Dangerous D-Box: Overview
Producer/Mixer Fab Dupont talks about the Dangerous Music D-Box, and how it will benefit your studio setup
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Sound Pure's Take
"some of my favorite mixing breakthrough 'A-ha!' moments have come from being able to have complete control over my setup and just work without questioning HOW to make decisions or evaluate them. This is why I fawned over the D-Box when I had the opportunity to work with it for a little while at my own space.
Once set up, it immediately seemed to give more definition and openness to the sound coming out of my monitors. Compared to my needlessly complex monitor switching via patchbay and headphone amps, quickly switching with one button on the Dbox is a no-brainer. Then, of course, dropping to mono for when I'm doing reference work on my mixcubes is crucial as well.
One of my favorite things about the D-Box though was the included summing mixer. It's almost a sonic reward for finishing a mix. Once I was pretty much satisfied with my track, I bussed it all down to 8 outputs and into the Dbox's summing input for a final print. The result was a more cohesive and dynamic sound. Processed elements sounded more focused and clear while bass and midrange were given a bit of punch up to polish a nice 3-D feeling across the board.
The D/A converter made it a breeze to quickly toggle between summed and unsummed versions of the same mix to really solidify that it was, in fact, an improvement overall. having 8 channels running summing WITH the D/A for monitoring means that any studio with an 8 channel interface and digital connections can take advantage of the DBox
For the project studio, the D-Box is a valuable piece of gear to control your front end and feel confident in the accuracy of what you're hearing. "
-Marc Kuzio, Sound Pure Pro Audio Specialist
Watch & listen
Inserting Outboard Gear with Dangerous Analog Summing
In this video, Fab from www.puremix.net shows us how a Dangerous Music 2-Bus makes it easy to incorporate all your outboard gear without the fear of latency.
Dangerous D-Box: Monitoring
Producer/Mixer Fab Dupont talks about Monitoring with the Dangerous Music D-Box, and how it will benefit you in your studio.
Dangerous D-Box: Integration
Producer/Mixer Fab Dupont explains how you can integrate a Dangerous Music D-Box with your current audio interface, in this case a Digi003 (but just about any interface can be used).
D-Box and UA Apollo Setup - Dangerous Music
Fab from PureMix.net shows how to integrate a Dangerous Music D-Box with a Universal Audio Apollo. He covers everything from analog summing, to latency free monitoring.
Dangerous Music 2-Bus: How it Works and How to Use It
Also in this recording Dangerous Music 2-Bus Analog Summing Unit
Producer/Mixer Fab Dupont explains the Dangerous Music 2Bus, and the concept of analog summing.
From Dangerous Music
YOUR STUDIO’S CENTERPIECE
The D-BOX is a transparent, audiophile-grade monitor controller for tracking, mixing and mastering with eight channels of Dangerous Music’s award-winning analog summing at an unbelievable price point. Legendary designer Chris Muth has developed a world-class circuit for the D-BOX that provides crystal clear fidelity and flawless performance across its flexible feature set. The D-BOX handles your input source monitoring, speaker switching, cue, talkback, headphone and mixing needs in just one rack space. The D-BOX hosts reference-grade D/A conversion, switchable analog inputs between balanced +4dBu and unbalanced -10dBV, two powerful 20w/channel headphone amps, a built-in talkback mic, and a stunning analog summing mixer that will give your mixes the headroom and sonic dimensionality needed to achieve truly professional results
YOU MUST HEAR EVERYTHING
True craftsmanship is in the details. If you can’t hear the nuances of what you’re working on, then you simply can’t make informed decisions. Everything from placing a mic, to turning a knob on an EQ, to coaching a singer though a delicate passage depends on being able to hear exactly what’s going on. With the advent of “prosumer” gear, the monitoring path is typically sacrificed to meet a price-point, allowing what should be true craftsmanship to become guesswork. You simply can’t mix what you can’t hear. To solve this problem, the D-BOX incorporates audiophile-grade components in an unconditionally transparent design that reveals every last detail, allowing you to get things right the first time. Additionally, the D-BOX routes all your digital signals through the same onboard reference-grade digital-to-analog converter, giving you the same unified monitoring experience used by the world’s best mastering engineers.
HEAR EVEN MORE WITH ANALOG SUMMING
Our award-winning active analog summing provides the increased headroom and vast sonic space needed to achieve truly stunning mixes. With the D-BOX’s analog summing mixer, your digital subgroups (or “stems”) are sent out of your session via your interface’s D/A converters to the D-BOX’s eight analog summing inputs, providing incredible headroom, dimensionality and clarity. No more collapsing mixes from shoving everything into a single digital fader, with the D-BOX panning becomes precise, reverbs and delays more engaging and clear, bass punchier, mids more detailed and the top end more open. Require even more channels of analog summing? Simply expand with the Dangerous Music 2-BUS LT or the innovative 2-BUS+.
- Frequency Response
- 1Hz-100kHz within 0.1dB
- THD+N
- < 0.003%
- IMD
- < 0.004%
- Crosstalk
- < -97dB
- Noise
- < -89dBu total energy in audio band
- Maximum Input
- +27dBu
MONITOR SECTION
- Frequency Response
- 1Hz-100kHz within 0.1dB
- THD+N
- < 0.003%
- IMD
- < 0.0035%
- Crosstalk
- < -100dB
- Noise
- < -91dBu total energy in audio band
- Maximum Input
- +26dBu
D/A CONVERTER
Locks to standard AES or SPDIF signals 32kHz-100kHz
- Crosstalk
- < -101dB
- Noise
- < -92dBu
- THD+N
- 0.005%
- Nominal operating level
- +4 dBu
- Input impedance
- 25kohms balanced
- Output impedance
- 50 ohms balanced
- Power consumption
- 25 Watt
- Warranty
- Free 2 year extended warranty with online registration.
- Standard warranty
- 90 days parts and labor, subject to inspection. Does not include damage incurred through abusive operation or modifications/attempted repair by unauthorized technicians.
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