Saving up for a Profire 2626...

Damian B

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K, so I've pretty much decided that a Profire 2626 is going to be my holiday present to myself. I've put some money put aside for it already and after Hanukkah/Christmas I should have enough.

I've done a fair amount of research and it seems to be the best option for the money, and I can run protools which would allow me to edit drums (and then mix in reaper of course :headbang:).

Anyways, are there any reasons that I should get something else? btw my budget is $700, and I would like 8 channels.

Thanks!
 
The Profire is great, I think you'd have to spend alot more to get a significant improvement.

If you're looking to use PT for drum editing be aware that without the music production toolkit you'll not have multitrack beat detective. However there are workarounds.
 
The Profire is great, I think you'd have to spend alot more to get a significant improvement.

If you're looking to use PT for drum editing be aware that without the music production toolkit you'll not have multitrack beat detective. However there are workarounds.

Dammit... elastic audio would work though, right?
 
K, so I've pretty much decided that a Profire 2626 is going to be my holiday present to myself.
Same. Best of luck dude and have fun.

Dammit... elastic audio would work though, right?
Well I have used it and it works pretty well (beat detective too), but the real problem for me is overheads for example snare hits in the OH being out of place with the snare track.
 
I have a MOTU 8pre, a Presonus Firestudio 2626 and the Profire 2626.
I've been using the M-Audio for a few weeks, but it seems more stable and full of features. My Presonus is useless as it has some problems on channels 1-8. And the MOTU is not that stable plus a shitty support
 
I just purchased one 3 weeks ago. I'm recording next weekend with my drummer. Just a quick demo. I got my Audix Fusion 7 mics today, I couldn't afford the Audix DP series, ah well.
 
Well I have used it and it works pretty well (beat detective too), but the real problem for me is overheads for example snare hits in the OH being out of place with the snare track.

you didn't group the drums.

Stick with Beat Detective - see the "I love Pro-Tools" thread.

you can still edit drums like a mad man without the MPTK. my workflow right now in LE is perfect, and I too mix in reaper after tracking/editing. to edit drums, first GROUP THEM, and then:

1. tab to transient, and snip at every 1/4 note or half 1/2 note transient that you know will quantize right. (you'll get a feel for it quick). do a section at a time, and your result should be a bunch of regions, snipped across all tracks, making a grid of 1/4 note or 1/2 note long chunks.
2. alt+0 and quantize regions. if you snipped at every 1/4 note transient, then quantize 1/4 notes, etc. i've found that because you're quantizing a specific note length, this should be sure-fire 100% every time, once you're good at it. go through and do the song in sections. you tend to be more likely to get mistakes when you snip everything like crazy and try to quantize it all to 16th notes and expect everything to snap into place.
3. after you've quantized, highlight all the sliced regions (still grouped) and bring up beat detective (it doesn't need to be the multi-track) and using edit smoothing, do capture selection, set to fill gaps and crossfade 5 ms (ymmv) and smooth the fades.
4. consolidate, move onto the next section
5. after going through the whole song like this, i go back and make fine-tune adjustments and do fills/technical things with elastic audio. since you've already quantized the easier stuff, none of the stretches will go especially far, and as long as you render in x-form when you're done, the artifacts are extremely minimal, if not undetectable. EA is amazing.

also... yes, get the profire.

...then give it to me.
 
Question;

I want the drummer to hear me playing guitar through the Profire inst 1 option (scratch guitar, so there's no bleed later)

Can I still track 8 mics at one time (or does me plugging Inst 1 cancel the use of the 8th mic option?)

Sorry for the n00b-like question.

-avi
 
Yeah; using the Hi-Z inputs takes up Mic 1 and Mic 2 inputs; so you can either have two guitar inputs, six mics, ...or one guitar input, seven mics, ...or eight mics.
 
I was scared/figuring that was the case. haha.

thanks a lot for clearing it up.

I figure 7 mics should be sufficient for a quick demo.

ps - I know i'm pushing it, but would it work if I plugged my guitar cable in to the line outputs section of the profire (for the scratch) - would I save the 8th mic? I know, i know i'm pushing it haha
 
RME Fireface 800 you will never regret.

mild thread hi-jack: what's the most practical workaround for using a fireface in PT? m-audio lightbridge? that would maintain the sexiness of the fireface converters, right? i'm not too familiar with the lightbridge but if it's taking ADAT that means the conversion already took place and the lightbridge is just being a middle-step dongle for protools... ... does this make sense? or is there a more practical way of doing it?
 
Absolutely loved my Profire 2626 untill I noticed today that the instrument inputs might be fucked up. It seems that the signal is going in way hotter than before.

Also when I pick hard it distorts the sound even if it was peaking at -7db. I'm really pissed off now. Christmas holiday was just about to start and I would have had time to write some songs...:cry: