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[scottstephens]

Justice,

I own a recording studio and have since 2005 when I decided that I was getting too old and broken to do much live stuff. I actually went to school for Commercial Music Production" I should have just worked!

Anyway, Recording is a TOUGH way to make any money. As stated before, some kid has a " free computer program, a lap top, and yada yada yada". I am blessed that I have several clients who have followed me from the road into the studio and I work with a local production company. HOWEVER, I used to get about 10 calls a year for remote recordings, as of right now I've got 1 pending for 2019!

My studio does well, but I've had to modify the business model over the last couple off years.

The Soundcraft is a nice console if it is in good shape; check the POWER SUPPLY and get another if you want to keep it.

Recording equipment, like all sound gear,  means nothing to most clients. They don't know the difference and for amateurs the biggest deal is " I wan it to sound like....."

Good Luck, Sir.

Scott

[Justice C. Bigler]

Where are you doing them now and how would this improve your return $dollars?

Appears to be a liability more than asset..

I used to use the sound booth at the theatre where I used to work. I no longer work there, so now all I'm left with is my couch or bedroom, which the wife doesn't much appreciate.

[Dave Garoutte]

It sounds like you're adding a (portable) room to the house to use as a mixing studio, and getting a lot of the hardware included.
If the intent isn't to do remote recording so much (which everyone here seems to be discouraging) it sounds good to me.

[Art Welter]

At least 50%, or more, of the value of this unit to me would be as a room to mix the classical music live concerts that I work on.

Justice,
Most of the equipment in the truck sounds like it would not be your first choice, so it's value may not be worth too much, and may take up your limited space (and time...) while trying to unload it.
I'd prefer a small DAW mixing in the "sweet spot" to faders stretching wall to wall in a small room.

Considering 50% (or more) is the room, how does it's price compare to other RVs of a similar vintage with a similar (or greater) square footage?

Art

[Roland Clarke]

In one sense it looks like a bargain, but then you have to factor in everything from fuel, road tax, insurance, maintainance, etc.  Even the not so big boys just plug a laptop straight into the desk.  Need some audience mikes, through those up through the console and just mute them.  Some consoles even have multitrack recording on them, all you have to do is stick a drive on them.

There is no money in live event recording unless you are doing live to air and there are people that have these contracts tied up.

Do it if you can afford to write off the cost and spend some money on it, otherwise you are likely to lose your shirt.

[Justice C. Bigler]

So I'm here at the Kauffman Center in Kansas City, recording the Kansas City Symphony. And the house console is a DM2000.

We're not using it. We're recording everything to redundant JoeCo Black Boxes.

Just thought it was ironic since I have been considering how useful the the DM2000 still is. The biggest drawback that it has for me, is no DCA groups.

[brian maddox]

So I'm here at the Kauffman Center in Kansas City, recording the Kansas City Symphony. And the house console is a DM2000.

We're not using it. We're recording everything to redundant JoeCo Black Boxes.

Just thought it was ironic since I have been considering how useful the the DM2000 still is. The biggest drawback that it has for me, is no DCA groups.

You should talk to Andy Broughton.  His YammieQ MIDI software is super clever at adding control functionality to Yamaha consoles that they don't possess natively.

I wasn't sure if it worked with the DMs but i checked....

"YammieQ works with all modern Yamaha Digital Mixing consoles, starting at the DM2000 and up to and including the CL/QL series. No PM1D, PM10 or TF series. Sorry!
I believe the complete list would be DM1000, DM2000, 01V96, 01V96i, 02R96, PM5D, M7CL, LS9, QL (all), CL (all)."

[Justice C. Bigler]

You should talk to Andy Broughton.  His YammieQ MIDI software is super clever at adding control functionality to Yamaha consoles that they don't possess natively.

I wasn't sure if it worked with the DMs but i checked....

"YammieQ works with all modern Yamaha Digital Mixing consoles, starting at the DM2000 and up to and including the CL/QL series. No PM1D, PM10 or TF series. Sorry!
I believe the complete list would be DM1000, DM2000, 01V96, 01V96i, 02R96, PM5D, M7CL, LS9, QL (all), CL (all)."

Cool. I knew about his software, but wasn't sure if it worked with the DM2000  or not. I'll check with him. Hopefully it includes some sort of DCA functionality. Maybe he'll even see this thread and comment for us. 

[richard_cooper]

Just thought it was ironic since I have been considering how useful the the DM2000 still is. The biggest drawback that it has for me, is no DCA groups.

It's been a LONG time since I've used a DM2000, but I could have sworn it had the "input fader group master" functionality, that basically is a DCA group, and put the master on a user definable layer. Could be wrong about the DM2000 but I use it all the time on the 01v96.

[brian maddox]

Cool. I knew about his software, but wasn't sure if it worked with the DM2000  or not. I'll check with him. Hopefully it includes some sort of DCA functionality. Maybe he'll even see this thread and comment for us. 

I probably shouldn't speak for him, but i have played with YammieQ, so...

The concept of the software is that it will take ANY MIDI input and then output ANY combination of MIDI outputs.  The older Yamaha desks have a MIDI control assigned to EVERY parameter change you can make.  Using that, the trick is to find something you don't use [maybe the faders for inputs 80-96 for instance] and then use THAT control to generate a series of MIDI commands that do something you WANT the desk to do; like say group control of a bunch of input faders together, or add offset to them or whatever.

Andy i'm sure will chime in here shortly to clarify everything i got wrong.    But yeah, if you want to use DM2Ks but add control functions they don't already possess, YammieQ is just the ticket.

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