To PT HD owners

[crillemannen]

HI,

Im about to buy a PT HD system, and i got a pretty noobish question.

If you for example Digi's own interface (or apogee,lynx etc) how do you connect your monitors?? Do you need a monitor controller??
Is the easiest way just to buy a command 8??
Please enligthen me

Though i have worked on PT HD system before, this hasnt striked me before because they either had a control surface of some kind haha

Cheers / Christ SWE

 

[ahjteam]

 

[greyskull]

yeah youll need a monitor controller if you dont want fixed monitor gain.
recommend the presonus central station.
however the command 8 is pretty daym cool

 

[Metaltastic]

The best bang-for-your-buck monitor controller seems to be the TC Electronic Level Pilot

 

[LydonB]

Dangerous DBox ftw.

 

[MetalJonesy]

i just use a nice small mixer unit for CR control room levels if not using a dedicated mixing desk

 

[DigitalMetal]

I use a command 8,
But you dont need a controller straight away, you could just use the master fader in the PT software untill you decide what controller to buy.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Where I interned they used this niffty little device by benchmark called a DAC1 (although looking at the picture it looks a bit different) it was nice because it could be mounted right on tom of a drum practice pad stand and placed right next to you. IIRC it was not cheap though...

 

[DigitalMetal]

Thats a DAC (as in digital to analogue converter) a damn good one too, bit expensive to use as a monitor controller and you alrady have some damn good converters in the 192 (if you use one)
maybe worth getting id you have a 96io as the converters arnt so good - but thats a whole other topic.

 

[C_F_H_13]

Best idea is to get something as simple as a mackie big knob or a presonus central station. They are cheap (by comparison to buying an HD rig) and work great. You'll definitely want a monitor controller, as going from a 192/96 straight into monitors has disaster written all over it.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

+1 the centralstation kicks ass

 

[elmuchoescadawg]

http://www.peavey.com/products/browse.cfm/action/detail/item/115024/PV(R) 6.cfm

This seems to do the job for me at the moment.

 

[crillemannen]

Ok cool and thnks for the response guys