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You can see the before picture just a couple of posts up from here...
Now when the rig comes home to mix through the desk, I only have a handful of dsubs to connect, rather than the bouquet of trs connectors. Thanks to slut Kevin Ramsey for putting together the rack panel for me. After hours of soldering, I was left wishing I had paid him to do the whole thing.
But it's done, and I am a happy man! Note the addition of a presonus firestudio lightpipe...
Now, in the field, it operates as a 24 track rig as I described in my earlier post, except now all 24 channels of conversion are done by the HD24xr, and the presonus handles DAW input duties. I maintained firewire connectivity to the profire just for the sake of versatility and the ability to make changes to it's i/o as necessary, and all clock sync is done via lighpipes, slaved to the presonus when in studio mode, slaved to the HD24 in the field.
Via the dsubs in the studio, it's 16in x32out. I can get another 8 inputs if I want to patch to the m-audio with TRS, and I do, for foldback and 2mix.
I eventually plan to go multipin of some kind on my preamp inputs in parallel with the XLR patch points on the front, and convert one end of my input snakes as well, ultimately doing the same to the transformer rack's outputs, not pictured.
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