This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Dnx- io

Monday, April 13, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Dnx- io

Huh?

You don't have to put connectors on the cables running from your de-embedder to where the signal is supposed to go?

Or do you buy prefab cables (that are always too long, and most of the time more expensive than a tech that does a custom build.)?

For adding cables when needed, why not have a pipe / gutter for cabling? Adding cables is easy that way.

Or, go beserk, as i already stated, for the price of one converter you can run a huge amount of cables to be future proof.

Leave the connectors off if you like.

Now i agree that in a file based studio there is no real need for routers / patchbays and stuff, but a few cables for monitoring...

So, let's agree to disagree.

Bouke

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From: 'mikeparsons.tv@gmail.com' mikeparsons.tv@gmail.com [Avid-L2]

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Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:37 AM

Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Dnx- io

I've done it all imaginable ways, Krone blocks, cable runs, patch bays, routing matrices but faced with building a new post house for myself 3 years ago I knew I'd rather drop a couple hundred bucks on converters next to the speakers than run lots of cable. Not least for the exact reason you mention, do I run 2, 4, 6, 8 cables and what about next year when 16 channel becomes a standard do I run 8 more or just buy a newer de-embedder? But the main decision maker for me was soldering XLRs or crimping BNCs...

I've loved embedded audio since i first saw it - even when DVEs used to strip the sound if somehow the signal got misrouted. Less cables is better cables, unlike pixels, bit depth, frame rate and screen size, where more is better.

Mike

On 4/13/15 3:31 PM, 'Edit B' bouke@editb.nl [Avid-L2] wrote:

Hmm

295 sounds cheap, but it also can get you half a mile of audio cable.

I don't see the logic in de-embedders for studio setups if audio outputs are also available on your box.

less hardware is less trouble, less energy consumption, less heat, less worries about sync.

(And probably less installation costs. Don't forget that on a de-embedder you still need connectors, so you end up with more connectors than running some audio cables...)

Bouke (Who still has some 24 audio cables between his desk and machine room)

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6512 AS NIJMEGEN, the Netherlands
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From: 'Job ter Burg (L2B)' Job_L2@terburg.com [Avid-L2]

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 9:18 AM

Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Dnx- io

OK, I have to correct myself here. 295 gets you a BMD box that extracts 8ch of AES. I had no idea that prices for solutions like that had dropped so much.

So, why even bother with 4 analog audio outs?

On 13 apr. 2015, at 09:05, 'Job ter Burg (L2B)' Job_L2@terburg.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

$DI-di$emebber$.

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