I have been thinking about building a passive mixer to play with just because I don't have enough projects going on at once. The I came across this http://www.digifreq.com/musictechshop/index.asp?ID=ART%20SPLITMix4 . I did the math and could barely build one for fifty bucks, so I got one.
I tried running my tracks to the four outs of my Echo Audiofire4 and back into 3 and 4, which don't have pres. It was awful. All kinds of artifacts and high comb filtering, just shite. I tried various things to no avail until finally, out of sheer brick-headed bloody mindedness I hauled my laptop down and hooked up the old E-MU 0404 USB. Four outs of the Echo into ART, 1 out split to 0404 into the lappy. Got a really nice track, but that's a pain in the ass way to get it.
Am I missing something about this OTB summing stuff?
I just DL'd the latest and most up-to-datest drivers for my A4, which reputedly support multi-client operation. I know Sonar doesn't like to share drivers, but I'm going to try Sonar out to ART to Sound Forge and see who salutes. Might blow the whole thing up. Kinda regret giving away that Tascam 4 track...
And monitored in the end by DAC that's...you guessed it...low end.
Unless you have solid DAC going into a nice box that's designed specifically to sum a final mix I've found the end results are pretty crappy. Dumping a mix to 1/4" tape is a different story, but doing the loopty loop back into your DAW is something I've never had much success with, even with solid converters and an analog board that has a decent sound.
All at once. AT 4050 on vocals, CAD 2000 on the guitar, Oktava M-012 on guitar, AKG Per. 200 room.
I put the latest drivers on the Echo, and now Sonar tells me that 3-4 are being used by another program and mutes the output. Could the Media Player be screwing me up?
Does your PC have a built-in soundcard? If so, I would assign Windows to use that built-in card so that it will leave the Echo alone. That way SONAR gets the Echo all to itself.
That's what I've done on my machine and it works great. No interference from Windows and SONAR gets exclusive access to the V700.
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Posted - 07/02/2012 : 4:39:02 PM
The I came across this 
