do you like the 1000's? I have DA-38's, and I'm seriously thinking about going that route, and relegating my Mackie to live use...and then just buying a bunch of Mic Pre-amps to get the stuff onto tape.
Cool set up man!
Tim
frederic
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Damn Frederic! You've got some bucks in that gear! As much as I hate electronic drums (I'm a Drummer....I've got a set of ddrums as well as acoustics- but's it's STILL not the same!
Not to brag, but I moved to this house last May, and have unpacked about 60% of the gear. I have enough rackmount stuff to fill the back racks, minus two samson 2242 mixers I just sold on e-bay (9U a piece).
I agree about electronic drums, however for me there are major advantages. First, I can pack them up when not in use (which is most of the time). Second, when I "borrow" my drummer friend's time, he can stop by after work (and he gripes about electronic drums too), but he can lay a track or two down without having to drag over his very nice, very large double-bass 10 drum Pearl Export. Plus cymbals, plus stands, plus other stuff. Third, I don't have to spend 2 hours getting microphones right <grin>. Anyway I agree the used pads I have aren't anywhere near as good as a real drum of any sort, one thing thats very cool is I can capture via Midi his playing style, and merge it in with the rest of the stuff I do.
Fred <-- Midimonkey
Thank you. For the amount of "engineering" time we spent designing the layout, I'm happy with what we ended up with. Originally, the gear was supposed to be mounted in 7' racks to the right of the top diagram on the website, if you can picture that. Then the problem became there is no room for a vocal booth, and, I still can't walk in the back of the room since the ceiling slants down, and making a dormer is not an option at this very moment in time. Next summer, I get a dormer (and another floor! Yippeeeeee!)
I like the TMD1000's a lot. The three in the picture you see were purchased on e-bay for anywhere from 350 to 499 plus shipping. VERY inexpensive considering what you get.
If you have a sole DA38, its great. If you have more than one, you'll need to cascade the mixers, as each mixer gives you eight analogs, and eight TDIF digitals for the tascam recorder that you have (and of course, other models too).
They have built in effects, including reverb, compressor, parametric EQ all around, etc, etc, etc.
Keep in mind however they are 4-bus mixers, however if you want to record all eight tracks simultaniously, its easily done. Just have to tell the mixer to connect the TDIF connector to be "direct out", and there ya go. problem is you can't have some channels go direct out, and busses 1-4 simultaniously on the same TDIF connector at the same time. Ways around that too
If you are into 96K recording, this is not the mixer for you. If you do 44.1K or 48K, its a fantastic little mixer. As you can see from the photos of my studio on John's site, they look snazzy next to each other, even with the larger 4000 I have to the right. To make them line up right, I used an ordinary black pipe (for natural gas, I had one lying around) and put the palm rests over that. LIned right up
There are two things I find annoying about the TMD1000's, both of which one can get used to. If you want to automate the mixer, it uses all 16 midi channels, thus requires its own port. I have four 8 channel midi interfaces, so this wasn't a problem for me, but those who have only a soundcard with one midi in/out, AND midi synths or other things, will find this annoying.
The second thing is the compressor works backwards. If you look at any compressor on the market, whether it be a piece of crap or a $2000 studio version, the higher the knob reads, the more compression you have. The TMD-1000 is backwards, the lower the value, the more compression you have. Just takes a little while to get used to.
Regarding the microphone pre-amps, they are decent. In fact, considering the price of the mixer, they are awesome
. SSL/Neve/Oxford they are not, however they are fairly transparent and a little minor adjustment to the EQ will do you right.If you want external mic pre-amps, depending what you buy you'll get a better sound. I use the pre-amps on the TMD-4000 (the larger one in the photo) for vocals as it seems more transparent to me), and use the line ins on the smaller, TMD1000 mixers. Micing drums on the TMD1000 never caused me any grief, but then again, I'm not a drummer
What is neat is the mixers can be cascaded, s/pdif out to s/pdif in, then set the mixer to have s/pdif in feed one of two aux returns. This way, you don't lose any valuable mixer channels daisychaining them.
Hope I helped. I'd be happy to share any experiences or answer questions if you like, I have become rather intimate with these little mixers.
Frederic
midiguy732@hotmail.com
Cool set up man!
Tim [/B][/QUOTE]