![]() ![]() The closest comparable product is probably the Yamaha N12, given its digital mixer, Firewire audio interfacing and simplicity of control, but that has fewer preamps, fewer channels of Firewire audio and no Scene memories. If you don't really need the StudioLive's powerful, hands‑on cue mixing, and you're actually more concerned with tactile control and processing at mixdown, then you can get 16 high‑quality preamp inputs (as well as digital and MIDI inputs) for much less money in rackmount form, leaving you with cash in hand to invest in more flexible processing plug‑ins and a moving‑fader control surface. Some users may find the monitoring latency through the console (in the order of 3ms) a bit unnatural when working on headphones: the delay is not as large as with software monitoring, but is still noticeably different from monitoring in the analogue domain. The lack of word clock synchronisation or elevated sample rates may put off some audiophiles, but the vast majority won't give that a second thought, especially because PreSonus's A‑D conversion sounds nice and clean. In such circumstances, the ability to record completely clean preamp outputs, and at the same time have good talkback and fast hands‑on control over monitor‑mix processing/balancing is great. ![]() If you're looking at the StudioLive exclusively for studio use, you probably need to be regularly recording ensembles, requiring multiple cue mixes, to make the outlay justifiable. It still seems rather laborious to me, though. I spoke to PreSonus about this, and it is apparently intentional: they say that they anticipate people leaving the Solo monitoring button on all the time, and just switching Main off when necessary. ![]() If you're monitoring your mix, then, and decide to solo something, you first have to turn off the Main matrix button and engage the Solo matrix button before it will work, and reverse the procedure when you want to hear the mix again. If you do this and have nothing actually solo'ed, you don't hear anything, whereas I'd expect the monitoring to default to the main mix in this case. The normal PFL/AFL didn't work quite as I'd expected: the problem is that in order to hear just the output of the solo bus, you have to select only the Solo button in the monitor matrix. Solo‑in‑place worked fine, with internal and external effects returns remaining solo‑safe, but there was no option to defeat this for the external returns if you wanted to use them for, say, sound modules rather than external effects units. It's nice to have a good range of solo modes, but I still felt that improvements could be made. ![]()
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