Time to change my audio interface ?

[xFkx]

So two days ago i decided to record the preamp tone from my cobra. For the last 1-2 years i have been only recording clean guitars and toying around with simulations so i didn't have a chance to witness what i've clearly heard yesterday...


ok, the thing is when i use monitoring in my soundcraft mixer the tone is pretty cool (the chain would be cobra->mixer->monitors)

but when i monitor inside the daw (chain would be cobra->mixer->daw->mixer->monitors) the sound is kind'a muffled and more lo-fi..

My audio interface is an audiotrak maya44 mkII

I assume that the loss of quality happens when the signal goes through all the A/D D/A's inside the audiotrak card...

Right now my assumption is that my card sucks tone.. am I right ?

If so, time to get a presonus firestudio ?

 

[Via Noctis]

I would look at something else beside presonus. I owned 2 firepods and had a lot of problems with the firewire ports being shitty.

 

[xFkx]

Mkay, i'll go for the saffire pro10 (although it has pro in it's name it's even cheaper then the presonus

 

[lolzgreg]

I would look at something else beside presonus. I owned 2 firepods and had a lot of problems with the firewire ports being shitty.

I've had a firepod that I've used almost every day for over 5 years. I've never had a problem. I also own another firepod and a firebox which I bought used. They work great. I would go for it.

 

[Via Noctis]

I've had a firepod that I've used almost every day for over 5 years. I've never had a problem. I also own another firepod and a firebox which I bought used. They work great. I would go for it.

I just had issues with the first gen. They seemed to wiggle out of the ports ridiculously easy. Looking at the new ones the look like they redid them. I actually bought the digimax d8 and firestudio lightpipe. should be here tomorrow.

 

[ahjteam]

I've been more than happy with my RME Multiface in my home, it has served me for hmm... almost 5 years now. It doesn't its own preamps tho, but I usually don't track more than one channels at a time and I have my SPL Track One for that purpose. And I also got the SM Pro Audio PR8E just in case I need to track more channels.

 

[Jaymz]

Mkay, i'll go for the saffire pro10 (although it has pro in it's name it's even cheaper then the presonus

Saffy Pro 10 is really good + cheap

 

[nwright]

I just had issues with the first gen. They seemed to wiggle out of the ports ridiculously easy. Looking at the new ones the look like they redid them. I actually bought the digimax d8 and firestudio lightpipe. should be here tomorrow.

I would agree with that to an extent. My FIrepod's FW ports seem looser than my FP10's, but not to the point where the cable just falls out.

I took a small screwdriver and just bent the grab tabs on the FW ports in a bit so they have a tighter hold now. Works perfect.

 

[beyond dead]

hahah fuck the fp is a classic to the fp