The PARIS Forums: PARIS: Main » Big Ben and DAC1

Home » The PARIS Forums » PARIS: Main » Big Ben and DAC1

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator

Big Ben and DAC1 [message #87946]

Wed, 11 July 2007 11:50

Wayne Carson

Messages: 86
Registered: June 2007

Member

Hi all,

It's been a week since I hooked up the benchmark and clock to my simple
1-MEC w/two 8-in, 2-EDS, 1-C16 system. I used 3' apogee cables on both and
one 75 ohm term on the MEC s/pdif out. I did not use a bnc "T".

It made a wonderful difference. I set the BB clock to internal at 44.1k and
used the bnc out to the MEC. I set Paris to word clock. That's it. It
locks at 44.1. I think I can even hear jitter on previously recorded stuff,
specifically on vocals when solo'ed, but then again it could be the coffee!

I've run 8 completely different song mixes that I am working on and it is so
much easier to find and correct things and so far appears to translate very
similar to my simple home stereo system, bedroom Bose/CD wave radio and '04
Honda Accord car sound system. And that's what it's all about for me. This
should make for a whole lot less trial and error mixing. My '06 Tundra
truck sound system is not even close, but that's another issue.

In my studio, I individually A/B'd the clock and the DAC against the Paris
L/R monitor out and internal clock. In each case the clock and/or the DAC
cleaned up the low/mid mushiness, allowed the kick to be heard with the bass
and not a boom but a punch, spaced out the depth, ambiance and stereo field
and overall gave clarity to the mix. Paris EDS efx's are more
distinguishable now.

Previously I used the Paris L/R monitor out to my 1604vlz (ch 15-16) trim
off, eq flat, level at unity and the main's out to my Alesis RA-100 (yah, I
know it's not so good, but I thought I was getting a decent flat ref amp
when I bought it back in '96.) to yama's NS-10's and a sub under my desk for
fill and to curl my toes.

I was very suprised to find out how bad the Mackie colored the sound. A
very noticable harshness around 1-2khz and possibly higher, lack of warmth
between 100-300hz and just an overall sound like crowded, cramped, busy and
flat tonality. Tweaking the 3 eq's helps but only removed about half the
problem. This is compared to the MEC digita s/pdif out to the DAC1 and it's
XLR outs to the RA-100 to the NS-10s. This sound was warm and round, almost
surround. It put a smile on my face.

I'm a happy camper. Special thanks to Dave, Kim, DJ, Miguel, Jeff and Neil.
I guess my next purchase will be an appropriate reference pwr amp.

Thanks,
Wayne
Paris since '97

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Big Ben and DAC1 By: Wayne Carson on Wed, 11 July 2007 11:50
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Gantt Kushner on Wed, 11 July 2007 12:09
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Wayne Carson on Thu, 12 July 2007 00:21
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: BradLyons on Wed, 11 July 2007 13:43
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Wayne Carson on Thu, 12 July 2007 00:36
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: BradLyons on Thu, 12 July 2007 05:49
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Gary Flanigan on Thu, 12 July 2007 10:33
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Wayne Carson on Thu, 12 July 2007 11:08
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: rich on Thu, 12 July 2007 11:30
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: BradLyons on Thu, 12 July 2007 12:03
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Rod Lincoln on Fri, 13 July 2007 06:50
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Brad Lyons on Fri, 13 July 2007 07:31
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Neil on Fri, 13 July 2007 19:05
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: BradLyons on Sat, 14 July 2007 15:46
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: audioguy_editout_ on Fri, 13 July 2007 23:32
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Nil on Sat, 14 July 2007 15:38
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: BradLyons on Sat, 14 July 2007 15:45
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Neil on Sun, 15 July 2007 08:26
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: DJ on Sun, 15 July 2007 09:34
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Gantt Kushner on Mon, 16 July 2007 00:32
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Aaron Allen on Mon, 16 July 2007 05:22
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: audioguy_editout_ on Sun, 15 July 2007 20:44
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: DJ on Sun, 15 July 2007 23:19
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: BradLyons on Mon, 16 July 2007 18:36
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: TCB on Fri, 13 July 2007 07:45
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: BradLyons on Thu, 12 July 2007 12:07
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Wayne Carson on Thu, 12 July 2007 22:16
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Aaron Allen on Thu, 12 July 2007 22:24
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: audioguy_editout_ on Fri, 13 July 2007 23:33
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Bill L on Wed, 11 July 2007 19:41
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Wayne Carson on Thu, 12 July 2007 00:30
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Bill L on Fri, 13 July 2007 05:08
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: DJ on Fri, 13 July 2007 05:52
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: Wayne Carson on Fri, 13 July 2007 10:19
		Re: Big Ben and DAC1 By: DJ on Wed, 11 July 2007 20:59

Previous Topic:	FYI: A free tube AMP plugin!
Next Topic:	DJ and people with complex setups

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Sun Nov 10 01:48:37 PST 2024

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.03433 seconds