LiveOVErdrive
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Got things a little organized today. Eventually I'm gonna build a pair of 4u rack boxes to replace my cinder lock speaker stands and then start messing with building outboard gear.
Show Us Your Home Studio Setup!
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Got things a little organized today. Eventually I'm gonna build a pair of 4u rack boxes to replace my cinder lock speaker stands and then start messing with building outboard gear.
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Solodini
MORE RESTS!
I approve of the colour organisation of your medal ribbons. What sports are they from?
LiveOVErdrive
CNC hack
Those are my fiancé's running medals. I run too but in not as into doing races as her (or as good at them). I did build her the hanger board though.
LiveOVErdrive
CNC hack
Built my rack case on my lunch break! Less than an hour total.
Patch bay, interface, and eleven rack. I need to figure out how to jury rig my pcie firewire card into my mini itx case
Patch bay, interface, and eleven rack. I need to figure out how to jury rig my pcie firewire card into my mini itx case
Reasoning Reflections
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LiveOVErdrive
CNC hack
Beautiful. I love the 1176 (clone?)
Printer: ....help...!
Reasoning Reflections
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Yes bro, its a warm audio one but its fantastic, slight differences from the original but as close as a budget clone can get imo!
LiveOVErdrive
CNC hack
I've been eyeing that one and the klark teknik one. Good to know the WA one is good.
Kobalt
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I just absolutely love this thread, and I feel like it's not updated often enough. 
This is my setup :
- Neve RNDI
- Roland Quad Capture
- Presonus Eris E66
- KRK KNS 8400
- Torpedo Captor (Not in the pic)
- Darkglass B7K (Not in the pic)
- Studio One 4
The parallel output of the DI is send to the Korg DTR2000 but it suck a lot of life of the sound so I got a TU-3w when I want to use a real amp.
No foam on the wall or anything because I don't have a dedicated room, so I mainly use the KRK.
I still think about upgrading the Quad Capture for an Audient id44, but I don't know if the sound will be better or not.
I use my DI with plugins 99% of the time so.. Any advice ?
I'll sing the praise of my Audient ID14 any day, but unless you have specific problems with your current interface I'm not sure its a worthwhile upgrade. Looking to the right side on your desk I think you got the important part covered. More expensive DA/AD probably isn't the missing piece here.
Not knowing the quality of the Quad Capture I could be mistaken.
Thank you very much for your reply !
I don't have any problem with the quad capture since I use Studio One. The latency is decent but I can't tell if the sound quality is good or not. It sure can be clearer but seriously, I don't know if the upgrade worth the extra money or not.
To put it in context:
My Audient ID14 sounds just as good, if not better, than my fathers older RME FireFace. The price points were, and are still, quite dissimilar and totally favours the Audient when you don't consider extra inputs a necessary feature. Drivers for both brands feel just as solid in my experience.
I "upgraded" from a Focusrite Saffire pro 24 because of issues with firewire on my new desktop. Prior to that I had an earlier gen Scarlett with known problems with clipping DIs, hence the swap to a Saffire. When checking the Saffire and Audient back to back I notice only a few major differences: The DI input on the Audient does have some special sauce as claimed, and the headphone amp drives my Beyer DT770 80 ohms way cleaner and louder. Everything else is an upgrade soundwise, but very minor.
My take on this issue is that most current interfaces are good enough to record whatever you need, and send a clean signal for monitoring. Headphone outputs and DI impedance/levels are features where some interfaces could cheap out, but most current gen interfaces are good enough. Your Neve RNDI most likely has you covered.
Where AD/DA does matter is when you introduce outboard gear and several digital->analogue->digital runs.
Thank you for your feedback !
The quad capture is a bit old but still usefull and if a last gen card can do better, I can think about it, but I want to notice the difference. The Id44 is 550€ with a lot of cool features. I want to have a better overall sound without spending 2000€.
I think about he apollo Twin usb, but I don't need all this plugins stuff and the price is a little bit overkill (Maybe I'm wrong and this cards are really good).
The thing I miss today on my quad capture is :
- An output to send a signal to a reamp box
- A different knob for the headphone output and the monitor output
- A cristal clear sound
I will think about all this again and again but thank you very much for your help !
Worst case the Audient ID22 has all those features, and should sound the same for less money.
dogletnoir
The Anti-Fripp
Yep, i'm a minimalist, LOL.
This album was recorded with that same basic setup:
https://pezhed1.bandcamp.com/album/black-on-black
lewis
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Im pretty much doing away with a recording setup in favour of a compact all in one "guitar corner".
This is half way through (i only got this IKEA shelf this evening)
Long term plan is a 2x12 at the bottom in place of the bottom shelf
This is half way through (i only got this IKEA shelf this evening)
Long term plan is a 2x12 at the bottom in place of the bottom shelf
