| Re: APB Dynasonics Spectra-T - Show Report [message #128163 is a reply to message #127870 ] |
Thu, 25 May 2006 10:57   |
Rick Stansby
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Registered: November 2004
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| Tim McCulloch wrote on Wed, 24 May 2006 04:21 |
Rick-
The dbx 120 a "sub-harmonic sythesizer" that has a sub/main crossover function of 6dB/oct. but from what I can tell, left/right control is ganged.
Tim Mc
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Good catch that was a typo, I meant dbx 160, which lots of guys seem to have on their L,R. Basically what I'm saying is that if you have your signal going through an EQ, or compressor you can quickly balance the gain there, even if the board doesn't have multiple master faders.
To be honest I generally prefer multiple faders, but this Master fader has more power, because it can control matrix sends as well as the 4 main busses. I'm thinking of it as a ninth VCA for controlling output faders.
Rick
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| Re: APB Dynasonics Spectra-T - Show Report [message #128200 is a reply to message #127497 ] |
Thu, 25 May 2006 15:01 |
 Teri Hogan
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Registered: April 2004
Location: South Central Texas |
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I have to jump in here with my .02. We've had our 32-channel Spectra-T for about five weeks now and we are just amazed. I really don't have anything to add technically, as it seems to have been pretty well covered. But we've been showing this console around to engineers in the field and seeing is believing. We took it out to a huge festival with six stages. On day 1, I had it at my stage. On day 2, I sent it over to another stage to be used by another sound company and put up the Verona. Four engineers mixed on it and eights others came by to see and hear it. Now you all know you can never get a bunch of audio engineers to agree on anything. But all twelve engineers said the same thing: "I'd take the APB over the Verona any day!"
This console has more quality features than anything on the market in its price range. As Chuck told me, "We wanted to make a console that would allow production companies to make money." What a concept!
I had balked at the paradigm shift in console construction. I really hated the idea of 8 inputs to a module. If I lose one channel, I have to lose 8 channels to ship it off for repair? Pleeeeeeze! APB has addressed this in a completely logical fashion. Each input is "plug and play". If you lose a channel, you call 'em up and tell 'em, they overnight you a new card, you pull out the bad one, insert the new one and you're good to go. Now how logical is that?
To date, the only complaint we've had is that the yellow solo lights are impossible to see when working outside in the day time. They're working on it.
Name recognition is the only obstacle we see for APB and I sincerely feel that this will be overcome quickly. I just can't say enough good things about this desk!
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| Re: APB Dynasonics Spectra-T - Show Report [message #132817 is a reply to message #129681 ] |
Fri, 23 June 2006 07:58 |
Brad Snow
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Registered: June 2006
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Having had consistent success with the APB team’s earlier efforts, it was a no-brainer to order a Spectra-T 40 & 4. Now that it’s here, I am also as impressed with both its features and sonic quality as the rest of you. While we are waiting for a proper case for it from R&R, we were able to take our GT-40 out of its case and drop the Spectra-T in to use it right away.
The feel is that of a more modern and efficient analogue console, packed with useful features like sweepable HPFs and VCAs while not giving up valuable real estate to stuff not essential – like sub-groups. While I’m in the group that passionately hates the single master fader knob since I often use left and right to feed entirely different things different levels, the alternate outs do make it possible to work around this one hurdle when necessary.
Ditto on all the cool jack field features mentioned already, and flipping the jacks so one can get to the locks in such tight quarters definitely blew me away. A very smart console from a very smart company! Will probably order another one soon.
Brad Snow
Director of Pro Audio
Snow Sound/HB Group
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Need more auxes? No, not really. I have a 40X20 LM...plenty of mixes there. And I LOOOOOVE my LM! But if a regional sound company wants to remain competitive, it has to be up-to-date on gear and my LM is getting a bit long in the tooth in that respect. I'm just awaiting the arrival of the Spectra-M (I guess that's what they'll call it) next year and I have a potential buyer for my LM now, which means I need something to get me through the rest of this year. That's why I'm so excited about how well the Spectra-T performed as a monitor desk. True, it doesn't have output EQ, but I can work around that for one season if I know its sister is coming soon. After all, APB can't birth them all at once!