"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Iain Churches wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
Iain, did you actually even read the question?

Yes. Apologies. I am currently doing a project
on a Studer desk that has phantom on only 12
of the sixteen inputs. Modifying, or making additions
to, the Studer mic modules was not an option, so
we bought 2 of the Thomann phantom supplies.
I thought you had a similar situation.

Interesting. Don't think I've ever seen a mixer with only some of the
mic amps having phantom. It's not as if it would save much cost in
production.

No. It would not have saved anything.
But it was ordered like that, as a custom console, by NDR.
It has some very interestiing and useful features
such as group correlation which are not often seen.

What do you mean by 'group correlation' in practice?


One can assign two or more channels, panned as required
across up to twelve sub-groups. Each subgroup has a
correlation meter similar to this one from an SSL
console.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...ationMeter.jpg


Very useful for strings, drum overheads, and of course
anything double-tracked.

This is a much more compact solution than having
twelve vector-scopes, or patching a goniometer across
from the main outputs.

I forgot to mention that on this console, mic channels
13-16 do not even have a "Phantom On" indicator as
the other twelve have, so it was obviously specified
like this. Perhaps channels 13-16 were used
for line level feeds from another control room.

Iain