Rotary Mixers

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Gene,

the faders are 11.5 cm long, they go on forever and there is almost no resistance on them, they are sooo smooth.

Havent tried the rotary pots yet waiting for them to get here but i think i will prefer them but its nice to have the options.

As for early impressions, the headphone amp is crystal clear and really powerful a releif after going deaf listening to distortion on my old board, cue section is also very good, though it doesnt do split cueing, you can cue all four channels just by hitting the cue buttons.

The eq is a little tricky, as are the effects in that you really have to watch your gain as you make adjustments, tweaking any of the frequencies makes a significant difference in sound levels the mixer is fairly easy to clip. The effects though are great and very useable. i will have fun playing with them because they can be as subtle or in your face as you want, they really are that controllable.

I am still getting used to the parametric sweep on the mids, for all you eq killa fans out there -- is this the same principle that the eq killer works on?


the high/ low pass band/notch filters are a little tricky to use with a full signal as the make a radical difference to the signal that is just not smooth enough for use on your live channel.

Strangely i find the sound is so clean that i can get away with blending channels using very lttle eg. I was much more heavy handed with my other mixer and for a very good reason. it seems this is unnessecary here in most instances? Anyone noticed this with their mixer? is it just a quality thing?


Sound quality. wow.

i havent hooked up the spdif digital record output, but have been running off the booth monitor channel because the spdif requires the master 2 volume be cranked and thats the one the runs the master 2 rca outs. Master one uses xlr jacks and i havent got a set yet, anyone know if you can do xlr to rca?

Anyways back to sound and recording -- crystal, i am hearing stuff during playback that i have never heard before. I am pulling out voices and other sounds. I am also hearing a punch from my system that simply wasnt there before. suffice it to say that i am well chuffed.

As i said before we cranked it on a PA beside a 600, and there was a very audible sound difference.

anyways enough blather

TS
 
sniff said:

Strangely i find the sound is so clean that i can get away with blending channels using very lttle eg. I was much more heavy handed with my other mixer and for a very good reason. it seems this is unnessecary here in most instances? Anyone noticed this with their mixer? is it just a quality thing?
TS

First, great post. It's good that you describe everything in detail like that, so future users will know the daily ins and outs of the thing.

Can you control the WET/DRY mix on the effects, or are they just "on as hell" when you use them? I don't even know what a notch filter sounds like and why you would use one, honestly. I'm soooo uneducated.

About EQing: When I had my Stanton RM80 I would use the EQs heavily during every transition, which I think had a negative long term effect on the quality of the mix. With the Rane I barely touch the EQ Killers, except to isolate vocals and instruments at times. I'm thinking maybe it's because there's more headroom on the mixer, or each channel individually has more "place" in the full mix? I can't really explain, but I've observed what you describe. At most I bring the outgiong channel down by 5% - 10%.
 
tlack
Thanks, i wanted to describe it clearly, because there is very little about the actual use of this mixer on the net.

As for the effects, yes there is a wet dry mix and you can choose your separate channels or apply the effect to the whole master.

As for the notch band filters, i am still riding a learning curve. I would actually like to know more because the stanton manual for this beast is very thin, not much there really.

but they have this to say:

notch works as highpass frequency control
band works as lowpass

then there are high and low cutoff adjustments for each of these but the filters wont allow you to work wet dry, they are either on or off. you can cue monitor the filters, but so far this has proved tricky. If anyone understands the in and outs of these filters, i would love to hear an explanation.

cheers
 
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