looking into building a 16 channel box with these using EA's 10468's (in reverse for line in) and 1166's (on the outputs). Looks like the ez1290 has spec'd 500mA/channel as an overbuilt PSU. Any ideas what these LN72's draw per channel?
Some thoughts on the input gain control:
- Remoted to a front panel with wire's? Will this likely cause problems/oscillation?
- Use of a POT instead of greyhill for input gain control?
Some thoughts on mounting in an RU box:
- cards side by side. 8x channels wide, 2x channels high in the chassis.
- 100mm faders on the front panel. 16x wide. That provided about 1" for each fader which looks to still have a little room. Tight but I believe I can probably fit 16 channels into a standard RU box.
- Mute button. Have to check out the board to see where this can go. ie; cuts input signal or post fader signal.
- Polarity switch. Should this switch secondary or primary of IP trafo / OP trafo?
- Output trim in addition to fader.
- I'm seeing 6RU may be possible for 16 channel-strips.
- Channelstrip controls = POLARITY, I/P-GAIN, MUTE/CUT, AUX-OUT-ATTEN, FADER
Other thoughts:
- Additional untrimmed output.
- Balanced trafo out
- Unbalanced out. (looks like this may be -2.5db)
- One output trimmed, another just post fader. Maybe a pre/post switch for the trimmed output so it can be used like a send and multed/bussed as needed from the patchbay.
- main trafo balanced out to feed a 16x2 LCR passive summing mixer with 20k destination impedance. Maybe two of these with destinations in parallel for a four-main-bus system @ 10k dest-impedance. Makeup gain provided by patchable preamp.
- Maybe and I/P-A/B select would be nice for A/B'ing between "processed" and "bypass" without using an insert. ie; DAW -> EQ/DYN->I/P-A,||'d, DAW->I/P-B.
Thoughts / Comments?
Best,
jonathan