New mixer from Allen & Heath

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That does look sweet. I'm not familiar with their stuff at all--any guess as to how much that might go for?
 
WhiteStrat said:
That does look sweet. I'm not familiar with their stuff at all--any guess as to how much that might go for?
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Don't know but Presonus is coming out with a similar unit and Yamaha has the n12. The n12 goes for $1500.
 
The Presonus unit looks nice. But none of these has enough busses, a studio mixer should really have eight busses. Less than that is almost crippling.
 
The Zed mixer isn't too special in my opinion. The mixwizards sound much better than the zeds. I mean, the colors are hip and all, but the sound quality is far from pristine. It sounds like a Mackie VLZ rather than a Allen & Heath. Also the USB function is helpful for a small scale home recording enthusiast, but as you jump in the price point of the boards, it seems to be less practical. I saw these at NAMM and they look cool, but thats about it.
 
danico4not said:
The Zed mixer isn't too special in my opinion. The mixwizards sound much better than the zeds. I mean, the colors are hip and all, but the sound quality is far from pristine. It sounds like a Mackie VLZ rather than a Allen & Heath. Also the USB function is helpful for a small scale home recording enthusiast, but as you jump in the price point of the boards, it seems to be less practical. I saw these at NAMM and they look cool, but thats about it.
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The new Zed is firewire and it looks like they are using different preamps
 
SonicAlbert said:
The Presonus unit looks nice. But none of these has enough busses, a studio mixer should really have eight busses. Less than that is almost crippling.
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Albert, what is the fetish with busses? I have never really understood peoples need for "at least 8 busses" or however many. My console has 24 buss and I really never use them. I set up a mix for headphones and send it to the people. I assume you want the ability to say, bring drums down with only 2 faders ( stereo) rather than all 8 or 10 drum faders? Or all b/up vocals down at one time? Maybe because for that last 7 years or so all my playbacks are via computer and I group things from there.
 
SonicAlbert said:
The Presonus unit looks nice. But none of these has enough busses, a studio mixer should really have eight busses. Less than that is almost crippling.
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That would probably help for someone with a MUCH bigger operation than me. The n12 I use has very flexible routing and bussing. It's got a record bus, auz bus and stereo bus and with it's integration with Cubase it's got more flexibility than I could ever use.
 
jmorris said:
Albert, what is the fetish with busses? I have never really understood peoples need for "at least 8 busses" or however many. My console has 24 buss and I really never use them. I set up a mix for headphones and send it to the people. I assume you want the ability to say, bring drums down with only 2 faders ( stereo) rather than all 8 or 10 drum faders? Or all b/up vocals down at one time? Maybe because for that last 7 years or so all my playbacks are via computer and I group things from there.
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You can use the busses instead of the direct outs to feed your recorder. For example drums, say you're using 7 microphones, you've balanced each input and your happy with the mix. you can then send them to a separate bus so that when you want to cut the drums out or lower the over all sound you don't have to mute or lower each fader & mabye destroy the drum balance you had. Instead all you have to do is mute or lower the stereo bus fader all of the drum inputs have been sent to.
 
hello all,

i've never done a post, or thread, or any kind of discussion thing before...i'm not even sure which i'm doing now, if it's thread, or post, or....whatever.

the reason i signed up and am writing this is I am looking for guidance with regard to my home studio set up...I have an E-MU1820, and Nuendo on my PC.

I am wondering if there is a way to incorporate a tube mic preamp into the mix. I've been using the xlr inputs on the E-MU, but they're a bit noisy, and not quite as dimensional as I would like...any ideas on what preamps are good...mostly i'll be recording a vocal and acc. guit. track....folky stuff. and then woodwinds like flutes...i found the PreSonus TubePre single channel....is that good? or do you know of anything that is great, that won't send me into debtors prison? cheers, urmy.
 
jmorris said:
Albert, what is the fetish with busses? I have never really understood peoples need for "at least 8 busses" or however many. My console has 24 buss and I really never use them. I set up a mix for headphones and send it to the people. I assume you want the ability to say, bring drums down with only 2 faders ( stereo) rather than all 8 or 10 drum faders? Or all b/up vocals down at one time? Maybe because for that last 7 years or so all my playbacks are via computer and I group things from there.
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Well, since you are grouping things in the computer you are probably using at least eight busses anyway. Whether it is done in the computer or in the mixer it's the same thing conceptually.

The reason for the busses is for example to compress, eq, or otherwise effect different elements of the mix in groups. So for example you might use send the drum buss to a specific compressor, the guitars to another, and the vocals to another. That's six busses right there and we haven't even gotten to bass, backing tracks, keyboards, etc.

Busses allow some really nice fine tuning of a mix.
 
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