Jebis. How and what interface are they, Madi? Something proprietary? What are the specs and can they even be used with a modern system of any kind? I'm so intrigued.thecr4ne wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
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So as I understand it, these were designed to work on a proprietary fiber backbone. That said, there are MADI modules available as well as AES67 and Dante and such, but these don't have them (I'd like to get some though). My guess is the analog rack was in one location, and the AES/EBU rack was in like a control room or something. The software runs on a PC, connects via usb or serial and controls all the routing and DSP and whatnot. Stagetec also makes digital consoles that interface directly with these, there's one listed on sound broker for like $30K....Kniferide wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 12:43 amJebis. How and what interface are they, Madi? Something proprietary? What are the specs and can they even be used with a modern system of any kind? I'm so intrigued.thecr4ne wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
thecr4ne wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
Should sound awesome I hope! I no wonder what they sound like clipped?thecr4ne wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 11:26 amSo as I understand it, these were designed to work on a proprietary fiber backbone. That said, there are MADI modules available as well as AES67 and Dante and such, but these don't have them (I'd like to get some though). My guess is the analog rack was in one location, and the AES/EBU rack was in like a control room or something. The software runs on a PC, connects via usb or serial and controls all the routing and DSP and whatnot. Stagetec also makes digital consoles that interface directly with these, there's one listed on sound broker for like $30K....Kniferide wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 12:43 amJebis. How and what interface are they, Madi? Something proprietary? What are the specs and can they even be used with a modern system of any kind? I'm so intrigued.thecr4ne wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
As for does it work on a modern system...not yet. I'm currently in the process of trying to install WIndowsXP on something so I can update drivers and firmware to work with modern OS and current software version. These units were delivered in 2005, but they're still making them, and there's a compact version that looks like it's the size of a mac mini with 8 ins and 8 outs via DB25s, and it's already got the Dante and AES67 compatibility built in. https://www.stagetec.com/en/nexus-audio-matrix
Apparently the AD conversion on these is pretty good, it converts via 4 chips at once and then recombines or something to minimize errors. My whole goal is to put together an out of the box workflow/hybrid recording setup. I've got a DDA DMR12 32 channel console and an Otari MX80 and a bunch of outboard shit I wanna play with. We'll see where it goes.
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