as final cut editors, how do you prefer to monitor audio?

[Mike Cohen]

while I use Premiere, the concept is the same. I have a piece of gaffer tape over the volume knobs on my speakers so no one touches the optimal levels. I also have gaffer tape over the trim pots on the inputs to my Mackie, calibrated so tone from Premiere timelines hits the right mark on my DVCAM deck. Then, like Shane, I use the volume control for either speakers or headphones. Most of the time it is headphones, since our office has an open floor plan with no walls!
Mike Cohen

[Rennie Klymyk]

I used to use a Mackie 1604 as it also functions as a switcher but it had just too big a footprint to keep close enough at hand to be convenient. I’ve settled on a 1202 vlz (the rca’s are useful) for it’s smaller footprint. Everything goes from there to an EV7100 amp to a pair of Mission 701 speakers. It sounds very real.

“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[John Davidson]

I use a Behringer Eurorack 2440 from guitar center with two M-Audio BX5’s (with a small pc subwoofer for a little extra kick so that everything doesn’t sound like the new metallica album). Before I bought the Behrenger I had been looking at more expensive Mackie mixers, but a few of the rooms we’d rented out over the years had problems with their Mackies that made me decide it wasn’t worth it (static when adjusting VU, bizarre balancing issues, etc). Granted, not all Mackies do that as I’m sure everyone will attest. My point is I got the same thing with my Eurorack that I would have gotten with a Mackie and I didn’t spend as much. I don’t regret not getting a Mackie. It’s never been missed.

I should mention I have a kona 2 that provides SDI audio to my digibeta, so my board is purely for monitoring. Were I to be laying back via analogue obviously it would be more important to go top of the line.
jd

John
President & Creative Director, Magic Feather Inc.

[Marc Bostrøm]

Here is a little different look:

We use Presonus Firestudio in our main suite and we are planning to install the Presonus central station in our secondary suites.

Definitely worth looking at.

Marc Bostrom
-| just another PRO FCP user |-

[Frank Philip]

This is probably the wrong area to post on this thread but I want to know how you are monitoring your audio. Currently I have a iMac with firewire out to my Canon XL1 for a digital to analog conversion to a 20″ monitor via composites. Is it better to run audio through iMac’s on board speakers or through the 20″ monitor? There’s an obvious delay between the video on the iMac and the 20″ monitor.

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[Chris Borjis]

I have a Yamaha O3D in edit 1 (yeah way overkill, but it was necessary to interface with a discreet *smoke for digital audio interface when I had it)

I have a mackie 1642-VLZ Pro in edit2.

[Adam Taylor]

hmmm, how do i say this politely…I’ve got a Big Knob !!

Its absolutely spot-on for my edit suite. All my inputs to FCP are direct from digibeta, so i have no need for a mixing desk. The mackie Big Knob does have plenty of options for various sources, and plenty of other features that i rarely use.

One great option it does have is a mono/stereo switch, so you can easily check audio mixes for phase problems.

adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk