a.saario@lancaster.ac.uk
Date: Sat Nov 27 2010 - 11:02:12 EST
Can mirror Pierre's views on the Digi boxes. We have had them in tenfold
and myriad's of problems with drivers, broken relays, powersupplies (on
digi 002s). However, the new Avid Mbox is in a whole different league and
so far only good things to report on that (i.e. better built and sound
quality than the 'blue' plastic things they used to sell as audio
interfaces...). 003 is also considerably better designed than 002 and the
old mboxes.
Have had few Motu interface go belly up as well and the build quality is
not on par with RME or certainly not with the next level of things (e.g.
Metric Halo 2882). Also their routing software is very unflexible in
comparison to 2882, but that is more money...
Have heard students do some decent work on Saffires. No hands on
experience, but sound quality seemed good (read better than the Mboxes and
Maudios) and they come with plenty of options on the I/O front for the
money, but if the clocking is not playing ball, as reported by Pierre,
then that is much for nothing.
Cheers,
Antti
On Sat, 27 November, 2010 11:27 am, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
> Just had my 1st (and last) Saffire experience yesterday... clocking
> problems, random clicks, strange driver behaviour... I am used to RME and
> MOTU in the mid-range price and these are the only one so far that
> deliver every time.
>
> Stay away from DigiMbox as they are still stuck in the 90s model (and
> their driver is the worse ever)
>
> p
>
>
> Le 2010-11-27 à 05:47, Alexandre Matheson a écrit :
>
>
>> +1 for metric halo
>>
>>
>> 2882 has never failed me.
>>
>>
>> Their newer units come with a 2d card that handles the dsp load making
>> it very stable for concert recordings if you use the units record
>> panel. With the +DSP license you get a ton of handy plugins that also
>> run off the 2d card as well. They can be patched together in a modular
>> environment that makes mid-side eqing and compression easy. The on
>> board mixer is 80 bit.
>>
>> Have a look at the website as you may find it to be overkill and more
>> efficient to simply rent it.
>>
>> As far as computer based setups for recording concerts or "only one
>> chance" type stuff I highly recommend it.
>>
>> http://www.mhlabs.com/metric_halo/products/
>>
>>
>> best, alex
>>
>> On 2010-11-26, at 4:55 AM, <roald.baudoux@brutele.be>
>> <roald.baudoux@brutele.be> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I think RME is the best (but also most expensive) choice in the mid
>>> range before the really expensive interfaces like Lynx, Apogee or
>>> MetricHalo.
>>>
>>
>
>
-- Dr Antti Sakari Saario Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) Lancaster University, LA1 4YW, UK Tel: +44(0)1524594496 / Fax: +44(0)1524 39021
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