Output from PT to analog desk?

[lumpo]

Is there any other solution (ie cards that might work) to get the 24bit Pro tools session mixed externally, other than having a stack of 888s? I have an adat Bridge (and so on) but the lightpipe won't help much with an analog desk's Iinputs. I guess I'm asking, is there a cheapy way of doing this for the customer who wants to mix the session externally?

TIA

[awave]

apogee DA 16
RME ADI-8 DD

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[PT2GO]

Frontier Design Tango is an option. It will convert eight channels lightpipe to eight channels analog.

[kenn.michael]

No, the Apogee DA16 is actually ideal. You have an ADAT bridge, and the DA16 converts lightpipe to Analog outputs. It's great, because you get 16 Apogee converters with a relatively low price, and your ADAT Bridge can stay useful.

[lumpo]

Sorry,
what I meant was - is there a converter that will take the PT output and convert is to analog for feeding to an analog consol e without fancy adat connections etc. The RME appears to be a format converter in the digital domain.
TIA

[taiazeez]

Lumpo there is no way you can mix eternally to a desk in PT without an interface of sorts, now if you already have an adat bridge you will need a lightpipe to analog out box like rme adi pro which according to loads of people here sounds way better than an 888 interface its only 8 i/o so you would need 2 of these if you want 16 i/o bear in mind rme also has 8 analog ins, I own an adat bridge and decided to get that against the digidesign 1622 interface which is 16 analog i/os purely because i could always change the front end a/d convertors if need be, i currently use an adat xt20.

Good luck