AEA TRP (The Ribbon Pre) first version. Missing knobs, PSU, and the top/front and sides of the chassis. paid ~$80 for it.
Manual says 2x 18V AC for power, and it has a 7 pin midi-esque connector. Closest I have is a brick for a little Mackie mixer. Figured out the pinout and connected with some jumpers. Just plugged my headphones into the TRS outs 'cause, I can't use the mackie in this scenario. Works great. Score.

Last weekend the Midas Venice 32 playback cut out all the sudden except when a track was solo’d, but it happened well past midnight on a Sunday where I had to be up in a few hours, so I left it until later to get sorted.

Went up there again. Tested the master outputs, they worked fine, but still nothing in played back on the monitors until I solo’d a track, so I exercised the ever-loving shit out of solo buttons of the last two channels I’d messed with, thinking that had to be it, wondering if it was possible to break it further. Eventually I absentmindedly adjusted the speaker volume like I do all the time and it occurred to me that the goddamn tape mode was on. Switched it back to master and voila. This is why I pay to do this.

I've been working on a non-audio related project in an attempt to grow a small non-profit I'm part of. The head of the organization found some potential donors who are "model train enthusiasts" hoping to modernize their setup. I personally don't give a shit about model trains, but it's been an interesting technical project. Thanks to some very committed people in that community, there are some awesome free open source tools that are pretty impressively developed. I've got an arduino with some accessories doing the heavy lifting, and a PC running bitfocus companion which fucking rulez.

My day job is AV support at a college. Bitfocus companion is basically a free open-source version of control systems like Extron, and it's built to use off the shelf elgato Stream Decks (and some similar devices) as control surfaces. So basically I'm using my AV control programming experience to program this in much the same way. There's a lot of developed modules for video stuff, but there's also a fair amount of audio stuff as well. Allen & Heath, Behringer/Midas, DANTE, Digico, SHURE, and Yamaha RCp all stood out as I scrolled through. Anyway, if you're into that sort of thing, and you've got gear with some kind of control protocol, this seems like it could be great for tying things together and doing some pretty advanced control. Or if you're a camgirl and you want to run your setup from a streamdeck, you can do that too.

https://bitfocus.io/companion

thecr4ne wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 11:48 am.

https://bitfocus.io/companion

Makes my entire world work. The shit you can do with companion and vmix is amazing, especially if you use variable commands.