Question for Mike/G3456 or anyone with good eyes...
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Is that a Behringer Ultrgraph DEQ1024 EQ in that pic?
How do you like it? im considering buying one for the rack im going to start making soon so itll be in conjunction with a guitar rig, so do you rekon it will be suited for this purpose? have you had any problems or the like with this unit? churr dude \\m/
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The only thing I have ever had a prob with Behr gear has been the jacks. But that's the same with many products I use. I simply solder the jacks where they are wave soldered from the factory. I never have to service them afterward. Being these are fixed units, not being moved chances are slim you'd have to do that. USE GOOD CABLES. The Behr board (24ch) there is now the DDX3216. We use Crest and AH at the big studio. For home stuff, behr gear is great. Most of that gear though is for other areas of the studio, like drum room, voc room for users that like analog. I've used Sonar prod and VSTi's for everything else.
The EQ is great Live and I have 3 in our pro sound rental kits, and 6 more in fixed installations. The only drawback is you have to turn it on prior to the power amps, speakers, monitors etc. It does not mute at power up and will make a pop sound when you turn it on. No biggie, other devices like Avalon/Joe meek etc in our main studio do the same thing. I guess they figure most users would power all preamps before mains anyway.
When you look at desks, racks, consider making your own. I made that desk for 70 bucks...instead of 500-2000 for pre fabbed ones. The control room is shaped like a superman diamond. By design there are no parallel walls and less studio foam was req'd other than a few traps and about 40 squares. That's an old pic from 2 yrs ago. I've modified the desk and added another mon/3216.
on another note... what was the reason for replacing the SL2442 board? was it the motorised faders or digital features of the DDX? or was it because the SL wasn't suited for the job? I have the SL on my to-get list also and was going to use 8 insert jacks to send to a M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card, but also use the SL for jams and gigs...
3216 is great for Scene saves. I wanted a digital station like a Yam, or tascam but the price was 4x that of the 3216 that dropped significantly. I was looking at the bigger analog 9000 console but it was too big for the desk. 3216 allowed for many sends, automation and is great for the YAM Edrums.
I use the home studio for small stuff. Local band demos, Wed bands, Soloists. I also use it for rehearsals. The 3216 gives scene automation for all those situations. So for band rehearsals, I just select the scene for that. For recordings and such, same thing. Up to 99. The biggest thing was needing something quiet enough for inserts going to the VS2000. In that, I can record each rehearsal for those things like outro's and part layering which we always forgot at the next practice. When a player says, what'd we do there..it's easy to track back and take a listen. For orig's and just throwing songs together on a whim, it's awesome. We just get together in the Cont room and listen to our performance. With Acoust Drums, Edrums, BNX3, GNX4's we all play through headsets, or jam in the Live room with monitors. Saves our ears big time from the normal live rigs in confined spaces. Especially away from live drums. If we use acoust drums, those are confined to that soundproof room. It took the members a while to get used to it, but they love the accuracy and purity of the environment. We started playing like that late 04' and will never go back to live rehearsals.