Post by Rick Sarson on May 8, 2007 18:19:56 GMT 1
Please don't think I am doing an egg sucking course. But here are a few things I have found out about Yamaha digital desks that might help. My first experience was on a PM5D. It was a nightmare! It turned out that the desk had been used as a sub desk on its previous job, so nothing on the control surface worked and no sound would come out! The tip is that if you turn the desk off, press and hold the scene store button next to the screen and power up again the opportunity to reset to factory default comes up. I do this with every desk now as there is no way of telling what the previous user has been getting up to and it means that good things happen like socket one corresponding to input one and also with fader one. I can't remember how to access this function is on an M7CL, but on an LS9 it is press and hold the top left button by the screen until it has gone through the boot up sequence.
On a PM5D if you press and hold a mix select button and a channel select button for a few seconds it will ask if you want to create a "mix minus" for that channel. Say yes and all other channels (except the one were holding) are sent to that mix at zero.
On an LS9 if you trying to use a graphic inserted on a group for feedback supression, say on a lectern, if you select one of the lectern mic channels before you go to the graphic rack then the head amp knob still controls that channel after all the faders represent the sliders on the graphic.
If you are thinking of buying an M7CL then you might like to know that Yamaha do an expansion card (£200-ish) that gives you direct access to the matrix outputs. This makes the desk much more flexible on a big show as it is all too easy to use up 16 outputs. I would guess they would do the same for an LS9, especially the 16 as it only has a total of eight outs, which disappear very quickly on all but the smallest jobs.
Something that makes life much easier on both the M7 and the LS9 is if you name all the mixes in Studio Manager before you load up your show. Especially on the M7 as the names come upon the 'fader job' screen and it so much easier just to read the soft button rather than trying to remember what you did with mix 15 or whatever.
If you want to get into using the Yamaha DME network to work with these desks it is worth noting that all Yamaha digital desks come out of the factory with the same IP address. If you were using an M7 yesterday and an LS9 today you will have to change the address on the desk or your laptop will think it is still the M7.
Let me know if any of this has been helpful, because it took ages to type!
On a PM5D if you press and hold a mix select button and a channel select button for a few seconds it will ask if you want to create a "mix minus" for that channel. Say yes and all other channels (except the one were holding) are sent to that mix at zero.
On an LS9 if you trying to use a graphic inserted on a group for feedback supression, say on a lectern, if you select one of the lectern mic channels before you go to the graphic rack then the head amp knob still controls that channel after all the faders represent the sliders on the graphic.
If you are thinking of buying an M7CL then you might like to know that Yamaha do an expansion card (£200-ish) that gives you direct access to the matrix outputs. This makes the desk much more flexible on a big show as it is all too easy to use up 16 outputs. I would guess they would do the same for an LS9, especially the 16 as it only has a total of eight outs, which disappear very quickly on all but the smallest jobs.
Something that makes life much easier on both the M7 and the LS9 is if you name all the mixes in Studio Manager before you load up your show. Especially on the M7 as the names come upon the 'fader job' screen and it so much easier just to read the soft button rather than trying to remember what you did with mix 15 or whatever.
If you want to get into using the Yamaha DME network to work with these desks it is worth noting that all Yamaha digital desks come out of the factory with the same IP address. If you were using an M7 yesterday and an LS9 today you will have to change the address on the desk or your laptop will think it is still the M7.
Let me know if any of this has been helpful, because it took ages to type!
