Rockbottom ADC

[Metaltastic]

Hey dudes, I'm in the process of designing my ideal studio setup, and I've settled on an RME Fireface 800, with 4 channels from the stock pres and 4 from as-yet-undecided external preamp sources. This will yield me 8 channels for mic'ing, which is sufficient for anything I'd need to track (read: drums), but the problem there is that I wouldn't have any left over for talkback or accompanying scratch tracks.

So what I'd like is some unbelievably shitty 2- or even 1- channel ADC that I can use for these utilitarian purposes by running it via SPDIF into the Fireface. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[2012]

Line 6 TonePort.

 

[Metaltastic]

Ah, but when I say rockbottom, I don't mean $200, and more importantly, I don't think there'd be a way to rout the outputs to SPDIF unless I had it enabled as the main ASIO driver, which of course would render the Fireface useless

 

[JeffTD]

If you grab a Presonus Eureka and it's digital card, you not only get the Eureka pre, which is quite awesome, but it's got an input for a second line-level source (theory being that you can run stereo Eureka's via SPDIF with only one digicard). You can plug a POD into there, too.

Or, Behringer makes that cheapshit ADA8000 8ch ADAT mic pre.

 

[TheDude]

Behringer IS rock bottom

 

[Metaltastic]

Haha, ain't it the truth...I guess I'll just look for some old shitty Behringer, cuz the Eureka looks sweet but is still way too pricey for the use (literally just for talkback/scratch tracks). Thanks though, dudes

 

[Daunt]

Fireface 800 has 10 AD converters. You will need only the mic pre.

 

[chadsxe]

Yell really loud. Its free

 

[Metaltastic]

Fireface 800 has 10 AD converters. You will need only the mic pre.

Wait wait wait...I thought it only had 8 analog ins, you're saying it has 10?

 

[sparkyness]

The Fireface 800 has analogue 8 ins/outs, but has 10 digital ins/out when factoring in the SPDIF.

From the RME site: Digital I/Os: Two ADAT optical I/Os allow for a connection and insertion of effects devices, mixing consoles or external converters. Of course, these 16 channels are available simultaneously with the analog channels. Using two additional ADI-8 DS, there are 26 analog inputs and outputs, which remain still 18 at 96 kHz. The coaxial SPDIF I/O works up to 192 kHz, so that there are still 10 analog in- and outputs at the highest sample rate, plus two digital ones

 

[Daunt]

The Fireface 800 has analogue 8 ins/outs, but has 10 digital ins/out when factoring in the SPDIF.

Wrong. Fireface 800 has 12 analog inputs (8 back/4 front) and you can use 10 of them at the same time.

"There is a total of 10 analogue input channels, although the Fireface offers quite a bit of flexibility in how you actually use the 10 available inputs."

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec04/articles/fireface.htm