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Re: What would it take to give a LS9-16 the ability to record and have more input/outi have my LS9-16 maxed out with all the goodies I could get. The MY16 card gives you the extra 16 ins and out via ADAT connections. To serve those i/o's I have 2 focusrite Octopre MKii Dynamic units that serve as a/d and d/a's. The system is set-up for 15 channels of direct outs (16 goes to smaart) via TRS connection on the focusrite. The cheaper version of this device would be the Behringer ADA8000. It does the exact same thing with a just a slightly lower quality level.Everything is being clocked externally with a big ben and 75ohm terminators on the returns so that the number of connections are lowered during set-up. Otherwise you would need to create a loop with all the gear. The external clock isn't necessary but if you are doing in-ear mixes than I think you'll notice a difference. I'm not sure that I would bother with getting a cheap word clock. I would just use the internal clock on the ls9 before I went with something like a Hosa Clock.I set-up mix 15-16 as a stereo mix for recording to the thumb drive. This is somewhat a reference mix so we can decide whether something was good enough to re-mix from the direct outs. It's somewhat a counter of the FOH mix in the sense that all faders are set to zero and if I need to go plus 4 or 5 on a vocal to get it to stand out, I'll pull that vocal down on the recording mix send to level it all out. The thumb drive mix is mp3 only, but post fader send so you can put compression on the outputs and it will reflect on the thumb drive mp3. You could send one channel to it if you wanted by making it a direct out.
Re: What would it take to give a LS9-16 the ability to record and have more input/out
i have my LS9-16 maxed out with all the goodies I could get. The MY16 card gives you the extra 16 ins and out via ADAT connections. To serve those i/o's I have 2 focusrite Octopre MKii Dynamic units that serve as a/d and d/a's. The system is set-up for 15 channels of direct outs (16 goes to smaart) via TRS connection on the focusrite. The cheaper version of this device would be the Behringer ADA8000. It does the exact same thing with a just a slightly lower quality level.
Everything is being clocked externally with a big ben and 75ohm terminators on the returns so that the number of connections are lowered during set-up. Otherwise you would need to create a loop with all the gear. The external clock isn't necessary but if you are doing in-ear mixes than I think you'll notice a difference. I'm not sure that I would bother with getting a cheap word clock. I would just use the internal clock on the ls9 before I went with something like a Hosa Clock.
I set-up mix 15-16 as a stereo mix for recording to the thumb drive. This is somewhat a reference mix so we can decide whether something was good enough to re-mix from the direct outs. It's somewhat a counter of the FOH mix in the sense that all faders are set to zero and if I need to go plus 4 or 5 on a vocal to get it to stand out, I'll pull that vocal down on the recording mix send to level it all out. The thumb drive mix is mp3 only, but post fader send so you can put compression on the outputs and it will reflect on the thumb drive mp3. You could send one channel to it if you wanted by making it a direct out.
