Tuesday, March 27, 2007
CE108 Audio Maintenance an Interfacing - Assignment
CE108 Audio Maintenance an Interfacing
This brief outlines the assessment regime for CE108.
Overview
You are to design a detailed and justified patchbay plan in order that an engineer could install the system from your plans into their recoding studio. Your work will be in report form.
You are to use the remaining LAB session to get to grips with this assignment.
Patchbays
There is a patchbay in every serious installation. The only people who don't use patchbays are amateurs, people who don't know about patchbays or people who know the advantages and understand what they are giving up.
A patchbay provides versatile and comprehensive means of interconnecting equipment and tie lines in a non-permanent manner such that various source and destination configurations can be quickly and easily set up to cater for any requirements that may arise.
Reasons to use a patchbay:
• If you didn't have a patchbay there would be cables all over the place.
• You would need lots of cables, all at different lengths and with different connectors if you didn't use a patchbay.
• Without a patchbay reconnecting equipment is very difficult.
• Not all connectors are built for repeated use.
• If you use a patchbay all the connectors are within easy reach, the connections are all the same, and lastly patchbays are very reliable.
Outline
To install a patchbay correctly all the equipment in the studio should be wired to and from the patchbay, with the exceptions being microphones, headphones, speakers and mains.
The equipment list for the studio you are to create a patchbay for is as follows:
Mixing Console
• 16 Line inputs
• 8 Group outputs
• 16 Multitrack outputs
• 16 Multitrack inputs
• 2 Folback outputs (sometimes called cue)
• 2 Monitor outputs (for control room monitor)
• 4 Aux outputs
• 8 Fx inputs (4x stereo)
• 2 Stereo inputs (L&R)
• 2 Stereo outputs (L&R)
• 16 Channel insert sends
• 16 Channel insert returns
• 8 Group insert sends
• 8 Group insert returns
• 2 Stereo insert sends (L&R)
• 2 Stereo insert returns (L&R)
• Oscillator
• Talkback out
Multitrack
• 16 Inputs
• 16 Outputs
Stereo recorder
• 2 Inputs
• 2 Outputs
Stereo FX unit, 4 of
• 2 Inputs
• 2 Outputs
Compressor
• 2 Inputs
• 2 Outputs
• 2 Sidechain
Noise gate
• 2 Inputs
• 2 Outputs
• 2 Triggers
Foldback amp
• 2 inputs
Power amp
• 2 inputs
Deliverables
Your assignment should contain the following:
1. Block diagram of how this equipment would normally be connected – this should show the signal flow from inputs to outputs etc.
30%
2. A description and the purpose of each item in the equipment list. Essentially you are explaining how and why the items are connected to the studio owner.
30%
3. A logically laid out patchbay design which clearly shows how each of the connected sockets are configured, i.e. half-normalled, parallel, open etc.
40%
The patchbay design itself will be fairly large and might work best on A3 paper size in order to be simple to read, this might be the thing you would see on the wall in a recording studio.
The design should have a key which indicates how the sockets are wired.
The assignment should be handed in to the admin office on E floor, no later than noon on May 18 2007.
Feel free to comment below.
This brief outlines the assessment regime for CE108.
Overview
You are to design a detailed and justified patchbay plan in order that an engineer could install the system from your plans into their recoding studio. Your work will be in report form.
You are to use the remaining LAB session to get to grips with this assignment.
Patchbays
There is a patchbay in every serious installation. The only people who don't use patchbays are amateurs, people who don't know about patchbays or people who know the advantages and understand what they are giving up.
A patchbay provides versatile and comprehensive means of interconnecting equipment and tie lines in a non-permanent manner such that various source and destination configurations can be quickly and easily set up to cater for any requirements that may arise.
Reasons to use a patchbay:
• If you didn't have a patchbay there would be cables all over the place.
• You would need lots of cables, all at different lengths and with different connectors if you didn't use a patchbay.
• Without a patchbay reconnecting equipment is very difficult.
• Not all connectors are built for repeated use.
• If you use a patchbay all the connectors are within easy reach, the connections are all the same, and lastly patchbays are very reliable.
Outline
To install a patchbay correctly all the equipment in the studio should be wired to and from the patchbay, with the exceptions being microphones, headphones, speakers and mains.
The equipment list for the studio you are to create a patchbay for is as follows:
Mixing Console
• 16 Line inputs
• 8 Group outputs
• 16 Multitrack outputs
• 16 Multitrack inputs
• 2 Folback outputs (sometimes called cue)
• 2 Monitor outputs (for control room monitor)
• 4 Aux outputs
• 8 Fx inputs (4x stereo)
• 2 Stereo inputs (L&R)
• 2 Stereo outputs (L&R)
• 16 Channel insert sends
• 16 Channel insert returns
• 8 Group insert sends
• 8 Group insert returns
• 2 Stereo insert sends (L&R)
• 2 Stereo insert returns (L&R)
• Oscillator
• Talkback out
Multitrack
• 16 Inputs
• 16 Outputs
Stereo recorder
• 2 Inputs
• 2 Outputs
Stereo FX unit, 4 of
• 2 Inputs
• 2 Outputs
Compressor
• 2 Inputs
• 2 Outputs
• 2 Sidechain
Noise gate
• 2 Inputs
• 2 Outputs
• 2 Triggers
Foldback amp
• 2 inputs
Power amp
• 2 inputs
Deliverables
Your assignment should contain the following:
1. Block diagram of how this equipment would normally be connected – this should show the signal flow from inputs to outputs etc.
30%
2. A description and the purpose of each item in the equipment list. Essentially you are explaining how and why the items are connected to the studio owner.
30%
3. A logically laid out patchbay design which clearly shows how each of the connected sockets are configured, i.e. half-normalled, parallel, open etc.
40%
The patchbay design itself will be fairly large and might work best on A3 paper size in order to be simple to read, this might be the thing you would see on the wall in a recording studio.
The design should have a key which indicates how the sockets are wired.
The assignment should be handed in to the admin office on E floor, no later than noon on May 18 2007.
Feel free to comment below.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Back In The Saddle?
Forgive us AuxMix for we have sinned....
It has been far too long since we used you and took good care of you. I hope you do accept us back with loving arms.
Well too bad if not cause we are going to kick your butt anyway!
It has been far too long since we used you and took good care of you. I hope you do accept us back with loving arms.
Well too bad if not cause we are going to kick your butt anyway!
