Kim Rowley
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If you read down a few posts you’ll see that I was in your same situazione. I found a good monitoring solution using the 25 pin output of the AJA. The cable though was going to cost me
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Just a quick followup. After hearing that the cable cost
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Hey Chrispy,
The Mac guy that installed my FCP system and AJA says that all outputs are always active so these would be in addition to the regular XLR outputs. It’s only an output so no ins I’m afraid. The cable is called DA88XM-2. This is a 2 foot cable with one DB-25 multipin connector to 8 male XLR 3 pin connectors. But you can order it in other configurations as well.Hope this helps,
kimDual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3
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Thanks. Just wanted to check before forking out the $50 for the cable.
Good luck in your work.
KimDual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3
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Bob, I didn’t find your post insulting at all. (I will admit when I posted I did kind of hold my breath waiting for some wrath the come down the pipes.) At any rate thanks for your time. I follow eveything you (and the other posters have said). I can easily buy a mixer and it is not emotionally hurting me to so. I will happily change the way I work and input and output footage if I can do my job better.
Step by step here’s my current way of doing things.We have a central machine room with 1 BetaSP deck and 2 digiBeta decks, plus VHS and UMatic for the odd archive material that comes up. I am not alone. More than one edit suite has access to all the decks as needed. As I said, all these are connected to a large patch bay. As are all the ins and outs of the AJA. I can feed whatever I want to FCP and adjust levels either before digitizing or during editing. If I want analogue Beta inputs I patch the outputs of the deck into the analogue inputs of the AJA.
Please note I have an amp and mixer in this machine room and hence can monitor the audio as I lay back to tape at jobs end. As I said in a previous post 99.9% of the time I lay to Digital Beta through the SDI connector (audio and video.) The Digideck’s analogue outputs are routed to the mixer and I monitor everything through the deck as I’m laying down to tape. If there are adjustments to be made I go back to FCP and fix it there.The AJA is physically in my edit suite and not in the main machine room. It’s dedicated solely to my G5. It’s here where I have another amp that is fed the XLR analogue outputs of the AJA to monitor my audio during the editing process. And it’s here where I don’t see how the mixer fits in. Maybe it’s due to the fact that nearly all of my digizing is done with the Digibeta VTR and embedded SDI audio. Since the Digibeta VTR plays back also Beta SP, I almost never need to change anything. One SDI In/Out patch does it all. I realize that in another setup a mixer is indispensable and in fact I do have a mixer in the main machine room.
The Sony amp in my edit suite went on the blink after years of faithful service and had in fact a volume control. The new one I’m considering (Beringher A500) also has a volume control for each channel.
So, see, I’d gladly fork out the necessary money for a mixer. That’s not the point. If I can make it make sense I’m happy to change. We try to keep the signal at the highest possible quality all through the production chain and things have worked for years. I don’t have an attitude problem and so am open to other people’s experience. Hence the courage to overcome making a fool of myself in this revered community!
Thanks to you and the others that have taken the time to answer.Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3
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I’ve been mulling everything over in my mind and am going to risk another potentially dumb question. I have never used a mixer in my editing experience – neither in AVID, M100. (Of course I did in the traditional online tape to tape suite). It’s not clear to me why I need a mixer at all. Isn’t it enough to go straight from my AJA XLR outputs to the amp?
We have a main machine room at the center of our facility and evey potential signal is routed through our patch bay (both video and audio). Same holds for the ins and outs of the AJA. As of this year I have a patch bay for all the 9 pin connectors too so there’s no more going behind the VTR’s to swap them. I just patch whatever I need whenever I need it. What advantages would a mixer give me in a setup like this?
Thanks for the patience! And since we’re nearing the 31st, Happy New Year!
kimDual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3
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Got the message loud and clear. Thanks for the sound advice. (No pun intended : ) )
I already had singled out the Mackie 1402 mixer and perhaps the Behringer A500 amp… I promise to listen no more through the MAC!
Happy New Year to you all.
KimDual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3
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Thanks for the info. I’m sure it will all come together with a little more research.
All the best, KimDual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3
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Great food for thought, Paul.
Thanks a million.Kim
Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3
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Points well taken. The AJA has both analogue and digital outputs, though currently I’m only using the SDI In and Out. I just saw the Mackie unit you mention this morning on the web. I have to look into further as I think besides the control surface unit I’d still need an amplifier if I don’t have the self powered speaker, right? It’s kinda pricey ($1000 on the B&H website), but may be worth it….
At the risk of sounding publicly really stupid… what exactly is a PPM unit?
Thanks Paul.
kimDual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3