[Cojo]

Originally Posted by h2000

Well it sure does look gorgeous!
Do you make the box or is that an off the shelf enclosure?

Thanks!

I will probaly make the box myself because I havn't found any good boxes on the market that are in the right sizes. It's so hard to find decent slope shaped boxes (all enclosures are 19" for some strange reason?) but if I find one I will for shure add the wodden sides!

Originally Posted by Rep

Are you using resistors. Ladder, and Shunt type stepped attenuators ,
fully assembled, as kits, and do it your self ... ect ?

here are some good resistor kits http://www.goldpt.com/prices.html

I am using a series stepped attenuator simular to those on Goldpoint but I have calculated my own resistors so I get the steps that I want.

Originally Posted by ulysses

I think the volume knob is the most difficult part of a monitor controller to implement correctly, and it's also the least necessary. Experienced engineers will talk about how much easier things got for them when they started using a calibrated monitor volume level (typically 0dbu=85dBSPL). If your monitors are always the same volume, then you will grow accustomed to knowing how loud things should sound in your mix. From there, it proves useful to have a "crank it up" setting so you can (briefly) hear the mix at full volume, as well as a "threshold of hearing" setting where you can hear what the last elements to disappear are. That setting is useful when the phone rings too, of course. So if I were building a monitor controller (which I will probably do at some point), I will probably omit the knob entirely and instead just have a few switches for a handful of useful positions. I'm curious to hear what other think of this idea. At the very least, it's a good way to break yourself from the common nervous habit of constantly making tiny adjustments to the volume control, which I have been known to do.

Yes I have thougth of this! I wouldn't go so far as ditching the volume pot totally but It will be clearly marked in dB so I easy can get the same volume agan and again (right now my monitors are connected direct out from a motu 828mkII so I cant'n switch monitors but I've noticed that It's very convienient to adjust the volume when the motu on the display tells you the attenuation in dB).

If you watch carefully on the picture you can se a DIM switch where you actually can do what you suggested. You can step down the level by -18dB or -36dB. These values are chosed in relation to the values on the pot. So if you are at the near bottom end of the scale you just flip to -18dB and you can go back, adjusting the volume (for more accuracy) on the top of the scale again or you could just use it as a dim switch to monitor at whisper level. You can also adjust the volume to monitor on -18dB and the flip the switch to 0dB (that would be fun).

I'll maby consider changing the values on that switch (everything isn't written in stone) so I can have a "cranc it up" setting that is working.

Thanks for the inputs everyone, they are most wellcome!

/Cojo