An AudioSport Duo and an RNC?

[Beezoboy]

Ok so I finally came into some money and can now afford an AudioSport Duo and an RNC. The question is can I use the two in conjunction?? Is there any way to get a compressor into the path? (inserts?) This has been bothering me. I know that both would be useful, but I would really like to have the compressor in the path before it hits the computer.

Gidge do you have the AudioSport?? Does anyone?? Please let me know.

Beezoboy

[Gidge]

i dont have it.....

it doesnt seem to have inserts....if its just a mono signal you could probably take the mic into channel 1 of the Duo, go out of channel1 into the RNC, then into channel 2 of the Duo.......

is there any reason why you are going with a USB card?.....

[crosstudio]

i've got the audiosport, and it does not have inserts, but what gidge said about routing out1 --> RNC --> in2 should work.

if you are recording 24bit why do you need the RNC? why wouldn't you just do a soundcheck to make sure that your loudest note isn't going to be above digital zero and do your processing after you record the raw track?

ps. i like the audiosport and the dmp3 or whatever they are called mic-pres sound slightly better than my 1604vlz pro, but I've beeen having problems with the WDM drivers for windows XP. i can only record 44.1khz/24bit whereas i prefer to record 48khz/24bit. so i had to switch to MME, which has a greater latency to be able to record at 48khz.

[Beezoboy]

Yeah, I decided to do forget the compressor and just pick up a couple mxl 603s' instead. I do a lot of recording of choirs and classical instruments and don't have that much of a need for compression anyway. I can't wait to hear the 603s' on a choir. It would be really nice to have compression when doing drums or rock vocalists though. 44.1k is just fine for me. Thanks for the help though.

Beezoboy

[goon88]

Hey crosstudio,

Do you use the direct monitoring capability of the Duo, or do you monitor direct (i.e. not mic'ed) inputs post-cpu?

I was checking out the Duo's manual, and as far as I could tell, the only way to get direct monitoring is to use it in stand-alone mode, but then you don't get any audio out of the computer. Have I misunderstood? Or do you just monitor using the computer outputs and accept the latency. How bad is the latency, by the way?

Thanks,
goon