This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] todays edit room

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] todays edit room

I went through this last year. My Terrablock died and the cost to replace it was way more than all of the equipment listed below with tons of Thunderbolt storage. I just felt that while it was great box, it was overkill for my business.

So I dumped my Mackie and now have a behringher XENYX QS02 that I use to monitor audio. Its footprint is roughly the size of a small note pad. Now I have room for my laptop on my console where the Mackie use to sit.

I went with the most loaded iMac I could buy (27", 32GB of RAM, wish I had an SSD but...oh well). I have two 6TB Lacie Big Disks on my console as well and use the AJA Ttap for monitoring. I found that even though I could run two monitors, the Thunderbolt issues made it less than ideal (too few ports and wonky loop through performance). But the monitor is large enough that by using Spaces for each major app it works very well. (Editor on Desktop 1, Photoshop on 2, AE on 3, Web browser on 4, etc).

Now my suite is much less crowded andmuch more quiet. Really, the only issue is connectivity with my Tape machines, but I kept my old system and moved it into the equipment room so that as I need old projects or whatever I can access it using Screen Share or just through the network. I really now use it as a dedicated machine for my occasional DVD duping job because I didn't feel the need to buy updated software for my BravoPro since it works just fine as is.

I also added a Mac Mini and LTO6 for archiving with BRU PE software in one of my racks. I am using my dead racked Terrablock 12D as a desktop for the mini's monitor and keyboard. It is the most expensive desk I have ever used.

YMMV. Good Luck.

Benny Christensen

Producers Playhouse

Oklahoma City

405-858-0700

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill

On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:32 PM, Ricardo Ismach bad-dog@casualdog.org [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Or the Presonus equivalent...

http://www.presonus.com/products/Monitor-Station-V2
Ricardo Ismach  Casual Dog Productions, LLC
On 6/16/14, 8:25 PM, blafarm@yahoo.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
Given your workflow, you might consider dumping the 1604 and buying a Mackie Big Knob:

http://www.mackie.com/products/bigknob/