Hello everyone,
I appreciate all the help here, I'm about to begin my passive summer design, basically stealing other designs (NYDave's, Forsell's, etc) and rolling it into my own.. I have some stupid "mental speedbump" questions that I wanted to run by everyone first.
The main reason I'm building this is to integrate all of my outboard into my mixes. I plan on making stems in protools (16 outputs with an 002 Rack and an apogee 8 ch a/d) and sending them thru the many compressors and effects i have. I plan on having a patch bay that has the 002 rack and apogee outputs normalled to the summer's inputs. I then plan on patching compressors and effects in between.
I'm worried that there will be too many input impedance variables for the summer to have to deal with... like, the federal compressor gets patched in or the effectron gets taken out and all of a sudden the summer's settings all need to be changed. Is this a concern?
I worry that turning the level and pan pots will alter impedance drastically and disturb the summer.
I mean, are people patching things inline before their passive summers?
Has anyone else built a 16 channel passive summer with level and pan?
Finally, is there any benefit to putting transformers on the summer's inputs other than adding a coloration?
thanks and sorry for my "mental speed bumps"
by the way, here's the face plate I designed: