MAYBE NOT SO CHEAP usb multi input audio interface options?

[behndy]

boop boop. is this what you're talking about? 'cause i only see them at $1500 or so?

looking at the M Audio M Track 8. four hundy, looks really similar to the Motu828 i had forever. i mean, no SPDIF. but. i never used it anyways.

HURM.

[Ev_O)))]

boop boop. is this what you're talking about? 'cause i only see them at $1500 or so?

looking at the M Audio M Track 8. four hundy, looks really similar to the Motu828 i had forever. i mean, no SPDIF. but. i never used it anyways.

HURM.

Shit that's wat they cost new here in AUS. I just assumed that second hand in the USA would be way cheaper, like everything else but maybe not.

The M-Audio could be cool. I would personally rather go the PRESONUS 1818 or maybe the Roland Octa-Capture which are in the same ballpark here in AUS, M-Audio stuff just always rubbed me wrong for some reason. Maybe just don't like the design or something but the freak me out a bit.

I think the Keith McMillan K-Mix could be mad too. Very Visual. Access to sends and returns and stuff off the front panel for FX integration.

[behndy]

the K-Mix is NICE. and i love his stuff. he's like..... 14 minutes from my house. GOOD STUFF. but i dunno if i'd want it all out like that? looking at getting a shallow butts rack of some type and putting the interface and a little rack or some such. HIDEY CABLES. HIDEY CABLES GOOD.

jia. i like that the M Track is decently cheap and i don't mind the layout. simple is fiiiiiiiiine. will look at the PreSonus and Roland. ZOOMS.

...... i really like that almost all the inputs are on the back. again. HIDEY. GOOD.

[waltdogg]

behndy, if you want an interface that's available through guitar center. i can hook it up for you.

as for the m-track eight, i got it coz i knew i will never expand (no spidf and no optical on the eight) but it had every feature i knew i would need in a session.

[rustywire]

I've wanted an Apogee Quartet since they were announced

[popvulture]

Apogee's stuff is fantastic. Cannot say enough good things about them.

[behndy]

yeah. Apogee looks OOMPH. but. i mean. i would love to stay around 4 hundy?

looked up the 1818 and the Octa CAPTCHA, but they have the inputs on the front. kinda kills it for me. i'm really thinking on the 8 Track. seems plenty for what i want, i like the physical layout lots.

[popvulture]

I would waaaaay consider something like the Ultralite MOTU boxes over the M stuff, but that's just me. I've had bad luck with several M Audio products over the years.

[rustywire]

Yeah man. FWIW... of all the worst places to cut corners and save money, pres/converters are either 1 or 1a.
Garbage in/garbage out is trill. You don't mess with the front end because of the cumulative nature of issues in the signal chain.

I would waaaaay consider something like the Ultralite MOTU boxes over the M stuff, but that's just me. I've had bad luck with several M Audio products over the years.

+1 x2.

[actual]

Also the Roland Capture stuff have digital preamps. DIGITAL

[rfurtkamp]

^that sound good.

[actual]

Blasphemy.

[rfurtkamp]

I'm seriously considering a Studio Capture as my next "item outside impulse buy" range, I really am.

[actual]

I'm seriously considering a Studio Capture as my next "item outside impulse buy" range, I really am.

At the place I do FOH, we've got a Yamaha TF1, with digital pres ofc. At low levels they sound fine, but the second they're pushed, they overdrive in a really unpleasant way. I don't have any experience with the Roland pres, but I doubt any digital pres will overdrive as nicely, or sound as good when pushed, as their analog counterparts.

[rfurtkamp]

That's the thing, I don't push them on an interface.

If I want to push, I'd do it with outbound gear stepped down to the unit's inputs.