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- DM-4800
OK, not new to the studio workflow but very new to the DM series of mixing consoles. Recently ran into a fella that wanted to just recoup some of the cash he recently spent on gear and gave me a deal I couldn’t refuse. $1200 for a DM-4800 in great working condition (FireWire, Adat and TDIF Expansion Card, Meter Bridge included) and since I agreed to pick it all up, he also threw in his Argosy 90 Series desk!! Yeah... It was a steal...
Anyway, I had been in the market for a new digital desk because I’m relocating to larger dedicated studio space and was leaning really hard toward the Allen and Heath QU-32C but because I use a lot of outboard gear, I decided I’d be better off going with something that had inserts on every channel therefore solving my issue of 48v Phantom Power routing issues via my patchbay. I got the channel routing understanding under my belt now as I’ve been just figuring my desk out every other day about 2hrs at a time. I must say, once you understand what you’re looking it? It really does make a lot of sense. Using a friend of mine’s QU, I was able to see hands on the differences and similarities. Like math, all knowledge applies but when dealing with the DM-4800, you’re just dealing with more variety in said math.
Anyway, all that to ask three questions.
1: What is the best way, internal routing wise, to attain direct monitoring (while streaming the music tracks from the DAW) giving my artists 0 latency? Pretty sure I know the answer but I’d rather confirm or be told otherwise.
2: Are the inserts hardware only or can I say, send an audio track from my DAW to a fader for external mixing and processing and utilize outboard gear on that channel via the 1/4” insert? Would be cool if I could and if I could, what route would I go doing so? (Easy on the analog desks I’ve worked on but not so sure about the DM series)
3: I want to implement the Behringer P16-I and P16-M system into my studio making it simple for my artist to control their own audio mix and talkback volume. I was thinking I would just send 16ch of Adat via my Adat Expansion Card and onboard Adat connections to the P16-I for 16ch of Audio to a P16-M but this is a two part question.
A: Considering latency issues, what would you suggest for routing to the P16 of all of the available outputs on board (remember I have DB25 connections as well as ADAT that can all be sent to the Behringer via analog or Adat)?? I would like to utilize all 16ch on the P16.
B: what would be the best way you’d suggest I route a Talkback mic to the P16 system? Is the DM-4800’s onboard Talkback re-routable to a DAW channel so it could be sent to say, channel 16 on the P16? Or is it onboard only and only heard through the board’s physical outputs?
Hopefully you guys could give me some much needed insight so I’m not spending too much time going by manual and trial and error...
Thanks in advance!!
-Surge
Anyway, I had been in the market for a new digital desk because I’m relocating to larger dedicated studio space and was leaning really hard toward the Allen and Heath QU-32C but because I use a lot of outboard gear, I decided I’d be better off going with something that had inserts on every channel therefore solving my issue of 48v Phantom Power routing issues via my patchbay. I got the channel routing understanding under my belt now as I’ve been just figuring my desk out every other day about 2hrs at a time. I must say, once you understand what you’re looking it? It really does make a lot of sense. Using a friend of mine’s QU, I was able to see hands on the differences and similarities. Like math, all knowledge applies but when dealing with the DM-4800, you’re just dealing with more variety in said math.
Anyway, all that to ask three questions.
1: What is the best way, internal routing wise, to attain direct monitoring (while streaming the music tracks from the DAW) giving my artists 0 latency? Pretty sure I know the answer but I’d rather confirm or be told otherwise.
2: Are the inserts hardware only or can I say, send an audio track from my DAW to a fader for external mixing and processing and utilize outboard gear on that channel via the 1/4” insert? Would be cool if I could and if I could, what route would I go doing so? (Easy on the analog desks I’ve worked on but not so sure about the DM series)
3: I want to implement the Behringer P16-I and P16-M system into my studio making it simple for my artist to control their own audio mix and talkback volume. I was thinking I would just send 16ch of Adat via my Adat Expansion Card and onboard Adat connections to the P16-I for 16ch of Audio to a P16-M but this is a two part question.
A: Considering latency issues, what would you suggest for routing to the P16 of all of the available outputs on board (remember I have DB25 connections as well as ADAT that can all be sent to the Behringer via analog or Adat)?? I would like to utilize all 16ch on the P16.
B: what would be the best way you’d suggest I route a Talkback mic to the P16 system? Is the DM-4800’s onboard Talkback re-routable to a DAW channel so it could be sent to say, channel 16 on the P16? Or is it onboard only and only heard through the board’s physical outputs?
Hopefully you guys could give me some much needed insight so I’m not spending too much time going by manual and trial and error...
Thanks in advance!!
-Surge
