Dangerous Music MONITOR ST Remote-Controlled Source and Speaker Switcher

The Dangerous MONITOR ST is the gold standard for studio reference. Input source selection, speaker switching, cue system, talkback functions, and headphone amplification are all neatly tucked into one rack space and controlled via the comprehensive, customizable remote. As with every Dangerous Music product, painstaking measures are taken to create complete functionality with ZERO audio compromise. Expansion to 5.1 and beyond is simple: just add the Monitor SR and/or the Additional Switching System. The MONITOR ST solves the conundrum of today's complex monitoring world, without masking reality.
The Dangerous Music Legacy: "Audio
Integrity: non-negotiable. " This is the credo upon which Dangerous Music is founded. Conceived and designed by end users-not by engineers in lab coats--the results are products that resurrect dynamic range, punch, intelligibility and emotion. These high-fidelity, uncompromised signal paths are achieved by harnessing over 20 years of Chris Muth's design wizardry; creator of infamous custom black boxes for world class facilities like Hit Factory, Masterdisk, Absolute Audio and Sterling Sound Mastering. Then the critical listening skills of golden-eared luminaries are applied, with the result being musical tools that fulfill the actual needs of today's flexible computer based studio. Is Your Audio A Hostage? Monitoring is the most crucial stage in the audio chain. An inferior system facilitates poor mix decisions by forcing you to compensate for its shortcomings. For example, if transients are choked by cheap components and weak designs, the high-end you added to the mix will spike like Mount Everest in the real world. When evaluating a new microphone, preamp or EQ, how can you judge their performance without honest monitoring? The MONITOR ST is the outcome of real world experience combined with mastering grade components.

Don't let a lesser monitor rig hold your audio hostage.
Talkback Mic• Feature: Not to be confused with how you behaved in high school, the talkback mic and level injects the microphone into the headphone cue system•
Benefit: Avoid jerry-rigging a separate means of communication to the artist (i. e. Carrier Pigeon, Smoke Signals, Semaphore…) to save a ton of time, which you can bill forPower
Indicator• Feature: Visual indication proving that the unit is powered up•
Benefit: Save an hour of your life by determining that the AC outlet is dead, not your gearHeadphone
Monitoring• Feature: 20 watts of pristine tympanic membrane - moving headphone amplification•
Benefit: Miles of headroom, to audition intelligibly and feel the music•
Tip: Drive a Redco Little Red Cuebox from the cue amp out on the rear panel OR from hereMain
To Cue• Feature: Sends the selected control room mains audio to the cue amp and phones outputs•
Benefit: If you need a master mix perfect for the cue mix, don't reinvent the wheel, just pipe it into the cans and open up your own can of something to celebrateAux Input To Cue -
To Main• Feature: Send the aux input to cue, CR speakers or both - this is a separate audio path from the main inputs•
Benefit: (1) Set up and monitor a separate cue mix for the talent; (2) Monitor the computer's headphone jack to audition sample libraries or audibly monitor software updatesInput 4
Level• Feature: Turn down the level on input 4 as necessary•
Benefit: Match a mastered CD's input level with the current project mix for an honest
A/BAux Input• Feature: Alternative input•
Benefit: Mult the vocal mic/EQ/comp signal being fed to the DAW into Aux Inputs for latency free cue mix vocals•
Tip: Feed the audio output of your Mac into the Aux input to audition sample libraries and hear computer alert beepsRemote
Mic Input• Feature: Use an external mic for the TB system instead of the built-in mic•
Benefit: If you want the rack unit in the machine room or an Iso-box, jack in a mic, run some cable and goAnalog Input and
Output• Feature: Inputs and outputs are accessed on DB25 connectors•
Benefit: (1)