Green to ADAT

[punkin]

I'm a little slow in the ADAT department. I'm looking to add 4, maybe 8 channels and there are a number of mic pre packages out there that look tempting. The one's that keep grabbing my attention have ADAT I/O's which in concept I understand but what escapes me is how does one make the connection between the micpre/ADAT device to the computer? I imagine there's a seperate interface that needs to be added. Yes/No?

After I consider the cost of adding four more mic pres and an additional Delta card, as I mentioned, some of these ADAT units look pretty tasty. Something like the Octo pre is what I had in mind.

Thanks...just doin' a little techno mind expansion.

[Adam P]

I believe you'd simply need a PCI card for your computer with ADAT Lightpipe in. RME is supposed to be good from what I understand. You'll also need to sync your multiple digital devices together, but they should all have the capability to do this.

[cpl_crud]

The RME Digi96 PAD 8 is a good little card, mine cost about AUD800. As well as having ADAT in/out, it's got 2-track analouge, SPDIF and AES/EBU. Plus the addon boards are handy.

[ez_willis]

I don't know what your budget is or your plans for the future and expansion, but the Hammerfall HDSP 9652 has pretty much everything you're going to need for awhile.

[punkin]

So...that's the sort of item it takes to get the digitized audio into the PC huh? I gather most people arent taking it direct to the PC but rather to some other type of recording device?

[ez_willis]

Originally Posted by punkin

So...that's the sort of item it takes to get the digitized audio into the PC huh? I gather most people arent taking it direct to the PC but rather to some other type of recording device?

I go into aTascam tm-d1000 then into the Hammerfall card to get it into the pc where I record using Logic

[chris-from-ky]

some people track to like an Alesis HD24 then dump them in to PC via fireport or in some cases re-track using the HD24 as the source and something like a MOTU 2408 or the RME 96/52 for the PC interface. At least I think the latter is done that way.