Minidsp

Lisa Lane-Collins

Lisa Lane-Collins

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Has anyone been game enough to use this in a professional context?

I invested in one for a pub installation at the suggestion of a practicing installation tech friend (who has not led me astray yet and claims the useless honour of being the person to Finally help me understand what the hell ohms are). Usually his recommendations are high quality kit (and out of my budget range). Doing some actually reading up on this minidsp device it would seem it is the exception to the rule though, and does not qualify for pro audio.

It can do a bunch of awesome, useful things relating to EQing and zoning and filtering.....the question is, can I trust it to run as it should unsupervised?
 
Re: Minidsp

Look at the specs carefully. Even though it's balanced it does not operate at full "pro" levels. Hint: take a look at the maximum signal output of your mixer and then look at the maximum input signal of the minidsp 2x4 balanced.
 
Re: Minidsp

drew gandy said:
Look at the specs carefully. Even though it's balanced it does not operate at full "pro" levels. Hint: take a look at the maximum signal output of your mixer and then look at the maximum input signal of the minidsp 2x4 balanced.
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True. The max output is ~+6 dBV, which is enough to drive an amplifier with 26dB of gain (the lowest common gain) to a level of 80V, which is ~800W into 8 ohms. So perhaps not as big a deal as it could be.
 
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It seems to be behaving itself. I was hearing from the pub that the sound was cutting in and out and the signal was distorting at low levels. No word for over a week now though, good. And my new suspect for the cutting in an out thing is a dud rca cable (yet to be checked). Hopefully is just an rca problem, easy fix.
 
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