Hey everyone,
it's been a while. Recently I met another owner of the DM3200 who - as it turned out - bought his machine just recently on ebay. Of course he had many questions, and as always, when your confronted with things you think you know about like the back of your hand, some questions put me to my limits, and I'm here to ask some experts.
Outputs on the backside
One of the first questions was, how I would connect my DM with my studio speakers. I told him via balanced Monitor Outputs with the 1/4" jacks. He then asked me why I wouldn't use the stereo output - and I shrug my shoulders.
Honestly, for me the reason is
a) I always thought of them as outputs to another recording machine for summing or things like that
b) AFAIK there is no way to get a mono signal by hitting mono on the DM when your studio speakers are connected with these. I could be wrong though, maybe when I catch my signal on a bus, and go from there to the stereo outputs, but I am not sure.
I'd be very interested in your insight, and how you make use of the XLR-Stereo Outputs.
Studio L/R (cinch connectors)
Honestly, I never had use for them. But I think, they could be used for a second pair of monitors either as second listening devices or to connect any speakers in a recording room to communicate with musicians there.
What is your thought on these? How do you make use of them?
2 Trk In
OK, this one is obvious - I have em hooked up to my patchbay so that I can send in signals from different devices with cinch outputs. Maybe you have some better use / idea for them?
Sends and Returns
Oh, yeah, don't let me start with these! I learned here on the forum that the Inserts of every channel can open up hundreds of possibilities for connections. I, for example, have stereo jack all the time in my Insert, with the strands connected to my Patchbay - so I can grab the signal there, route it somewhere else, and it feed it back to the same channel.
Then there are the 4 asignable sends/returns. I told him, the difference between them comes down to: the assignable ones can be routed to any of the DMs channels, whereas the Inserts are hardwired to their relating channels. Anything to add to this?
OK, that's all. Hopefully I didn't tell too much crap to my pal - and if so, I promised him to give him an update (I really would have loved to add him here to the forum, but unfortunately he does not speak english)
Thanks for reading,
have a great week
snafu
it's been a while. Recently I met another owner of the DM3200 who - as it turned out - bought his machine just recently on ebay. Of course he had many questions, and as always, when your confronted with things you think you know about like the back of your hand, some questions put me to my limits, and I'm here to ask some experts.
Outputs on the backside
One of the first questions was, how I would connect my DM with my studio speakers. I told him via balanced Monitor Outputs with the 1/4" jacks. He then asked me why I wouldn't use the stereo output - and I shrug my shoulders.
Honestly, for me the reason is
a) I always thought of them as outputs to another recording machine for summing or things like that
b) AFAIK there is no way to get a mono signal by hitting mono on the DM when your studio speakers are connected with these. I could be wrong though, maybe when I catch my signal on a bus, and go from there to the stereo outputs, but I am not sure.
I'd be very interested in your insight, and how you make use of the XLR-Stereo Outputs.
Studio L/R (cinch connectors)
Honestly, I never had use for them. But I think, they could be used for a second pair of monitors either as second listening devices or to connect any speakers in a recording room to communicate with musicians there.
What is your thought on these? How do you make use of them?
2 Trk In
OK, this one is obvious - I have em hooked up to my patchbay so that I can send in signals from different devices with cinch outputs. Maybe you have some better use / idea for them?
Sends and Returns
Oh, yeah, don't let me start with these! I learned here on the forum that the Inserts of every channel can open up hundreds of possibilities for connections. I, for example, have stereo jack all the time in my Insert, with the strands connected to my Patchbay - so I can grab the signal there, route it somewhere else, and it feed it back to the same channel.
Then there are the 4 asignable sends/returns. I told him, the difference between them comes down to: the assignable ones can be routed to any of the DMs channels, whereas the Inserts are hardwired to their relating channels. Anything to add to this?
OK, that's all. Hopefully I didn't tell too much crap to my pal - and if so, I promised him to give him an update (I really would have loved to add him here to the forum, but unfortunately he does not speak english)
Thanks for reading,
have a great week
snafu