the lexicon omega

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rankmanugly

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hey recording gurus,
im buying a lexicon omega setup.
what im wondering (if anyone knows about this thing) is:
will i need to buy a new soundcard aswell to make it so it works well enough to satisfy me?
i'd be recording into my laptop which is a AMD Sempron 2600 with 512MB RAM. the sound card is pretty crappy it think. im just not sure if the omega will use its own sound or will i be relying on my laptop sound card.
cheers heaps
Tom
ps. sorry i posted here, it wouldnt let me post under computer section.
 
hi...you wont need a soundcard, the omega IS a souncard and will bypass the crappy one on your laptop. ;)
 
in bios just disable onboard sound. but thats what soundcard are for, you definately wouldn't need a second card unless you had an actual reason for needing it (ie. more inputs, xlr in's etc)
 
im also wondering. does it have monitor outputs? i cant seem to see any in the specs....
what would be the best way to use monitors from this thing??
 
rankmanugly said:
im also wondering. does it have monitor outputs? i cant seem to see any in the specs....
what would be the best way to use monitors from this thing??
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well i own it and it has a left and right out (1/4")

thats what i use to hook into my monitors
 
ah, someone who owns one...
how do you rate it nick the man. is it s good buy? im trying to devide whether to move into computer recording or get like a 16 track fostex or roland or something...
anything or any advice you can give me about it would be great
cheers
 
well for what i record it doesn really fit my needs


you can only record 4 tracks simultaneously sooo ... ya gotta judge for that

other than that it works pretty good but i knda suggest saving up like 200 more dollars and getting something like a firepod or something ..... that is only if you want to record more than 4 tracks at the same time
 
i dont know anything about a firepod, what can you tell me. i dort of feel that 4 will be enough to record my drummer. is the program good. no latency from the machine? im new to computer recording setups
 
rankmanugly said:
i dont know anything about a firepod, what can you tell me. i dort of feel that 4 will be enough to record my drummer. is the program good. no latency from the machine? im new to computer recording setups
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oh if your only recording drums than this is probably perfect

to tell ya the truth ive never really understood what latency is so i couldnt tell ya

describe it to me and ill be able to tell you
 
im pretty sure latency is referring to, if you play something, say a chord on a guitar, is there a delay between playing the chord and hearing the result come out on the computer.

as for the firepod....does it have XLR and 1/4 inch inputs? i would be interested in recording a couple of XLR and a few normal jacks at the same time...
 
rankmanugly said:
im pretty sure latency is referring to, if you play something, say a chord on a guitar, is there a delay between playing the chord and hearing the result come out on the computer.

as for the firepod....does it have XLR and 1/4 inch inputs? i would be interested in recording a couple of XLR and a few normal jacks at the same time...
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no there is no latency


and yes the firepod has 4 XRL/1/4" inputs and 4 1/4" inputs
 
cheers heaps for your help dude.
im in australia and i can buy the omega for $730 from a shop here, or pay $790 for firefox shipped over free from ebay, new.
i guess you would recommend the firefox.....
cheers for all your help
 
rankmanugly said:
cheers heaps for your help dude.
im in australia and i can buy the omega for $730 from a shop here, or pay $790 for firefox shipped over free from ebay, new.
i guess you would recommend the firefox.....
cheers for all your help
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firefox?

wait let me find a link for the thing im talking about and then you can see if its the same thing
 
would a AMD Sempron 1.6Ghz be powerful enough for this or would i end up getting frustrated? it would suck if i ended up having to upgrade my laptop. its XP sp2 and 512RAM but only a sempron1.6
 
rankmanugly said:
would a AMD Sempron 1.6Ghz be powerful enough for this or would i end up getting frustrated? it would suck if i ended up having to upgrade my laptop. its XP sp2 and 512RAM but only a sempron1.6
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nah i think that should do the trick .. i mean i only got a 2.4 in my CPU and it works good

but im not too sure
 
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