Archive for January, 2007
I found this video on youtube, who ever put it together did a great job. Enjoy.
Without a doubt the new iPhone is pretty sexy. Like everyone else I really want one however, I’m not too excited about having to switch cell carries to get one. So…where is the widescreen iPod? What if I don’t want a cell phone / ipod / navicom thingy and just want the widescreen ipod with some kick butt PDA features. Not to mention I also would like to have more than 8G’s of space to play with. Here’s hoping that Apple is just waiting to announce this upgrade and that it’s on par with the current iPod prices.
UPDATE:
A few hours after making this post I found this on the net. Perhaps we’ll get a little extra surprise during the Super Bowl? Hmm…can’t wait.
We’ve had some time at The Alley Theatre to get to know in the in’s and out’s of our new Yamaha M7CL Digital Console. First, let me just say that I really enjoy working on this thing. It has some problems, so if it seems like I spend too much time talking about the bad points it’s only because I would love to see these issues fixed.
Inputs/Outputs
I have been working with the 48 input variety since October. That’s a lot of inputs! However, some of the shows we have been running come very close to maxing them out. I can see how working on a musical could become very crowded, all in all, I love all these beautiful inputs. We also have the MY16AT expansion card the gives us and additional 16 channels of digital audio. Our SFX computer connects directly to the console this way. Remember though…there is no gain on most digital inputs…digital 0 is digital 0…fix your sound files if you need more oomf!
The output section is pretty funky. 16 Mix buses, 8 Matrix Channels, and the LCR Buses. Here’s what’s funky, there is no real difference between any of them except the labels. Assigning an input to a output is exactly the same process for each output section. There are no hard assigns, you assign input channels via rotary knobs (virtual of course) to the desired output level. Your basically working with a giant 24 channel matrix if you want…which I think is pretty great.
Here’s a warning if your thinking about buying additional output expansions: You don’t get anymore virtual sends in the console. Which means you will not have the option to treat newly installed outputs as a new Mix. This is something I wish Yamaha would add to the software. For now, you can either assign these outputs to a mix bus, there by losing the original output or, you can use these expansion slots as direct outs. Which would be great if we needed a monitor console.
More on the M7 coming soon…
I just finished reading this book. It was a fun read I have to say. The philosophy behind it wasn’t all that earth shattering but I did enjoy the line, “The sponge doesn’t know he’s having a bad day.” I really need to stop saying this…it’s driving some of my friends nuts.
I went and saw “Children of Men” for the second time tonight. Yes…I am gushing about the sound design like most other audio heads. It also happens to be a pretty darn good flick to. I particularly love the road ambush scene…some really great sound work happening there.
I have to give credit where credit is due though, during the Ark for the Arts scene, Phil Cassidy spotted this little gem during the flick. Turns out the place is housed in a Pink Floyd Album. How sweet is that!?
