Studio Connectivity - help please, nice diagram included

Zsn · 22nd January 2007, 11:24 PM

I am in great need of suggestions to help connect my studio equipment in way that will reduce latency as much as possible and (hopefully) allow for direct hardware monitoring.

I am considering an apogee mini-dac in the near future if it will solve any potential connectivity problems that I might have now.

Basically, I want to be able to hear what I am recording in real-time through the monitors/phones, and listen to mixes with minimal latency. I'm wondering if both of these things can be accomplished with/without the mini-dac.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks in advance.
-Jason

nadumr · 23rd January 2007, 12:07 AM

I am pretty sure you can do this without the mini-dac. The profire lightbridge has 2 onboard D/A for the headphone output on the front of it. I would think that from that output you can monitor in real-time anything that is passing in or out of the unit, but this is just my presumption.

tINY · 23rd January 2007, 12:13 AM

If you have a line out, all you need is a headphone amp (and maybe a mixer).

The latency with a Core2Duo over firewire is not an issue unil you have to sync a bunch of takes (and your software should handle this automatically).

-tINY

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Zsn Gear interested Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Port Washington, NY Posts: 7	Studio Connectivity - help please, nice diagram included I am in great need of suggestions to help connect my studio equipment in way that will reduce latency as much as possible and (hopefully) allow for direct hardware monitoring. I am considering an apogee mini-dac in the near future if it will solve any potential connectivity problems that I might have now. Basically, I want to be able to hear what I am recording in real-time through the monitors/phones, and listen to mixes with minimal latency. I'm wondering if both of these things can be accomplished with/without the mini-dac. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks in advance. -Jason Attached Thumbnails

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23rd January 2007, 12:07 AM	#2
nadumr Gear maniac Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Surf Avenue, NY Posts: 183	I am pretty sure you can do this without the mini-dac. The profire lightbridge has 2 onboard D/A for the headphone output on the front of it. I would think that from that output you can monitor in real-time anything that is passing in or out of the unit, but this is just my presumption.

23rd January 2007, 12:13 AM	#3
tINY Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 6,067	If you have a line out, all you need is a headphone amp (and maybe a mixer). The latency with a Core2Duo over firewire is not an issue unil you have to sync a bunch of takes (and your software should handle this automatically). -tINY