- Jan 11, 2011
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Hello everyone !
Here is the deal :
I need to go record a band in an other city, and there will be drum tracking.
I have my own little studio with a TDM pro tools but I cannot bring it with me for multiple reasons, it's too big (I don't own a car ) and it actually belongs to my dad ...... and a couple of rackmounted MCI strips (I WILL bring those, pure sex)
But appart from that I only own my good old toneport UX1 (you wouldn't believe what has been recorded through this... Check out the BTM songs - mixed by C.J Wall - in my signature, all D.Is are through this baby haha)
On location there will be a nice room with an isolated control room, all the cable blabla but that's all.
First thing I thought was : OK I'm gonna borrow my friend's MOTU traveller.
Then I realised 8 inputs is going to be a bit short for me.... (I like to have 2 snare tops, a separate hihat / ride mic, at least one room mic.....)
So I thought it might be time for me to get my own 8 channels interface ( with ADAT so in this particular case I could use it + the MOTU ).
After a night raping sneap search and google it seems that with the little money I own right now the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 is the right choice.
If you have any advice on this one, other similar interface suggestion or whatever, feel free, although I think I read every possible thread mentioning it
so I'm pretty sure of my choice.
Question :
In what "order" should I chain those two interfaces ? (MOTU traveller and FOCUSRITE saffire pro 40 ) in other words, which one should I connect to my computer and which one should i use as a "standalone" preamp/converter going to the adat input of the first one ?
I really don't know what I should look for to make this choice.....
The other thing I'm concerned about is the clocking..... I think I can clock them together through ADAT ? (too bad the focusrite doesn't have wordclock in.out :'( )
Last but not least, It seems that there NEVER is a phase flip switch on any FW interfaces' preamp .... Is there any in the built in mixer software ?
Otherwise i'll just throw a phase inversion plugin inside pro tools when needed but it's pretty annoying....
Cheers sneapsters
Here is the deal :
I need to go record a band in an other city, and there will be drum tracking.
I have my own little studio with a TDM pro tools but I cannot bring it with me for multiple reasons, it's too big (I don't own a car ) and it actually belongs to my dad ...... and a couple of rackmounted MCI strips (I WILL bring those, pure sex)
But appart from that I only own my good old toneport UX1 (you wouldn't believe what has been recorded through this... Check out the BTM songs - mixed by C.J Wall - in my signature, all D.Is are through this baby haha)
On location there will be a nice room with an isolated control room, all the cable blabla but that's all.
First thing I thought was : OK I'm gonna borrow my friend's MOTU traveller.
Then I realised 8 inputs is going to be a bit short for me.... (I like to have 2 snare tops, a separate hihat / ride mic, at least one room mic.....)
So I thought it might be time for me to get my own 8 channels interface ( with ADAT so in this particular case I could use it + the MOTU ).
After a night raping sneap search and google it seems that with the little money I own right now the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 is the right choice.
If you have any advice on this one, other similar interface suggestion or whatever, feel free, although I think I read every possible thread mentioning it

Question :
In what "order" should I chain those two interfaces ? (MOTU traveller and FOCUSRITE saffire pro 40 ) in other words, which one should I connect to my computer and which one should i use as a "standalone" preamp/converter going to the adat input of the first one ?
I really don't know what I should look for to make this choice.....
The other thing I'm concerned about is the clocking..... I think I can clock them together through ADAT ? (too bad the focusrite doesn't have wordclock in.out :'( )
Last but not least, It seems that there NEVER is a phase flip switch on any FW interfaces' preamp .... Is there any in the built in mixer software ?
Otherwise i'll just throw a phase inversion plugin inside pro tools when needed but it's pretty annoying....
Cheers sneapsters