Mackie 1402 and Kona3

[Ron Thompson]

The mixer side of the Tascam is also analog, so you will still need converters to get sound in and out of the Kona3. The Control Surface side is firewire, I believe, so that’s fine.

[Athenross]

Ah yes. Well, that would be better still, I would think, rather than paying for two separate hardware tools.

Thanks again!
~Athen

[Bob Zelin]

there is no delay when monitoring off the RCA jacks on the K3 box audio monitor outputs. You DO NOT need the ADA4, or ANY digital to analog audio converters, as this is EXACTLY what the 2 RCA jacks are for on the K3 box – they convert your audio into a simple Left/Right analog audio monitor output. If you are doing 5.1 surround sound, this will not be sufficient, but 99% of the editors out there are still just monitoring in stereo.

Any of these cheap mixers are not control surfaces, but I have never seen anyone use the JL Cooper controllers on the AVID systems (people bought them, but they never used them), and I have never seen anyone use the Mackie HUI (and other surface controllers) when using the FCP application. So you are certainly welcome to purchase a surface controller, but it’s just not popular. People simply want to monitor the audio, and your actual audio is send via the video cable (embedded audio), so you are not worrying about the audio path – either analog or AES – it’s all in embedded in the video signal. You use the Mackie 1402 for nothing other than to monitor your audio signal out of the Kona 3 – using the RCA jacks !

Bob Zelin

[Dan Riley]

I would also use the 1402 for mic inputs, or other audio inputs,
but to do that you would need A to D converters,
because the K3 has no analog audio (or video) inputs
correct Bob? AJA has converters you recommend?

Dan

[Bob Zelin]

Dan –
we can sit here for another 20 posts discussing this. Stop with the external converters – if you have ANALOG sources, bite the bullet, and buy an AJA I/O LA, and be done with it. You will have absolutely everything you need, for $995. Like I said, we can sit here, and say “well, you can spend $300 for this, and $400 for that”, but in the end, owning an I/O , and the Kona 3 is fantastic. If you were starting from ground zero, you would simply buy an I/O HD today, and have everything. But you already own the wonderful Kona 3, and you must deal with analog sources. Do yourself a favor- stop listening to everyone elses advice – buy an AJA I/O box, and have every analog input possible available to you, that you can think of.

Bob ZElin