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looking for advice on gear upgrade for work -

  • 26-06-2008 8:52pm
    #1
    ro.tom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hello,

    I have a few questions that you fellas might be able to advise me on

    for my work we have people listening to music over headphones. Currently we have 6 people listening at any one time. The music sources are currently CD players.

    The CDs need to be changed every 30 minutes... very soon we are going to double the amount of people listening at any one time (12 people --> 12 CD changes every 30 minutes)

    For various reasons I want to ditch the CD players and have all the music running off a computer, with playlists set up, rather than changing the CDs.

    I have tried using an Ipod but it didnt work, the sound quality wasnt good enough...

    So I am thinking of a pro tools type set up on a mac, rack mounted soundcard(s) that will give me the 12 outputs. it is imperative that I retain reproduce the full frequency spectrum. So was thinking of using WAV files.

    so my question is:

    can I load 12 tracks in pro tools with WAV files (ripped from CD) and assign each to a different output ?

    Are WAV files the best to be using ?

    Any sound card / computer/ software reccomendations (need best possible sound)

    Any problems you fellas see with the above?

    hope its all clear (as mud)... ;-)

    ta

    R


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  • #2
    RealEstateKing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭RealEstateKing


    I have tried using an Ipod but it didnt work, the sound quality wasnt good enough...

    Are you sure you had it hooked up correctly? I cant imagine an iPod being a problem sound quality wise?


  • #3
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    ro.tom wrote: »
    Hello,

    I have a few questions that you fellas might be able to advise me on

    for my work we have people listening to music over headphones. Currently we have 6 people listening at any one time. The music sources are currently CD players.

    The CDs need to be changed every 30 minutes... very soon we are going to double the amount of people listening at any one time (12 people --> 12 CD changes every 30 minutes)

    For various reasons I want to ditch the CD players and have all the music running off a computer, with playlists set up, rather than changing the CDs.


    R

    Which begs the question what the hell are you doing?
    You can put PCM files on an ipod. That means you don't have to convert to mp3. Should be good enough quality.


  • #4
    ro.tom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭ro.tom


    RealEstateKing wrote: »
    Are you sure you had it hooked up correctly? I cant imagine an iPod being a problem sound quality wise?

    I tried a few different set ups with the Ipod (base station, direct from the headphone out on the pod). The music goes from source to a digital audio processor, and I found that I had to increase the volume on the pod, processor and headphone amp... thus some distortion started to show up.

    studiorat wrote: »
    You can put PCM files on an ipod. That means you don't have to convert to mp3. Should be good enough quality.

    I was using apple's "lossless" ... when I get a chance I'll have a look into PCM... but i still not sure about the pod... I think computer will work better and be more manageable than 12 Ipods (!).

    So protools eh, will it do what i want?
    studiorat wrote: »
    Which begs the question what the hell are you doing?

    Ha... fair enough ! ... pm for details

    R


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