I got to use the Legend 3000 Console. It was the 48 channel version but still it was damn big already. Confirm cannot put inside the tiny cage. This is a picture of the board that i got to use. Very cool i must tell you and I must really say that the board is really designed for the engineer and not designed for the engineer to learn.
Q went through everything with me on this board and its really amazing. The way it mutes certain circuits when it is not in use to reduce noise floor, the way it routes its matrix channels, the way it inputs ambience sound into its aux channels, simply amazing. Surely you won't find anything like that in a Yamaha console.
Q was like fiddling with his Smaart Live software cause it wasn't working and in order to teach me how to EQ, he needed that software to show me the graphs. Unfortunately his Smaart wasn't that Smaart yesterday so in the end cannot teach me EQ but he still taught me all the kinds of EQ, like shelving, parametric, constant Q parametric, proportional Q parametric. All these weren't known to me until yesterday. So thanks to him i got to know more!
By the time we finished everything about the Legend 3000, it was 2 hours later. So we moved on to the XL8! Woots!
Q was like fiddling with his Smaart Live software cause it wasn't working and in order to teach me how to EQ, he needed that software to show me the graphs. Unfortunately his Smaart wasn't that Smaart yesterday so in the end cannot teach me EQ but he still taught me all the kinds of EQ, like shelving, parametric, constant Q parametric, proportional Q parametric. All these weren't known to me until yesterday. So thanks to him i got to know more!
By the time we finished everything about the Legend 3000, it was 2 hours later. So we moved on to the XL8! Woots!
Damn cool piece of mixer. It's so good that i won't even say that it is like a mixer but instead its more of a audio network system. No audio processing is actually done on this board. Really! Although it has like 7 Pentium 4s in it plus 5 more dunno what processor, just not from intel. Really damn good. The 5 screens in front are high contrast monitors so no need to worry that cannot see. The faders fly like so damn cool and all the functions are just mind blowing. Again, it is a mixer designed for the engineer and not designed to let the engineer to learn. I picked up how to use this board in quite a fast time. Midas paid a lot of attention to this board. Attention to how engineers get so worried about the values when on a digital board causing them to slow down, attention to like what if there was suddenly a board failure and what should the system react to, all these made up the XL8. Seriously its one of the most amazing and impressive board i ever seen.
As i said, the board does not do the processing on board so it has 22 outboard modules in order to run with it. It has ten DL471 DSP Engines, two DL461 Audio System Signal Routers, five DL451 Audio System Modular I/O, four DL431 Audio System Input Splitters and One DN9331 Klark Teknik Helix Rapide. All this for one board. And the best part, it runs on a fibre cable and it has a redundant 2nd fibre channel in case one fails and even if it fails all of a sudden, the sound will stil be there, just that there is no control over the sound but it does not mean an instant mute. Damn powerful.
96 channel is a standard for this board. You may ask, 96 channels but the board is so short? That was my qns too but then i realised this damn thing is actually like a page thing. You can flip the page to the next page and all the channels will change on the display! Its like OMGWTFBBQ! And even more cool thing is this. There is a layer B function so i can actually work on one of the bays on this board, which actually has 5 bays, and what im working on is independent of what another person can be doing on the other bays. Its like effectively having 2 separate mixers to control the same thing. Seriously i have NEVER seen such a board with all these functions before. Crazy shit but very impressive. I really nothing to say but just go wow!
Learned the XL8 operations then it was about time to go home. On the way home, Q lent me his Westone earphones. OH MY TIAN! I listen to that earphones liao then feel like throwing away my HiFi system. Its like a few WORLDS APART. Damn good la! The bass is so deep and so punchy and the mids is just SHIOK!
Okay enough geeky stuff liao before SOME people poke fun at me with my geekness again. Haha.
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