:S the digi002 only has 4 pre-amped inputs. to record a kit i'm going to want 8, and cant afford to spend out on more mic pre's ??
so i got about £400
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Aaron Smith
Envisage Audio
Get the 002 and then the cheap Behringer ad800...at least it will give you enough inputs. Then after one piddly little paying project, you could easily have enough to then upgrade to a Presonus Digimax and then sell the Behringer.
MetalJonesy
more metal, more booze!!!
yer as you were saying if you want to go pro tools, do it before you commit to other gear, id deffo do summat like aaron says, im gnna do the same, but im already gnna have the motu 8 pre for the adat inputs into the digi.
Have you not thought about finance, i know soundcontrol, or one up here, soundslive.co.uk will do a 6 month finance, where you dont pay interest. which is what im gnna do next month!!
noarin
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there's always the presonus firepod, with 8 pre'amps and a digital (so possibly 9 channels) midi in, midi out, 287 pounds; you can almost buy 2 and link them to do 16 channels of drums! I have no complains on the pre-amps, they sound good! very easy to use interface
http://www.thomann.de/gb/presonus_firepod.htm
- Rob
hmm sounds good and ideal for most kids, but i want more respectable pre'sm which will mean spending out that bit extra
noarin
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sure dude, whatever you want; but the firepod aint for kids, the difference in pre's is not the biggest difference in the world opposed to mic placement, guitars, amp's and settings or drums; I've heard insane results coming from firepod's; and it's not too expansive so you can almost buy 2 and get 16 channels; which will most likely make your drumkit sound a whole lot better but as I said, whatever you want.
AdamWathan
Member
No it doesn't, I scoured the manual and played with every setting for hours, even Focusrite e-mailed me and told me it doesn't have pads.
AdamWathan
Member
I was hoping you'd prove me wrong and convince me to buy a Saffire again instead of continuing my painful hunt for an Onyx 1200F
broken81
Used by Protools
This is my plan but im still stuck with the behringer ada8000 cause im saving my money for some new monitors first. But yea the 002 and the ada8000 has been more than enough preamps for me so far.
the fire pod has 10 inputs if you use spdif and the preamps are the same or better than other interfaces even in higher price ranges
AdamWathan
Member
The Firepod has very limited expandability though, if I was buying a Presonus interface the only one I would consider would be the Firestudio... I'm still very curious to hear some reviews about the new M-Audio Profire 2626 once it's released, I think that would be my first choice on paper...
i would start with a fp then buy an rme ff 400 if i was going to upgrade to an expandable interface
AdamWathan
Member
Not a terrible idea since you can use the analog outputs of the Firepod to run it as just a mic pre into the RME's A/D...
Still, I say get the M-Audio Profire 2626. You can learn ProTools with that plus have the ADAT expandability...
keep in mind that if your using light editions of pt your track count is limited so if your dedicating that many tracks to drums, and planning on quad tracking guitars ect. you may run in to complications unless you sub group tracks which is a nuisance
MetalJonesy
more metal, more booze!!!
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MetalJonesy
more metal, more booze!!!
does the 32 include group bus tracks (like how you add group tracks to create busses in nuendo)
