Red light indication

[bitman]

I'm halfway there and maybe can offer some insight.
I use Cakewalk SONAR which supports a audio metronome.
I don't use the metronome but use a hardware one that I can print with
the track. So, I made a long tone in place of the metronome click and it gives a near constant tone. I use that tone to drive a ducker key-in to gate on and off the talkback mic when in record mode. I had audible feed-thru with my ducker key so I made the metronome files at 22khz. - Still feeds thru but I don't hear it. Since the key signal isn't perfectly constant I just lenghten the ducker release. - Works a charm.

One of these days, I going to drive a relay and a lamp with it. :idea:

 

[bitman]

And now that day is closer than I thought.

Over at the X-10 Forum someone turned me on to this unit:
http://www.smarthome.com/4060.html

To solve another application problem.

It seems you can also drive the input from AUDIO! (My "record" signal).
This will allow me to light up any x-10 enabled record lamp that is on it's addressing house code.

Now I can also tell my wife when it's cool to flush the toilet!
:grin:

 

[sonicmook56]

[quote author="rodabod"]And it doesn't have to be red![/quote]

I once had to wire a "red light" from our Neve88R in a hurry for a demanding client. With no red light or fixture around, I ended up using white christmas lights hung around the studio door.

The thing I like about the 88R's redlight switch is that it cut's the SLS's when it's on, somthing I have never seen before on a desk.

~B[/i]

 

[dabo]

If you're talking about Pro Tools, use the GPI facility provided on the Sync I/O. All of the scoring stages and foley rooms here have recording indicators outside the doors triggered by GPI.

 

[SSLtech]

[quote author="sonicmook56"]The thing I like about the 88R's redlight switch is that it cut's the SLS's when it's on, somthing I have never seen before on a desk.[/quote]
Pfff!

SSLs kill SLS's in record mode and in record-in-mix mode. Also the 'status lock' button locks out the slate, kills the SLSs and does about a dozen other really neat 'good housekeeping' practices. It can be jumper-programmed to kill things like MD talkback speaker also.

Keith

 

[sonicmook56]

[quote author="SSLtech"]
Pfff!

SSLs kill SLS's in record mode and in record-in-mix mode. Also the 'status lock' button locks out the slate, kills the SLSs and does about a dozen other really neat 'good housekeeping' practices. It can be jumper-programmed to kill things like MD talkback speaker also.

Keith[/quote]

I never really looked at our 9K's red light features. No need to as one engineer has been camped out in that room for 10+ years, mixing only

If you're talking about Pro Tools, use the GPI facility provided on the Sync I/O. All of the scoring stages and foley rooms here have recording indicators outside the doors triggered by GPI.

I'll need to look into GPI.

 

[Greg Norman]

It is easy if you still record with tape machines.
We have a red light system in our studio A that works fine. The "on" signal comes from two places, first, an eao pushbutton "red light" switch on the console's master section, and second, a tap off the lamp that lights the record button on our Studer. Both are dc signals, 9V on the console switch, and 26V from the Studer (with a resistor in series). They energize a 120v relay for the two red light "recording in progress" boxes outside the studio. We rarely use the console switch, but the red light is always on when recording, and off in any other mode operation (one exception being when we spot erase, then it blinks off and on).

 

[Nadege]

Hi

thanks for all those advices. I'm not in a big configuration and it's not music related.

I'm whitout a console (only a controller), and using a pyramix DAW.

Nothing more. I found someting very interessing here:



http://www.punchlight.com/?q=node/8


Maybe it's a good option for me.

 

[chriss]

Here is a real solution:

http://www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=23859&highlight=

It's from a Soundcraft TS-24.

best

Chris