Monitor engineer, the third edition of "Music Farm"
PM1D
“One fantastic feature of the PM1D is the possibility to select the Recalls – initially, I left everything in Recall Safe, so that I could balance the whole band for each song. Later, I left just EQ, compression, dynamics and gain - freeing everything else, in order that each song had its overall balance - I’d never been able to do that with other desks, and found it really useful.”
“I really appreciated the 31-band EQ and the possibility of having good reverbs from plug-ins such as REV-X. This has become ‘the’ console for me - the others don’t have the same features – for example, with other digital consoles, you’ve got to decide in advance precisely what you want to do and, in the event of having to add an extra channel, the whole system has to be set again, which is rather complicated.”
FOH engineer, the third edition of "Music Farm"
PM1D
“It’s a console I really love working on! I particularly like it as a type of desk, its sound and its flexibility. On Music Farm, we had about a hundred small speakers for speech reinforcement – powered by Yamaha amps and controlled via one of the DME64N, which we also used as the system’s crossover. Another advantage the PM1D offers is having 48 faders all on one layer. It also has lots of matrices and numerous other functions – it really offers many possibilities. For example, for Music Farm, I used no less than 34 or 35 auxes!”
Mixing engineer, the third edition of "Music Farm"
PM1D
“I’ve got a PM1D in my mobile studio and find it a desk that’s ideally suited to television applications. At Music Farm, we had very little rehearsal time with the singers, because they also took part in the reality show, so we had to program and create memories – indispensable, particularly in situations such as the last evening, when there were numerous guests in the studio as well as the contestants – we finished up mixing third-odd songs that evening!”
“Yamaha regularly provides upgrades for the PM1D, with additional facilities that are always very useful – for example, the new plug-ins include a very tasty multi-band compressor.”
“I used it (DME64N) for the first time and found it a very compact but extremely flexible product, with an apparently endless amount of compressors, expanders, etc., and it can be used like an outboard unit, connecting it digitally to the desk and ‘inserting’ everything required – in this case, multi-band compressors that are very transparent and ideally suited to television applications.”
Trend*Event's technical director, Public viewings of the FIFA World Cup 2006
M7CL
"We had been looking for quite a long time at mixing desks suitable for the World Cup, and had made a catalogue of requirements for that purpose. We did not only want a digital console with a sophisticated scene memory function - the technical support was also on top of our list. Just imagine: a final and the sound breaks down!
In Yamaha we have found a partner we could always rely on - and will happily do so in the future. Fortunately we never had to make use of their support - although all of the desks had to deal with the worst conditions you can imagine: cold, heat, rain, dust, 24 hours operation for four weeks… It was a big challenge for the new desks, which we will now use for all of our national and international productions without hesitation."
Head of music technology, Newcastle College
DM2000, 02R96
"We have a variety of Yamaha digital consoles including a DM2000 and O2R 96’s around the facility , all our recording studios feature Yamaha consoles. (...) These consoles work brilliantly in a curriculum setting primarily because of their logical layout, and students therefore find it easier to understand the routing systems and hence discover the most effective ways in grouping instruments and processing the sound. (...) The DM2000 is an excellent console with many great features, the sound quality to the mix is impressive as are it's routing and processing capabilities. I am delighted with all of our Yamaha consoles, both the staff and the students find them very user friendly. Additionally they offer great value for money and are extremely durable and reliable."
