Master Fader 4.5 Released!

[JohnMHoyt]

Did the first real show with the MF 4.5 and our DL32R. It was kind of important, as it was a fundraiser and Delvin Choice (from The Voice) and another local celebrity was appearing with us, so the last thing we wanted was a glitch.

Initially, I considered not upgrading, or using an another console, but after hours of testing with saved shows and tracks, and then with live inputs, I was pretty confident it would work out for us.

Lo and behold.... everything was wonderful.  I'm tellin' ya, the reverbs are beautiful.   That X* has nothing on this now, glad I ditched it. Blows away my Presonus and A&H built-in reverbs!

But the star of the show... the new RTA features.    OMG.  THANK YOU for this....

It's like a brand new mixer for me.

Should Mackie ever open it up for other platforms, it will be quite possibly my favorite mixer of all, for a long time to come too.

[nottooloud]

Yah, with the channel RTA I'm finally considering my DL1608 to be feature complete.

I'd still love to see individual pre/post pre send per channel, but I'm not expecting it.

[RoadRanger]

I'd still love to see individual pre/post pre send per channel, but I'm not expecting it.

I need either that or a second reverb (so I can run one pre and one post).

[nottooloud]

My use is playback for track acts, needs to be post in the monitors. I can get around it by hard patching a bus back to a channel. Be nice to have it built in, though.

[RoadRanger]

My use is playback for track acts, needs to be post in the monitors. I can get around it by hard patching a bus back to a channel. Be nice to have it built in, though.

So, you need to adjust the volume of a track in both the main mix and monitor mixes simultaneously? Why? Could you do it via a subgroup or DCA? i don't use subgroups or DCA's so don't know what limitations they have...

[WK154]

RR if you're not using DCA's or subgroups you're missing out on a lot configuration features and simplifying mixing. 

[RoadRanger]

RR if you're not using DCA's or subgroups you're missing out on a lot configuration features and simplifying mixing. 

Never needed them on a MixWiz - kinda silly on a 16 channel mixer IMO, YMMV .

[shufflebeat]

RR if you're not using DCA's or subgroups you're missing out on a lot configuration features and simplifying mixing. 

Never needed them on a MixWiz - kinda silly on a 16 channel mixer IMO, YMMV .

Dunno, it's pretty handy when you don't have access to every fader all the time and you do have time to set up in advance.

[nottooloud]

My use is playback for track acts, needs to be post in the monitors. I can get around it by hard patching a bus back to a channel. Be nice to have it built in, though.

So, you need to adjust the volume of a track in both the main mix and monitor mixes simultaneously?

People will walk up to me at a showcase and say "Hi, our dance company is up next, our track is here on this phone. Go when we get to places. Fade it out when we exit the stage." Mains and mons have to fade together.

[Ampli]

For this u can assign the aux main fader to a vca, then u can acces this fader on the main page

[WK154]

RR if you're not using DCA's or subgroups you're missing out on a lot configuration features and simplifying mixing. 

Never needed them on a MixWiz - kinda silly on a 16 channel mixer IMO, YMMV .

It's a lot easier on physical faders (Mixwiz) to control multiples than on a piece of glass coaxing glow and grow. 

[RoadRanger]

It's a lot easier on physical faders (Mixwiz) to control multiples than on a piece of glass coaxing glow and grow. 

Sho'nuff...

[Rdmitch]

If you have the aux's for their monitor set at post fade, won't the aux volume drop right along with the main channel fader being faded out ? Then the main and monitor drop together.

[jr_jrafael]

Boa noite

O ideal é poder selecionar se o canal é pré ou pós fader...

Mas como só podemos selecionar o aux inteiro. A idéia do VCA é perfeita...

Você coloca no VCA o canal que esta o mp3 do aux1 ate o aux6 e tambem do LR.... ao diminuir o volume do VCA os canais todos vao diminuir simultaneamente. ..

Antes de tudo faça um teste meamo que offline.

Valew..

[pytchley]

Or just do the fade-out on the phone's volume control...