| OH... MY... GOD... (re: convertors) [message #63285] |
Tue, 17 January 2006 22:04  |
Neil
Messages: 1645
Registered: April 2006
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First off, I should state that I like the RME convertors in my
Multiface because of their transparency & shall we
say: "cleanliness", but I recently picked up an i/o card for my
ISA428, wherein I can either use the pre's in that or go direct
line-in from another source, then SPDIF or lightpipe out to the
RME & into the DAW from there. I just finished a mix where I
tracked everything through the ISA (just to kinda compare with
other stuff I've done using solely the RME's) & lightpiped into
the RME, and I'm sitting there grooving on it, and
thinking "Hey, this sounds pretty damn good!".
Then I pull up another song in a somewhat similar vein that I
had tracked completely through the Multiface - one that I had
thought was also sounding pretty good - and I was shocked.
Total, complete, utter crap compared to the ISA convertors!!!
Now, in listeneing to a different song that was tracked through
the RME's, yet wasn't quite as hard-rock-ish, stood up really
well when compared to the song tracked through the ISA
convertors, but for the bigger, richer, harder-edged stuff,
there was no comparison - it was like night and day (and now I'm
depressed because this, of course, means I have to retrack
everything on the new CD, using the ISA convertors LOL).
Just an FYI for anyone looking at a new front end; There are 8
in's on the ISA 428 (4 mic pre/line-in/instrument-in channels,
and 4 separate line-in's), and if you get the optional i/o card
you can send 8 channels out through the digital outputs at
44.1k, and 4 channels out at 88.2k or higher.
If I can get permission from the copyright holder to post a
clip so you can hear what I'm talking about, I'll do it.
Neil
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