Topic: Just got a Yamaha O1V on a trade... did I get a good deal? How is this thing?

[taper420]

My friend just ran into a bunch of really cheap audio gear and he kept enough for himself to make a decent taping rig and he gave away/sold the rest. I got the O1V for a mountain jam ticket, a bed to sleep in for the night (at the house we rented for that weekend), and a few 30 packs of miller high life. It used to be around $2000 new, so I think I got a pretty good deal. So anybody know anything about these things? Preamp quality? ADC quality? Is it 24 bit? I'm pretty sure it's 44.1. This thing looks like it will come in very useful for my pa system (1200 watt) when my band starts playing shows. Anything else I could do with this thing? I'm not sure how useful it is for recording in the studio.... no individual outputs, I got the two mains and four "omni" outputs, so that's six at most. That may come in handy at some point when I have allot of live tracks and I need a few more preamps to plug into my motu's. So anybody have any experience with these? Any tips for the n00b?

[JNT]

I've never used one myself but they have been highly recomended by a friends of mine who uses one.  I've read several positive reviews as well.  Sounds like you got a good deal.

Joe

[Church-Audio]

My friend just ran into a bunch of really cheap audio gear and he kept enough for himself to make a decent taping rig and he gave away/sold the rest. I got the O1V for a mountain jam ticket, a bed to sleep in for the night (at the house we rented for that weekend), and a few 30 packs of miller high life. It used to be around $2000 new, so I think I got a pretty good deal. So anybody know anything about these things? Preamp quality? ADC quality? Is it 24 bit? I'm pretty sure it's 44.1. This thing looks like it will come in very useful for my pa system (1200 watt) when my band starts playing shows. Anything else I could do with this thing? I'm not sure how useful it is for recording in the studio.... no individual outputs, I got the two mains and four "omni" outputs, so that's six at most. That may come in handy at some point when I have allot of live tracks and I need a few more preamps to plug into my motu's. So anybody have any experience with these? Any tips for the n00b?

They are a great little board. They have a three band eq on every channel and basic automation. Balanced inputs and balanced pair of outputs for recording. The self noise of the preamps is a little high but overall they are not bad.
Again remember this is a digital console so everything gets digitized before it gets converted back to analog. This can be a real bummer if you dont really want to do that.  I am not 100% sure like its big brother the O2R if it has digital outputs. If so its not all that bad.

[taper420]

Digital output confirmed (SPIDF coaxial, 44.1, not sure about 24 vs. 16) Which is good, cause the analog outs are way too hot for my microtrack (still can't believe I can't take a pro line-level on the MT). Thanks for the responce guys, +t's. Just what I was looking for.

Yes, it seems like a pain to have to go ADC >DAC, especially cause I haven't really gotten any feedback on the quality of them in this unit. But if I was mulitracking a live gig I'd go mics>motu>analog outs>O1V, therefor bybassing the ADC/DAC quality issue. So I'll have a good signal for recording and the o1v's analog>digital>analog signal should be just fine for the PA system. That will also give me a clean recording signal, pre any compression and EQ I put on with the O1V. And yeah, the digitization does seem like an extra possibly unwanted step, but there are allot of nice tools that it is allowing me to use, whereas comparable analog components would be way too expensive. The EQ is very comprehensive, and the compression/limiter is a nice touch too.

[Jamos]

The quality on these boards is pretty good.  I would have no hesitations about taking a patch out of one for a recording, even w/the A to D to A conversions.
I'm assuming you don't have the 01v96 type...?  I think Yamaha released a v2 of most of their digital consoles that made some revisions, including being 24/96 capable in this case.
My friend had one for a while. He'd mix 3 or 4 different groups off and on, so he would store a scene with all of the group's settings.  Next time he mixed that group, all he'd have to do is recall that scene to have a basic starting point for the show.  Very handy!

Enjoy, it should be perfect for mixing your band live.

[Church-Audio]

The quality on these boards is pretty good.  I would have no hesitations about taking a patch out of one for a recording, even w/the A to D to A conversions.
I'm assuming you don't have the 01v96 type...?  I think Yamaha released a v2 of most of their digital consoles that made some revisions, including being 24/96 capable in this case.
My friend had one for a while. He'd mix 3 or 4 different groups off and on, so he would store a scene with all of the group's settings.  Next time he mixed that group, all he'd have to do is recall that scene to have a basic starting point for the show.  Very handy!

Enjoy, it should be perfect for mixing your band live.

They never made a 96k version of that board. Only the O2R96K

EDIT: My apologies to JMOS! they do make a o1v96k...


Chris

[taper420]

with all due respect: http://www.zzounds.com/item--YAM01V96V2

did some research: internal calculations are 32 bit, ADC/DAC is 20 bit.

so that means it's spitting out a 20 bit spidf signal? that means record at 24 bit correct? 16 would truncate, and those extra 4 bits are lost to noise anyway, effectivly making it = 24bit machine

Manual states: spidf input and output is 24bit

[Church-Audio]

with all due respect: http://www.zzounds.com/item--YAM01V96V2

did some research: internal calculations are 32 bit, ADC/DAC is 20 bit.

so that means it's spitting out a 20 bit spidf signal? that means record at 24 bit correct? 16 would truncate, and those extra 4 bits are lost to noise anyway, effectivly making it = 24bit machine

HAHAHA I guess I was wrong.. I have never seen one or heard of one.. Amazing I guess they dont sell them in Canada eh.. So there you go I stand corrected. THEY DO INFACT MAKE ONE.

Thanks for the link..

[oleg]

the yamaha has slots for aditional cards , so you can pull out , digita or analog signals
pretty good consol , espessially the v-2 , most of these who us it run external pre and then mixing digital
you camn pull out 48 or 44.1 or double these figures on the v-2 vertion .
dont know how you will run it without ac  as it take about 8 amp for 12 v with invertor .
the board is very common in film buisnes

[taper420]

dont know how you will run it without ac  as it take about 8 amp for 12 v with invertor .
the board is very common in film buisnes

It's cool, don't ever plan on using it without ac power. I have other stuff for that. That's nice about the film buisness... I do videography so it may come in handy down the road.