Behringer ADA8000 ADAT section removal

[znanjeiimanje]

I own an ADA8000. Nothing special, but it serves it's purpose. Now I would like to remove the ADAT part. I would like to have the signal direct from the preamp to the XLR connector in the back.

Has anyone done this before? i think it is possible but I am not 100% sure.

Here is also the schematic, so if anyone has any ideas....

http://www.gyraf.dk/schematics/Behringer_ada8000_analouge.PDF

my only doubt is that it will not work in the end.

 

[bitman]

Save yourself the trouble and optically jump the adat out to the adat in.
The behringer docs say this makes it an analog preamp.

 

[znanjeiimanje]

Save yourself the trouble and optically jump the adat out to the adat in.
The behringer docs say this makes it an analog preamp.

does it really work? I couldn't find that written anywhere but I think it would be the easiest solution

 

[PRR]

> optically jump the adat out to the adat in.

That adds a A/D and a D/A conversion. Won't that corrupt the lush sound of those costly TL074 chips?

Snip, snip, snip, jump.

 

[Stagefright13]

Unless you have a serious chain the ADA will sound just fine. Bruce Springsteen made an album with 57's and a cassette deck. Not saying it was good tho cause I never heard it.

But should be able to make good recordings with that thing.

Merry Christmas,
John

 

[bitman]

> optically jump the adat out to the adat in.

That adds a A/D and a D/A conversion. Won't that corrupt the lush sound of those costly TL074 chips?

Snip, snip, snip, jump.

;D

And, yes it really works.

It's interesting to see a thread where someone really wants to keep that allegedly wretched preamp section with all the how to jump the preamp threads.

 

[Stagefright13]

I don't think I ever needed to jump the lightpipes. But sounded fine the way it was. And would make a great record with the right mics.

But realistically anything will sound good if you have a great song. The most important thing.

John

 

[gemini86]

I don't think I ever needed to jump the lightpipes. But sounded fine the way it was. And would make a great record with the right mics.

But realistically anything will sound good if you have a great song. The most important thing.

John

I think we're starting to wander into brewery territory now.

All opinions aside, jumping adat out to in would be the easiest way. After that, PRRs method would work great.

 

[Stagefright13]

And yes you can jump the adats and make it into a preamp. I think it even said that in the manual.

John

 

[Iamkimosabi]

Hello, does anyone know how to do this with the newer version of the ADA8000, mine has the CIRRUS LOGIC chips instead of the WAVEFRONTs. Also, I only see 074 on the output section, and 339 on the input section.

A friend of mine wants to convert this to a 8 channel preamp, without the converters. He also doesn't want to any conversion done in the chain, just straight analog mic in, to analog xlr out.

 

[Khron]

339's are definitely NOT doing much on the input, apart from (most likely) driving the level indicator LEDs.

But if you posted some internal photos of the thing, there's at least a chance we could offer some educated guesses.