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820-106

Welcome to 820-106! 

Studio 820-106 is suitable for recording, editing and mixing sound projects and offers a small vocal booth with good acoustic isolation of vocals and smaller instruments such as an acoustic guitar from the control room.

This guide covers the fundamental specifications, signal path and operational aspects that may come in useful for various recording and project specific situations.

Fixed Equipment list:

  • iMac with Protools and Logic Pro
  • Apogee Symphony MKII
  • Genelec 1031A
  • SPL Model 2381 Monitor and Talkback Controller
  • Avid S3 Control Surface

 

Guide Contents :

  1. Signal Path in 820-106 and vocal booth
  2. Apogee Symphony MKII  and Patchbay configuration
  3. Using the SPL 2381 Monitor & Talkback controller (MTC)

 

  1. Signal Path in 820-106 and vocal booth
  2.  Apogee Symphony MKII and Patchbay Configuration

The Symphony MKII is our central hub in 106 and does all our analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversion (total 32 in/32 out) via thunderbolt. It has a front touch panel where you can control some of its core function such as levels, and engaging soft limit on the input channels.


1. Headphone level (touch to focus)

2. Monitor Speaker Level (touch to focus)

3. Headphone Output, controlled by 1.

4. Home Tab

5. Monitor Tab, you can mute, dim, mono sum either HP/Monitor

6. Input Tab – You can engage soft limit on/off on each individual channel.

7. Main Knob, follows focus

8. Power on/off

 

Patchbay Configuration

Most of the outboard units including the Monitor Speakers are all connected via the patchbay setup in 106. This is the current layout and may change in the future to accommodate upcoming needs. For now it is worth noting the following.

  • UA-710d Outputs 1-4 are half-normalled into Symphony Input 25-28 (This means Either Protools/Logic Pro Input 25-28)
  • Symphony Out 1-2 are half-normalled into MTC Mix In
  • Symphony Out 3-4 are half-normalled into MTC Musician In
  • Cue Mix Output from MTC is half-normalled into HP4 in booth

More on half-normal vs full-normal patchbay configuration on another post! (coming soon)

3. Using the SPL 2381 Monitor and Talkback Controller (MTC) 

1. Listening source for the control room (Mix = Computer/DAW, Musician = separate Cue mix if setup).  Note when both Mix and Musician buttons are engaged you can control the blend of the 2 signal by adjusting 10.

2. Speaker select (select SP1 for the Genelecs)

3. Mono button, push to check your mix in mono

4. Dim – attenuates 20dB

5. Needs to be turned on for 11. to work

6. Main volume knob for Speakers and/or Headphones connected to 11.

7. built-in Talkback mic

8. Cue mix blend section, here you can adjust level between Cue/Mix

9. Talkback toggle button and level

10. Blend of Cue/Mix level in control room

 

To book this space – https://practise.creative.auckland.ac.nz

conditions of use – max 3 hours per session (especially during assessment periods) and please no clean after use for the considerations of others.