Post by cwmcobra on Feb 3, 2024 10:08:35 GMT -5
First, a bit of background. Our 16-year-old grandson seems destined for a career in music. He has a small studio setup in his bedroom where he creates and listens to music. He creates using software on his computer, adding his own vocals. He's taking singing lessons and plays piano and guitar. At this age he thinks he wants a career in music production, possibly as an audio engineer.
His current audio playback system includes his computer and turntable as sources, in addition to his microphone inputs. These go to a TASCAM US-4x4HR audio interface. Stereo outputs then go to a pair of Yamaha powered studio monitors with a separate output to a powered subwoofer. It all sounds quite good but is lacking a system volume control. Volume is adjusted individually on each monitor and on the subwoofer. A painful process to watch changes are desired.
Ideally, he’d have a nice DAC/preamp that would improve audio quality and provide system volume control. But, being in a bedroom, space is limited. What I’d like to find is something like the old Emotiva Control Freak that could be inserted into the audio chain to control volume. Cable adapters would certainly be required and a splitter as well to route audio to both monitors and subwoofer.
Any idea if something like this exists? Even a used Control Freak would work, I believe.
Someday we’ll be able to do a better system, but for now, this is the challenge.
Chuck
His current audio playback system includes his computer and turntable as sources, in addition to his microphone inputs. These go to a TASCAM US-4x4HR audio interface. Stereo outputs then go to a pair of Yamaha powered studio monitors with a separate output to a powered subwoofer. It all sounds quite good but is lacking a system volume control. Volume is adjusted individually on each monitor and on the subwoofer. A painful process to watch changes are desired.
Ideally, he’d have a nice DAC/preamp that would improve audio quality and provide system volume control. But, being in a bedroom, space is limited. What I’d like to find is something like the old Emotiva Control Freak that could be inserted into the audio chain to control volume. Cable adapters would certainly be required and a splitter as well to route audio to both monitors and subwoofer.
Any idea if something like this exists? Even a used Control Freak would work, I believe.
Someday we’ll be able to do a better system, but for now, this is the challenge.
Chuck
As multiple Subs help with nulls and nodes tuning. Sorry just thinking out of the box.
