Anyone ever worked on a Digi ProControl

[byoung]

So some of these have problems with the analog monitor board, ok I've heard tons of complaints, they have known about this for years and even offered a board to update them back in like 2002, but I'm curious if anybody has ever done this DIY? Or if you know anything about the new board that DIGI supplied for these things. Doesn't seem like it should be much more than a new pot or maybe opamp upgrades, but I have yet to take mine apart.

 

[amorris]

we had several and they were great as a controller. the monitoring, beside being wired backwards from any digisnake available, was not great. (i forget exactly how it is backwards, but you have to make a cable, not just plugging it in differently) the pot encoder thingy just sucked. at low volumes, it was left heavy and it would never get very low in volume. had a few apart and the monitor board is a surface mount chip and capacitor forest.

get one for digi-control, not sound quality. fixing/ changing it? id hate to reverse engineer something and anything they would sell you would be from/ of the same people. might be better, but if you need great sound, just come off the interface into something that sounds great. dont polish a ..., well you know.

 

[pucho812]

Andrew, IIRC it's wired back to front. so channels 1-8 snake was 8-1 console.

 

[walter]

A Control 24 came into the shop last week, and the boss told me it was a rush job that needed a power supply. I didn't know why he told me that, but I was the one to fix it, and then I replaced the PSU in the shop C24. Apparently there is a problem with the wiring harness that takes out the power supply. It was easy enough to replace the whole assembly, but I am curious as to what the problem is.

 

[pucho812]

[quote author="walter"]A Control 24 came into the shop last week, and the boss told me it was a rush job that needed a power supply. I didn't know why he told me that, but I was the one to fix it, and then I replaced the PSU in the shop C24. Apparently there is a problem with the wiring harness that takes out the power supply. It was easy enough to replace the whole assembly, but I am curious as to what the problem is.[/quote]
It's digidesign do you need to go any further into it :razz:

 

[mata_haze]

on the same subject:
does any of you know where (IF!) to get a service manual for the Procontrol?
I sent the studio one for maintenance to a shop not long ago to get the faders calibrated..and it returned in a worse status...
I'd like to do it on my own but of course I don't know the procedure...
Is anyone out there that could help??
many thanks,
Mattia Sartori.

 

[amorris]

i would be interested in the control24 wiring issue. we have failures everytime we have a power outage. we seem to lose at least one power supply.(we have 20+ control24s)

 

[byoung]

As per my original post, I had a procontrol that I was lucky enough to have the studio selling let me try it out for a couple of days, I ended up giving it back because I think I might prefer the C24.

And on that note I don't understand why digi has had such a hard time with the PSU on the C24, I mean for the price you pay for it, you would think it would at least be reliable. Are the latest Revs still having PSU problems?

amorris wrote: we have 20+ control24s

wow, I take it you work at a school for audio engineering or one heck of a studio.

 

[Mundox]

ProControl's monitor section sucks. You can't monitor at low levels. (ours goes right heavy)
And the headphone amp is worse than a buttringer. :shock: