Hooking up monitors to Pulsar

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 4:45 am

don't do it: that will produce a mighty 'click' everytime you switch.

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 12:40 pm

Do they click when switching on and off!?
Hmmm, if that's the case using a mixer would be unavoideable. Sorry for being stubborn

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 4:08 pm

On 2003-03-12 17:22, otter wrote:
Why not just add a simple switch to turn off/on the signal running to the monitors.
I use this in my setup so i don´t have to power on/off the amp of my monitors.
There are several switches available even in HiFi stores. Most of them only contain plain switches, no active or passive electronical parts. So they can hardly mess your sound up.

ott

So something like this would not give me any *plops* or *clicks* that could damage my monitors? What are these things called what do they cost?

otter · Post by **otter** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 5:03 pm

like this for example:

http://www.hosatech.com/product_page_au ... ector.html

rodos1979 · Post by **rodos1979** » Mon May 19, 2003 6:25 pm

Hello!

I just got today my long-awaited Mackies HR624!

I had read this thread a long-time ago, but I need to ask 1-2 things, now that I have the monitors too.
The sequence I turn my gear on, is this:
a) I turn on the PC
b) I load SFP with a shortcut (at Below Normal priority, but this is irrelevant!

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c) I turn the Mackies to "ON" from "Standby"
d) I unmute them with the button in the front.
That way, SFP doesnot harass the Mackies when it initializes.
However, when I un-mute the monitors, I get a loud low-freq pop, which makes me worry. Could that be harmful to the speakers? Is it harmful to mute and unmute the monitors each time SFP initializes (or I change samplerate, or I load a project)... The sounds SFP produces when initializes sounds a lot less mean than the sound the MAckies make when I unmute them.
Mackie-owners, please shed some light!

Thank you

valis · Post by **valis** » Tue May 20, 2003 3:18 am

I've been told that having an external analog gainstage is essential because if you need to turn to volume down in pulsar to accomodate listening levels you're essentially bit-reducing the signal. Better to feed the hottest signal possible out and attenuate externally.

Being able to mute externally is an added bonus =]

rodos1979 · Post by **rodos1979** » Tue May 20, 2003 8:55 am

...mmm, I have never thought of it that way!... thank you valis for mentioning it!

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Tue May 20, 2003 10:08 am

For a nice hardware control room, check this out :

http://www.samsontech.com/products/prod ... &brandID=2

otter · Post by **otter** » Tue May 20, 2003 11:26 am

whoa , gotta get this !!!!!

rodos1979 · Post by **rodos1979** » Tue May 20, 2003 3:15 pm

it certainly looks nice!...but it is more than I need...I ll try to find something similar to the Hosa above, which will be cheaper too!

Astral Fridge Magnet · Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:30 pm

Hello all,

How would I know If I have damaged my speakers? I run on my PC Logic 5.5 and a couple of Pulsar cards which are directly connected to my Mackie HR 824s . One of the key commands in Logic is press 0 and the sequencer will stop running. The trouble is I have pressed this command when Pulsar is on the screen rather than Logic and this has the effect of wacking up the master volume control on my pulsar to full volume. In essence, the volume goes from below speaking level to a jet taking off in your living room instantaneously!!! I can assure you not a pleasant experience, especially at 3 0'clock a.m. This has happened to me a few times when I am not paying attention. Could I have damaged my speakers? The Mackies do have an overload protection switch, but can it react that quickly? As far as I can tell they seem ok. So what is a sign that they could be damaged? To me that is the risk of directly connecting your speakers to the Pulsars?

Thanks in advance for your responses

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:02 pm

one thing I noticed with damaged speakers was a sizzling sound from the woofers only at certain frequencies.
Quite easy to detect with a slow frequency sweep from low to high.
Fried tweeters are said to sound completely distorted, but I never heard it myself.

good luck to the Mackies, Tom

dehuszar · Post by **dehuszar** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 8:42 pm

I have found that when I switched from a Luna 24/96 to an A16Ultra (still using Z-Link), the loud snap has disappeared. Instead, there's only a little muffled digital chirping; nothing that would strain the cones or my ears in the slightest, though I think the chirping is coming from a grounding/shielding issue with my laptop as I hear some kind of chirping everytime the hard drive spins up.

I can only imagine there's some kind of peak guard in the A16U. There's also some sort of feedback protection as I realized that I had my mike running live out my monitors and nothing happened. Feeling foolishly brave I pointed the mike right at the monitor field. Nothing!

I'm not sure I'd recommend the A16U as a drop in solution for the snaps, crackles, & pops, but if you were planning on getting one anyway, you might hold off on intermediate gear purchases. The thing is truly sweet.

Sam