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Kniferide wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:02 pm Built a new rack for the studio. Gets all the preamps and patchbays up to eye level to keep my back from aching. Installed LED strips so I can see better while patching. rebuilt all of the patch snakes and am rewiring the XLR snake next. Should be good to go after that.

bassdriver wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 6:50 am Great work! Nice studio! Do you mix on that mixer or just use it for recording?

Kniferide wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 1:14 pm

bassdriver wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 6:50 am Great work! Nice studio! Do you mix on that mixer or just use it for recording?

On occasion. 3 or 4 of the songs on the last thing I made were summed on it. It's fine. nothing special as far as sound goes, but it is fairly quiet and the Aux outs get used for headphone mixes in the other room. To make things easier for Heather to record, with nothing plugged into the patch bay it is all normaled so the MOTU inputs correspond to the console channels so you can just kind of sit down and start working without messing around too much. Works like a big Tascam Portastudio. You can get these early 2000's Allen & Heath live boards for between $300-$600 all the time. They are far higher build quality over a Mackie, and I think sound a lot better. If you are looking for a bang for the buck for home recording, I can't thing of a better option. I got this one for $100 because my old place of work wanted it gone.

bassdriver wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:38 am Thanks! Good to know, if I ever need another mixer. I’m not only a big fan of Bone & Bell‘s music, I also love the sound of those records! Excellent engineering.

Nate Dort wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:36 pm Did a quick and dirty hack/rehouse of my Yamaha Reface CP into a 2U plastic rack case:

I added a standalone MIDI host PCB in there also, so I can connect my 61-key full-size keyboard directly to the yamaha box via USB without having to route MIDI cables and USB power anymore.

Weighs about a third of what it did before, uses a third of the external cables it used to, and I don't have to deal with a double-tier keyboard stand.

Kniferide wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:46 pm

Nate Dort wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:36 pm Did a quick and dirty hack/rehouse of my Yamaha Reface CP into a 2U plastic rack case:

I added a standalone MIDI host PCB in there also, so I can connect my 61-key full-size keyboard directly to the yamaha box via USB without having to route MIDI cables and USB power anymore.

Weighs about a third of what it did before, uses a third of the external cables it used to, and I don't have to deal with a double-tier keyboard stand.

They should just make rack versions of that whole line. The tiny keyboards suck

numberthirty wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:34 pm
It's like you guys can read my mind sometimes...