Recording gear (computer)

[rfurtkamp]

Nobody can give meaningful advice without knowing a few things:

How many tracks at once do you need to record?

What specific features do you need (phantom, etc)?

What's the budget?

[sylnau]

Want to record guitar... using my Yamaha DG-Stomp and some pedals. (no mic, appartment setup).
Add some beat, etc...
I'm already using Propellerhead Reason.

PC will probably be a Lenovo E31 with a Xeon E3-1230V2 / 3.3 GHZ proc. 8 GB.

I don't want to have to deal with letency.

[rfurtkamp]

So let's assume stereo (you get exotic and want to record stereo pedals).

Bulletproof, sounds good, not overpriced, one of the Roland DuoCaptures has worked on *every* machine I've tried it with without bitching or problem, across multiple DAWs.

<$100.

[sylnau]

Soundcard (M-Audio Audiophile 2496) start working again.
So I guess I'll keep my money for some new fuzzzzzzz.

[sylnau]

Steinberg UR22, any good?

http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/au ... /ur22.html

[sylnau]

Ok, I've done some research...

What would you guys choose between those (and why?):

-PreSonus, Audiobox
-Native-Instruments, Komplete Audio 6
-Focusrite, Scarlett 2i4
-Roland, Quad-Capture UA55

[rustywire]

M-Audio gave me nothing but headaches. The ticket prices are attractive but their recording products taxed my time and patience, and ultimately got in the way of my sonic goals.

I resisted buying a Mac for audio until I wanted to step up my game and get serious back in 2011.

In researching the differences between platforms I learned that interfaces for Macs are developed around the machine you will be using. The exact Bios & CMOS, and ultimately the OS. The deviation is in clockspeed/memory/storage. The results are software/drivers that <yuck> just work.

PCs, by comparison...lack that standardization of hardware and software. So you wind up trying to pair 2 pieces of hardware that theoretically should interface with each other, but the device with the benefit of hindsight wasn't specifically developed around your specific existing hardware. This is where the drivers become problematic. They should work in theory. <citation needed>



TL;DR. 2 words: Apogee converters.

[univalve]

Ok, I've done some research...

What would you guys choose between those (and why?):

-PreSonus, Audiobox
-Native-Instruments, Komplete Audio 6
-Focusrite, Scarlett 2i4
-Roland, Quad-Capture UA55

Presonus Audio Box.
I have the Firepod since 5 years at the rehearsal space and it works brilliant. Plus it has MIDI.

[sylnau]

Presonus Audio Box.
I have the Firepod since 5 years at the rehearsal space and it works brilliant. Plus it has MIDI.

That might be a good choice.
And the software package with Studio One seems interesting.

N-I Komplete Audio 6 has Cubase and some othe interesting software too.
But I've heard better comment about the PreSonus preamp.

[MannequinRaces]

Love my Firepod. Presonus makes some solid stuff. The preamps do sound nice. Like nice in the way that there's no coloration to the sound. Very clean.

[sylnau]

There is only two left...

I should choose between The PreSonus AudioBox 22vsl or the Roland Quad Capture.

The software with the Roland Quad-Captre with Sonar XL seems very interesting too.

Roland or PreSonus?

[Haki]

Ok, I've done some research...

What would you guys choose between those (and why?):

-PreSonus, Audiobox
-Native-Instruments, Komplete Audio 6
-Focusrite, Scarlett 2i4
-Roland, Quad-Capture UA55

I have the NI Komplete Audio 6 and like it. It has two built in pre-amps / line-ins, MIDI in/out, it powers through USB, headphone out on the front, plus it feels solid. Also comes with Cubase and and a bunch of NI software.

[sylnau]

I'll probably go with the NI Komplete Audio 6.
The software package seems to be perfect for me.

[MannequinRaces]

Good thing you're not a politician. NI makes some great stuff. I'm hoping they port some stuff to Reason Rack Extensions but I'm highly doubtful. Sounds like a good choice though.

[sylnau]

Good thing you're not a politician.

Yep,

It was a though choice.
I like PreSonus, I had a BlueTube in the past.
But I'll be more at ease with the package included with Komplete Audio 6.
And I don't want to put more money on software at the moment.

Thanks all.