FINALLY!!!! I bought a Firepod!

[Loren Littlejohn]

It's all people that don't know what they are doing. The majority of people give it good ratings. I'll admit, mine has issues, but it's a windows thing, has nothign to do with Presonus.

I agree with that, same people that would give a mic pre a bad review because it distorts because they are morons and don't know how to use it.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

BTW you can also chain the

Firestation and focusrite pro 24.

Up to 3 each, and these units don't have that samplerate thing you were complaining about. But these come at a higher price.

 

[WeeFace]

YAY! They were able to get me 25' ones (still a little long but alot better than 50'!)

Dude... jsut cut them in half and get some XLR plugs...

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Dude... jsut cut them in half and get some XLR plugs...

I could but I saved money by calling them. But then again I could have had 10 instead of 5.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Well after 2 hours of installation issues(thank you very much Microsoft) I got my Firepod working. I haven't had a chance to plug any mics in yet, but I did manage to get my monitors hooked up. S/PDIF is an amazing thing. My monitors have a S/PDIF in so I gave it a shot. Sounds PRISTINE compared to what I'm used to, running my monitors the analog way off of my old Tascam US-428. Can't wait to lay down some guitar. But it will have to wait, since I have 3 finals tomorrow and haven't started studying for any of them.

Oh and I bought a Boss NS-2 to give it a shot. Let me tell you, that pedal is CRAP compared to the ISP products....

HAHAHAHAHA! Installation took as long as it took to place the firepod on a flat surface plug it in and connect the firewire cable:

I swear to god macs are better in this regard. Fuck drivers.

 

[Wolfeman]

HAHAHAHAHA! Installation took as long as it took to place the firepod on a flat surface plug it in and connect the firewire cable:

I swear to god macs are better in this regard. Fuck drivers.

Yeah Microsoft screwed the pooch with service pack 2, nothing but firewire issues. I was actually thinking about ditching my laptop and grabbing a Mac.... We shall see....

 

[JeffTD]

Audix fusion set

3 f10s, 1 f12, and 2 f15s.

I know, they probably will suck. But it's a start and it's all i can afford as of right now.

I didn't want to go uber cheapo though. And there are definitly cheaper sets.

Those F15's work well on hats/ride, but the rest were pretty crap when I tried them. Kick was alright, but I ended up sound replacing it 90% on the project I did.


And it should be known that XLR lines can get pretty damn long (around 100ft, IIRC) before loosing signal, and that's without phantom power mics.

I had no issues at all when setting my FirePod up with my MacBook. I plugged the firewire cable into it, my ext. HDD into the FirePod, turned it all on, and it worked in 5 seconds.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Ok, so I might buy one too in the near future but I'm not sure about two small things. As I really don't want to start ANOTHER firepod thread I'll post here:

1) When micing clean guitars / recording singers I often had a clipping problem on my current shit interface. I can't spend money on extra compressors/limiters atm so will I be fine with just the firepod or not?

2) As the firepod cannot phantom power every mic pre by itself I'm worried if I can attach a mic that doesn't need phantom power to a powered pre without doing harm to it. For example if I have less than 4 mics that need phantom power and the others don't and I need every pre at the same time.

Thx in advance.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Ok, so I might buy one too in the near future but I'm not sure about two small things. As I really don't want to start ANOTHER firepod thread I'll post here:

1) When micing clean guitars / recording singers I often had a clipping problem on my current shit interface. I can't spend money on extra compressors/limiters atm so will I be fine with just the firepod or not?

2) As the firepod cannot phantom power every mic pre by itself I'm worried if I can attach a mic that doesn't need phantom power to a powered pre without doing harm to it. For example if I have less than 4 mics that need phantom power and the others don't and I need every pre at the same time.

Thx in advance.

1: I have recorded some loud ass shit and yeah it has the ability to clip it still does well.

2: The firepod has switchable fantom power for preamps 1-4 and 4-8. So if you had 4 mics and not all of them needed phantom power you would be ok you would just have to use different pramps.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Hey, thanks for the reply but...

1: Sorry, I really don't get what your answer means - Is it possible to prevent it from clipping without additional gear when recording loud vocals/clean guitars and so on or not?

2: I know that you can only phantom power mics 1-4 and 5-8 at the same time. For what I need to know imagine the following situation.

8 mics, 2 of them need phantom power, the others don't. All of them need to be used at the same time.

Setting on the Firepod: Phantom power for mics 1-4: on 5-8: off

pre 1: phantom powered mic
pre 2: phantom powered mic
pre 3-8: non-phantom powered mic

So obviously the mics on pres 3-4 are getting phantom powered, even though they don't need it. Now: Are they being damaged by that or do they don't care?

Thanks again for help.

 

[nwright]

I used phantom power on only 2 mics on my setup and my dynamic's were fine. I had all 8 inputs running, of which only 2 needed phantom power...Never have had a problem.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Setting on the Firepod: Phantom power for mics 1-4: on 5-8: off

pre 1: phantom powered mic
pre 2: phantom powered mic
pre 3-8: non-phantom powered mic

So obviously the mics on pres 3-4 are getting phantom powered, even though they don't need it. Now: Are they being damaged by that or do they don't care?.

As far as that question one thing. I guess I didn't get what you were saying. Are you asking if the preamps clip? I mean I don't get why you would clip your preamps, just turn them down .


Dynamic mics are not a problem. If you for some reason were using a ribbon mic then yeah you would have to worry about the fantom power thing but you can plug a 57 into a pre with fantom power on and it aint gonna hurt it.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Now we're getting in the right direction...

Point two is clear now, thanks!

As for question one: The thing is, that my current shit pre clips a lot when recording clean gtrs/vocals. The gain pot is like one millimeter opened or something like that. Anything more is way off in the reds... It doesn't have a pad switch or something like that.

As I don't have any comparison I was just worried that every pre would behave the same. Also had the problem on a Soundcraft board. So I hope I'll be fine cause I'll sound really fit into this thread as I reserved my FirePod yesterday (picking it up on Thursday, first session for a band: next week).

 

[HeadCrusher]

So finally: I bought a Firepod!
Everything seems to work fine so far, like it a lot.
One thing though:
The manual says that there should be 4 cds in the box. I only got 3, the ACID XMC is missing. What's that? Am I missing something important?

 

[nwright]

I only got 2 when I got mine (about a year ago), Cubase LE and the driver disc.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I only got 2 when I got mine (about a year ago), Cubase LE and the driver disc.

+1

I doubt not having the acid disc is that big of a deal. Was it sony acid? Cause thats for loopin'!

 

[HeadCrusher]

And how many CDs did your manuals promise?

Dunno if it's Sony Acid it just says ACID(R) XMC.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

And how many CDs did your manuals promise?

Dunno if it's Sony Acid it just says ACID(R) XMC.

Hmm never looked at the manual just plugged it in a went. I should look sometime.

 

[JBroll]

I don't know if you've found an answer to this yet, but phantom powering dynamic mics will do nothing to them in the vast majority of cases - 57s, i5s, and the like won't have any issues.

Jeff

 

[HeadCrusher]

Yeah, I guess it's that one: http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/showproduct.asp?pid=987
Well I think I'm gonna just forget about that, I'll probably check out the ProPak CD (It says there are Voxengo Plug Ins on it) though.

Hey Jeff, thanks for the reply the guy at the shop where I bought it already hooked me up with the info. Thanks anyway!