Podcasting System featuring the Allen & Heath XB10 Mixer ...

[Dan Ortego]

First up, welcome to the IAIB forum obanta!

Yes, I noticed the discount up on the Sweetwater website a few days' ago. I've had this recorder in my wish list for a long time and now its a lot more tempting. In fact, if you call and request a personal quote, you may well save an additional few bucks in addition to the promotional discount.

Sure, it's likely overkill but if you don't plan to do offsite recording and you're fairly certain you'll stick with the whole webcasting gig, then it most certainly would make for a super clean set-up.

[ptfigg]

Sure, it's likely overkill but if you don't plan to do offsite recording and you're fairly certain you'll stick with the whole webcasting gig, then it most certainly would make for a super clean set-up. For me personally, I already a rack-mount gear fanatic so it's definitely back on the front burner for me.

I agree. I also think it depends on what you will be recording. In a music recording environment that sort of doubles as a webcast/podcast studio - the extra $250 is a no-brainer. However if you are solely recording spoken word podcasts, well then I'm not so sure it would make that much of a difference.

Definitely a nice piece. I doubt if you'll ever need sample rate support higher than 48kHz for podcasts. OTOH the higher bit depth/res. support (24bit) might come in handy.

-paul.

[obanta]

Thanks for the feedback Dan and Paul. I went ahead and ordered it, so I look forward to trying it out next week.

Paul - I agree with everyone else about being really impressed with your diagrams. Do you use Visio with product images or do you use something else?

[ptfigg]

Thanks for the feedback Dan and Paul. I went ahead and ordered it, so I look forward to trying it out next week.

Paul - I agree with everyone else about being really impressed with your diagrams. Do you use Visio with product images or do you use something else?

Cool. Please let us know how it works out.

As far as my diagrams - ...

The style and implementation started back in the early days when clients would call for help with gear selection. The problem was once they had everything on hand - they had no idea how to make it all work. And so I decided to provide diagrams for reference. In fact it made things so much easier when we eventually got on the phone to discuss things and bring everything together.

Also keep in mind I'm no artist or designer! Besides the audio/video stuff I can write some Cocoa code. That's about it.

Bottom line is I'm solely on Macs. I use Photoshop CC and Apple's Keynote to build the diagrams. The snapshots of the gear are handled in Photoshop and the actual drawings are done in Keynote.

Here's something that I did way back on 2006, also with Photoshop and Keynote. Everything was from scratch. This was when Skype wasn't that great and most people were looking to pull in Telco audio for recording. At that time everyone was buying Telos One's. In fact I had two of them.

-paul.

[Dan Ortego]

Congrats obanta on pulling the trigger and making some of us jealous. If I hadn’t already purchased a new mixer last week I may well have ordered one for myself. Looking forward to reading your review after you’ve had time to play with it.

Sidebar: Say Paul, that's another fine illustration you have there. I would love to have you make one of my set-up once I get closer to being in finalized.