Original Message                 Date: 04-Sep-01  @  01:41 PM   -   direct outs on 1604

steve

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greetings earthfolk, I come in peace. I bring you many gifts of womder from beyond the galaxy.

Anyway, so seeing as I`ll be managing to avoid all work for the next couple of years or so I decided to sell the 01v and drag the Mackie (or wackie as someone once told me) out of the cupboard and get the bugger fixed. I never had a manual for it and being the dopy bugger that I am, it was only when I was boxing it up to send to the tech that I noticed these direct out thingies on the back there - 8 of em. So I see channels 9-16 on the wackie have "track 1" through to "track 8" written below the faders so I`m guessing these route through straight to the direct out wotsits.

Right, so I guess I could just wait till it comes back and try for myself but I`m kinda curious about the uses for these things - I`m not totally stupid, I realise they`re for running stuff straight off to a multitrack recorder or whatever which`d be useful should I ever sort myself out a computer that works and stuff with a multi in soundcard but is there any other uses? And more to the point, is there any way to route whicher channels I wish through to the direct outs or are they hardwired? Could I route efx sends through to these as well?

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Message 11/19                 Date: 05-Sep-01  @  10:10 PM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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sc2 aint cheap influx, not cheap. I still have my joe meek c2 here anyway - they`re selling the buggers new for 140 now so thats another one I dont really know what to do with.

Guess I could keep it, I like the way you can crank those optical comps right up without blunting the sound like what happens with vca jobbies and it kinda coats the sound in candy in a smooth way so I dunno. If I sold it, I`d only get 2 dole cheques worth for it anyway so mebbe I should hang onto it, just a shame its one mono source or one stereo only really else it`d be all I need.

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Message 12/19                 Date: 06-Sep-01  @  01:50 AM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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hehe. SC2 is not cheap. youre right

tried the meek on your main buss? I like it!

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Message 13/19                 Date: 07-Sep-01  @  02:04 PM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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I like the sound of anything run through the meek - everything just becomes a bit more slicker and smoother, ya know?

Well I bought the behringer anyway, still dont have my desk back to check it properly but I`ve run some sh.it straight through it and its pretty nice, not particularly characterful but it does add I nice little edge to the sound so I`m happy.

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Message 14/19                 Date: 07-Sep-01  @  08:25 PM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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you know you need to let it warm up a good 20 minutes or so before itll sound like it should right?

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Message 15/19                 Date: 07-Sep-01  @  09:04 PM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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I wondered about that but I couldn`t see anything in the manual about it - guess thats why it sounded better in the shop.

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Message 16/19                 Date: 08-Sep-01  @  01:02 AM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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thats just standard practice. HHBs didnt say anything either but the pros I know are very emphatic about that. makes sense, too

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Message 17/19                 Date: 08-Sep-01  @  01:44 PM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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sure, it goes for all tube gear. when you use a tube mic you plug it in half an hour before recording session and dont touch it till the end. in fact, some big studios leave their mics allways powered up.

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Message 18/19                 Date: 24-Sep-01  @  08:20 AM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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For anything under $1500 you should check out the Really Nice Compressor. I think it's manufactured by a company called FML, but I maight be mistaken on the name. What I do know for sure is that it works extremely well and is very versatile in its applications, fairly simple in its operation, and sounds very good. VCA, so it will do the VCA thing, but some use that to effect, and if it's something you don't want in your sound, then it might be an indcator that you need to rework your sound or mix on the front end before even worrying about compression. If you're looking at spending more than $1500 then Pinnacle, Manley, Avalon and Universal all make really nice new unit and there are loads of old vintage unit that people love like Urei and a ton of others, but be prepared to pay for that stuff.


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Message 19/19                 Date: 24-Sep-01  @  09:11 AM   -   RE: direct outs on 1604

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FMR RNC. bout $150 only. sound NIIIIICCE. really nice 

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