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Silly me.
Since I had to get a new mac for home business anyway,
I thought that a Focusrite Saffire firewire interface would sound good.
Wrong.
I'm returning it today.
The converters killed much of the stereo space and headroom.
What is interesting is that I use the old Digidesign 882 interface from 1994.
At 44.1 khz it sound exactly like the bus signal before it leaves the mixer.
Focusrite Saffire at 96 khz sounds like dog doo doo.
I guess Digidesign put a lot more engineering into their interface in 1994, they were just coming out then and really wanted to impress the industry.
What's even more sickening is the software these days.
This thing came with Cubase. Has so many buttons and is very clumsy to record, doesn't do exactly what I want it to do , which is just to act as a recording box with ins and outs and let me use my mixer to control and sound in different channels.
But the old Digidesign Session 8 software had it right from the beginning.
This software is so simple it comes on 1 floppy disk.
It has 2 mix modes, INTERNAL & EXTERNAL.
I'll use INTERNAL mix mode for bouncing digitally.
But mostly keep it on EXTERNAL mix mode for mixdown from reel-to-reel tape.
And its so simple, I just pan the software mixer 1,3,5,7 to the left,
and 2,4,6,8 to the right and presto, works like studios worked before computer bull.
Why are the other new softwares like Cubase and Cakewalk so complicated?
I don't get it.
Anyway what I am saying is, I thought that computer recording had come a long way for low price stuff, and that maybe it would be equal to something that I bought back in 1994 for $3000.
WRONG!!
I just don't know how much longer I can keep the old Mac Quadra 840 working.
Does anyone know about a firewire interface that actually sounds good these days?
Since I had to get a new mac for home business anyway,
I thought that a Focusrite Saffire firewire interface would sound good.
Wrong.
I'm returning it today.
The converters killed much of the stereo space and headroom.
What is interesting is that I use the old Digidesign 882 interface from 1994.
At 44.1 khz it sound exactly like the bus signal before it leaves the mixer.
Focusrite Saffire at 96 khz sounds like dog doo doo.
I guess Digidesign put a lot more engineering into their interface in 1994, they were just coming out then and really wanted to impress the industry.
What's even more sickening is the software these days.
This thing came with Cubase. Has so many buttons and is very clumsy to record, doesn't do exactly what I want it to do , which is just to act as a recording box with ins and outs and let me use my mixer to control and sound in different channels.
But the old Digidesign Session 8 software had it right from the beginning.
This software is so simple it comes on 1 floppy disk.
It has 2 mix modes, INTERNAL & EXTERNAL.
I'll use INTERNAL mix mode for bouncing digitally.
But mostly keep it on EXTERNAL mix mode for mixdown from reel-to-reel tape.
And its so simple, I just pan the software mixer 1,3,5,7 to the left,
and 2,4,6,8 to the right and presto, works like studios worked before computer bull.
Why are the other new softwares like Cubase and Cakewalk so complicated?
I don't get it.
Anyway what I am saying is, I thought that computer recording had come a long way for low price stuff, and that maybe it would be equal to something that I bought back in 1994 for $3000.
WRONG!!
I just don't know how much longer I can keep the old Mac Quadra 840 working.
Does anyone know about a firewire interface that actually sounds good these days?