Non sodering Board?

[ZelenRecords]

Any recomondations on a console? I do not want to do any sodering. I am putting together a cheap studio. I need 4 mic imputs, and maybe another 4 for cd/md/etc.

Is it more expensive to get a digital console? And do components like CD/MD fire off of digital consoles.

 

[BrokeEngineer]

It's soldering BTW...

Define cheap studio.......Radio On Air, production, recording studio, internet? Digital air consoles will fire CD/MD, production/recording boards like the Yamaha O1V or O2R will not.

 

[pianoplayer88key]

I used to think it was s-o-t-t-e-r...

nt

 

[ZelenRecords]

Re: It's soldering BTW...

> Define cheap studio.......Radio On Air, production,
> recording studio, internet? Digital air consoles will fire
> CD/MD, production/recording boards like the Yamaha O1V or
> O2R will not.
>

This will be Radio On Air. Here are the specs I need:

4 Mics
2 CD player
2 MD players
1 computer
1 Telephone

That's really it. I don't want to spend over 5000

 

[SamBuca]

Re: It's soldering BTW...

> 4 Mics
> 2 CD player
> 2 MD players
> 1 computer
> 1 Telephone

www.radiosystems.com

We have their Millenium (I guess they misspelled millennium on purpose?) 12 chan console. Each pot has A/B selectable input and you can get an expander card for more selectable inputs you route to a pot. Has 3 buses...2 stereo (program/audition) and 1 mono telephone bus. A ZILLION control room/headphone selectable inputs.

REALLY easy to hookup, decent quality, great price. Inputs are screw terminal blocks. The only soldering you'd have to do is if you need to pad any of the channels beyond the normal settings....there are special connectors you solder together and then put it in a socket on the board.<P ID="signature">______________
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[Link]

> Any recomondations on a console? I do not want to do any
> sodering. I am putting together a cheap studio. I need 4
> mic imputs, and maybe another 4 for cd/md/etc.
>
> Is it more expensive to get a digital console? And do
> components like CD/MD fire off of digital consoles.
>
z. you may want to take a look at the archives of the radio engineer
list at http://www.broadcast.net/pipermail/radio-tech/

These guys have talked about everything you would be interested in over the years and you can get a lot of great tips looking into the archives. I would also say that there is alot of used broadcast stuff on ebay. You may want to consider some of the types of board previously used by college radio ect if you can find something in good condition. Good luck with your studio. BTW lots of equipment is not that expensive. Radio has always had alot of operators that were really cheap.

 

[Les]

Re: It's soldering BTW...

> This will be Radio On Air. Here are the specs I need:
>
> 4 Mics
> 2 CD player
> 2 MD players
> 1 computer
> 1 Telephone
>
> That's really it. I don't want to spend over 5000

Take a look at Autogram's Mini-Mix 12. Well within budget.
Comes, as I recall, with inputs for two mics. I vaguely
remember there being an option for four mics but couldn't
find it in the brochure. The board itself is a couple
of thousand miles from where I am just now so I can't even
look at it...let alone read the manual. Has a built-in
hybrid though a little unconventional, it does work well.
Start buttons provided for machines.

Each of the high-level sliders supports
two inputs; one balanced (screw terminals) and one
unbalanced (RCA connectors). Installation is easy and
fast. I used one at an AM/FM because the I/O setup was
perfect and the physical size was like it was designed
for the limited space available. So far, in service for
six months without any difficulty.

Depending on how you plan to use the various players, you
may be able to scoot by with their 8-input version and save
more bucks.

In a perfect world you might use AudioArts (Wheatstone)
R55 but the physical sizes available are quite a bit larger
than the Autogram and the price m u c h higher.

If unbalanced is OK for your high level stuff in all cases,
look also at AEQ. It was a close second when I had to choose.

For my own stuff, I use a $99 Behringer and love it but I
would find it hard to use for live on-air. Maybe, if you're
going to build a station, you might want to consider the
smaller Autogram for the air studio and the Behringer for
a small production room???


Additional info:

Just located this using Google:

AUTOGRAM MINI-MIX 12A 12 CHANNEL AUDIO CONSOLE ( Excellent Condition, NEW Power
Supply, 25 Stereo Inputs ... Complete With DB-25 Cable And Manual ) $ 199.00 ...
www.baycountry.net/used_equipment.html - 14k


Even if it has just two mic inputs, consider using it plus a $99 Beheringer
upstream of one of the high-level inputs so as to have two on the main
board and another five cascaded. How often will you be using all of the
four that you specified? I have done an installation using the B-Board
upstream of an R55E to add mic inputs AND to create stereo micing for
recording live musicians.

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