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mglenn
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 Posted - 07/30/2006 : 2:21:09 PM
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First let me give thanks to Scott for his excellent books!
They are worth the bucks
and no I don't get a kickback. ;-)
My business, I provide remote support for computers over the web.
I can squeeze the juice out of any system.
Scott, may I post business contact info here?
If this information seems a bit scattered it is because I am just sorting things out.
I have been using an Guillemot Isis 8 audio in with midi device for years whith Sonar. " This is still working great with older versions / pre wdm-asio Sonar on win 98se.
I have been forced into new gear as the old but great audio interface doesn't work with WDM or ASIO.
1. I am now using an MOTU 828 MKII �Awesome sound quality� and am not sure if I should upgrade to the next unit �(MOTU) 896HD I have read some bad reviews on the 896HD " possibly due to non technical users " but am not sure what to believe� the 896HD has 8 amplified microphone inputs instead of just two that are on the 828MKII, but the 896HD has no midi.
Sales people are telling me that I will need expensive mic preamps, if I understand them correctly they are indicating the MOTU preamps aren't that great. ' Is this just a sales pitch? "
I have been looking at the Tascam control surfaces like the 1884 which has 4 midi ins, I believe 8 preamped audio ins and a control surface.
I would greatly appreciate some input on the tascam device as it looks good on paper. ;-)
What have you heard about the Tascam equipment related to audio quality / mic amps, latency handling?
I would also like to hear some feedback about the PreSonus FIREPOD 10-Channel FireWire Interface
I am wondering if the mighty MOTU AD input will need input preamps to function recording 8 audio inputs.
Sameday music.com will let you purchase and test their equipment for up to 60 days and return it with no questions asked. �Great way to try things out�
I am also using Warfedale 8.1 Diamond Proactive monitors, these sound awesome to me but I haven�t compared them with others.
Thanxz,
Am I on the rite track with this gear?
�Cakewalk techs seem to be partial to the MOTU� for the user who doesn't mind the extra setup.
My setup:
1: 3.0 GHZ Prescott CPU
2. 4GB ram
3. Nvidia 6800ultra for video " great for dual monitor support"
3. XP Pro 32bit
4. 1 350 GB and for datd a second 250MB WD7200 EIDE drives.
5. Cakewalk Sonar 5 Producer
6. MOTU 828MKII
7. Warfedale 8.1 diamond short field reference monitors.
8. I will be building a 64 bit system with XP 64 as soon as some money falls out of the sky. ;-)
P.S. I have tried the MOTU Microlite and it is awesome for a portable firewire device.
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garrigus
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Posted - 08/03/2006 : 2:20:41 PM
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Hi mglenn,
Sorry for the late reply... having a bad week. 
Thanks for the kudos on my books! Sure, you can post contact info in your profile. At the top of the page you'll see a Profile link in the menu. Click that to edit your profile and you can include your info there. Then when someone clicks on your username, they can read your profile.
Unfortunately, I haven't used the equipment that you're asking about, but let me see if I can help a bit...
MOTU does manufacture quality products. I've heard good things from others. I've been using Echo Audio and have stuck with them because their products are great too. I recently got a FireWire interface from Cakewalk and am liking that as well.
As for upgrading the MOTU, do you really need 8 mic inputs? If you don't then I don't see any reason to upgrade. You're using the 828 now and said the sound quality is great, right? Forget the sales people. Go with what your ears tell you.
Regarding the monitors... try comparing your mixes to some professionally mixed and mastered CDs. Do your mixes sound as good? If so, then your monitors are probably doing a good job for you.
I really don't see anything wrong with your current system, but it all depends on what you want to do? Are you recording just yourself or an entire band?
Let's also see if some others here have any info about the equipment you asked about...
Scott
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