Do you really need all this "Studio" equipment?

[paradigm_x]

Cheers, thats interesting.

I swear I over-research. Ive spent ages looking into this. The more time you spend googliing each item you end up with a list of potential problems. Obv a part of the internet; people post far more about problems than being happy.


Should be more like the wife and buy stuff on impulse

[nowaysj]

Don't know the stats on the fireface, but have you looked into the emu 1616m? True, two of it's inputs are locked to pre amps, but 4 r not. Plus phono input, adat, spdif, blah blah blah, quality da, patch mix, let's you route all over the place, 0 latency monitoring, on board dsp, and I think the dsp is latency free for the live monitoring if I'm not mistaken.

[the dub lemon]

Hehe, impulse buying ftw.

tbh the Motu is great and I think you'd be very happy with it butttttt...since you're lusting after a fireface I reckon you'll never be completely happy until you have bought one of them...that's if you're anything like me haha.

[paradigm_x]

PCI dude.

Mine are rammed full of UAD

Cheers anyway, didnt mention firewire or USB only...

[paradigm_x]

double post

[paradigm_x]

Hehe, impulse buying ftw.

tbh the Motu is great and I think you'd be very happy with it butttttt...since you're lusting after a fireface I reckon you'll never be completely happy until you have bought one of them...that's if you're anything like me haha.

That sounds about right tbh.

Been hearing nothing bad about them for a long time and seem to be perfect.

Im also a bit drunk now, maybe i should just order one !

What you using now out of interest?

[the dub lemon]

That sounds about right tbh.

Been hearing nothing bad about them for a long time and seem to be perfect.

Im also a bit drunk now, maybe i should just order one !

What you using now out of interest?

It's been a funny old journey from there tbh and I've certainly never upgraded as such.

I sold it to raise money to get my MPC2500, not long after that I then realised that I wanted to multi track record my mpc/synths so ended up buying an Echo AudioFire 12 which was a fantastic interface for the price but cost me more than I sold the Motu for so I probably would've been better of keeping that in the first place.

After a while I then decided I wanted a desk and bought a huge behringer effort (which to be fair actually served me pretty well) but more recently I realised that the desk was actually doing strange things to my sound (it actually starts rolling of at 300hz!) and also that it was far too big and over excessive and took up too much space so very recently I decided to replace the Echo/Behringer combo with a Mackie Onyx 1620i which suites my setup absolutely perfectly.

I'm very happy with the Onyx although I have no idea how good the converters really, however there's no way I can hear the difference between 90% of the different ad/da converters out there anyway and until I can I'll be happy. I have however always had an RME on my mind so I might end up with one one day but what I've got is far more than I need anyway.

[thierry_le_dj]

i use a stock pc sound card!
was using cheap head phone for about 1yr and no midi keyboard most the time
maybe that why my tunes are shit.
but i think you can buy some decent studio gear at a cheap price these days if u look around
well now i have monitors and midi keyboard all cost me about 300 bucks and does the job

[macc]

Oi PDx - go RME

Digicheck!!

[paradigm_x]

That sounds about right tbh.

Been hearing nothing bad about them for a long time and seem to be perfect.

Im also a bit drunk now, maybe i should just order one !

What you using now out of interest?

It's been a funny old journey from there tbh and I've certainly never upgraded as such.

I sold it to raise money to get my MPC2500, not long after that I then realised that I wanted to multi track record my mpc/synths so ended up buying an Echo AudioFire 12 which was a fantastic interface for the price but cost me more than I sold the Motu for so I probably would've been better of keeping that in the first place.

After a while I then decided I wanted a desk and bought a huge behringer effort (which to be fair actually served me pretty well) but more recently I realised that the desk was actually doing strange things to my sound (it actually starts rolling of at 300hz!) and also that it was far too big and over excessive and took up too much space so very recently I decided to replace the Echo/Behringer combo with a Mackie Onyx 1620i which suites my setup absolutely perfectly.

I'm very happy with the Onyx although I have no idea how good the converters really, however there's no way I can hear the difference between 90% of the different ad/da converters out there anyway and until I can I'll be happy. I have however always had an RME on my mind so I might end up with one one day but what I've got is far more than I need anyway.

cheers.

See thats another thing ive been looking at recently, forgot to mention, the mackie i series/yamaha n-seires mixers/interfaces. 8-12 inputs via firewire, analogue eq and option to route back stereo mix via firewire.

But lost interest in analogue mixers once got used to total recall (eiiiughhuieghhheeugh macc!) with DAWs.



Grrr decisions decisions.

Looks like ill end up RME. Im sure i wont regret it just will have to sack off going to pub a bit in the near future...

So now fireface (convenient but poss higher latency) or fireface UC (ultralow latencies but cause probs with USB sockets, which are all full ! )

Nightmare.

Cheers