Good day,
I am dyving into ATMOS (7.1.4 in my case) and are struggling through the whole process. As a live time sound engineering hobby, now being at my pension age, I am building my home studio to do audio mixing, having around 4000 studio recording multitracks as material to work with.
After a lot of reading and watching Youtube on ATMOS and immersive mixing for days, I now am at the stage where:
- As a last one, I have Personus Central Station monitoring controller, very nice and not costing a fortune. It enables me to do stereo monitoring.
All that's OK, but I hope you can see it coming: HOW TO MONITOR 7.1.4 ...?? I can do that using a dedicated channel in Ableton live and ProTools, using a mouse. Don't like that, it works, but using that one "volume control" channel becomes a bit of an issue. When I have a lot of tracks to mix (between 24 and 48 is kind of normal for me) go figure where that volume track is, go there and use the mouse to turn the volume to desired level. You get the picture..
Of course there are ATMOS speaker monitoring solutions, where the cheapest, and very good one, is Audient Oria that does it all, it still sets me back some 3000 euro again and I am running out of money here. The other solutions are from 4000 to 15000 euro, just to manage the sound level of an ATMOS mix, kind of stupidly expensive volume knob..... Personally I think that is ridiculous to keep it polite.
Can some one help me with a hardware volume controller that can do both Stereo (which is a subset of the ATMOS speaker setup (just Left & Right) and ATMOS (from 5.1.2 to 7.1.4 in my case). Of course would be nice to have a mute and dim function.
To be a bit more specific:
I am OK with electronics a bit, so if needed soldering components on an experimental print circuit board is no issue.
I am OK to pay you if you can provide me with a working solution, that is simple, works at all times, requires no maintenance or configuring and uses easy to get components. In other words rock solid an does what it should. So I can just grab the volume knob and turn to my liking in seconds with the mute / dim function to help me out when for what ever reason those 12 speakers start blasting at full level in my nice bedroom sized studio without getting hearing damage, AND recovering from a heart attack......... 🤐
Preferred NO added noice by this device, not audible at least.
ANY one wanted to give it a go / already knows such a DIY ATMOS volume controller?
Please help me out, very much appreciated.
kind regards,
Frans.
I am dyving into ATMOS (7.1.4 in my case) and are struggling through the whole process. As a live time sound engineering hobby, now being at my pension age, I am building my home studio to do audio mixing, having around 4000 studio recording multitracks as material to work with.
After a lot of reading and watching Youtube on ATMOS and immersive mixing for days, I now am at the stage where:
- I run everything on a Mac mini Studio M2 Pro which has sufficient horsepower to do it all
- I use both Ableton Live and ProTools (Presonus Studio One as the easy alternative) to turn stereo mixes into ATMOS
- I have a Motu 16A as my speaker interface (line level signals to active speakers with input via USB from my Mac mini).
- I have 7 Genelec 1030A (bought second hand) for "the bed"
- I have 1 Genelec 7050CPM as the "LFE"
- 4 Top speaker as a DIY, they run passive with 1 Faital Pro 4" full range driver, light weight to mount to the ceiling, just 1 cable per cabinet.
- I have SSL UF1, UF8 and UC1 to work with Ableton Live and ProTools almost without needing a mouse, which is VERY nice. A mouse is a bit of a stupid device to turn knobs (volume, EQ, panning, etc.), so these are hardware controllers for software (plugins).
- I can run ATMOS "in the box" as they call it, so all on the Mac mini Studio with Ableton Live or ProTools / Studio One (to be decided)
- I am the still happy owner of a Mackie 8-bus 48 channel analog mixing desk. It gets its input from D/A convertors from the Mac mini. It is setup to do ATMOS (12 separate output signals back to the ATMOS renderer) based on the ideas and setup of an audio engineer called Bob Clearmountain, very famous guy who is in immersive / ATMOS mixing for years and has produced loads of records, a lot of them in ATMOS. The only draw back on the analog console is that "flying around objects" is a bit of a night mare. Ohhh well, music mixing for ATMOS does not really call for massive object fouling around. When you hear a mix where a synthesizer is swirling like a bee around your head for minutes kind of makes you stop listening. So no game breaker here.
- As a last one, I have Personus Central Station monitoring controller, very nice and not costing a fortune. It enables me to do stereo monitoring.
All that's OK, but I hope you can see it coming: HOW TO MONITOR 7.1.4 ...?? I can do that using a dedicated channel in Ableton live and ProTools, using a mouse. Don't like that, it works, but using that one "volume control" channel becomes a bit of an issue. When I have a lot of tracks to mix (between 24 and 48 is kind of normal for me) go figure where that volume track is, go there and use the mouse to turn the volume to desired level. You get the picture..
Of course there are ATMOS speaker monitoring solutions, where the cheapest, and very good one, is Audient Oria that does it all, it still sets me back some 3000 euro again and I am running out of money here. The other solutions are from 4000 to 15000 euro, just to manage the sound level of an ATMOS mix, kind of stupidly expensive volume knob..... Personally I think that is ridiculous to keep it polite.
Can some one help me with a hardware volume controller that can do both Stereo (which is a subset of the ATMOS speaker setup (just Left & Right) and ATMOS (from 5.1.2 to 7.1.4 in my case). Of course would be nice to have a mute and dim function.
To be a bit more specific:
- Inputs for the volume controller are the outputs of the Motu 16A that has line level output for the Genelec 1030A active speakers and the Genelec 7050CPM LFE, also active.
- Outputs are 12 line level signals for each of the 7.1.4 channels.
- Just ONE rotary knob
- A mute button (on / off)
- A dim button, fixed to a set level of gain reduction.
I am OK with electronics a bit, so if needed soldering components on an experimental print circuit board is no issue.
I am OK to pay you if you can provide me with a working solution, that is simple, works at all times, requires no maintenance or configuring and uses easy to get components. In other words rock solid an does what it should. So I can just grab the volume knob and turn to my liking in seconds with the mute / dim function to help me out when for what ever reason those 12 speakers start blasting at full level in my nice bedroom sized studio without getting hearing damage, AND recovering from a heart attack......... 🤐
Preferred NO added noice by this device, not audible at least.
ANY one wanted to give it a go / already knows such a DIY ATMOS volume controller?
Please help me out, very much appreciated.
kind regards,
Frans.
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Not sure if the following would be of any interest whatsoever.
https://medium.com/@amano_20293/building-monitor-controller-for-dolby-atmos-studio-8a20481835f9
https://medium.com/@amano_20293/building-monitor-controller-for-dolby-atmos-studio-8a20481835f9