Hi,
I currently have a Cakewalk (Roland) UA-101, with (2) mic pre's and (8) 1/4" inputs. My understanding is it is capable 10in 10out. It also has adat/lightpipe/fiber in/out.
Of course, now I want to be able to record more than 2mic's at the same time so my dilema is do I buy a new interface all together like a Presonus Firestudio or do I buy a 8 channel preamp only and connect it to the existing UA-101 via the 1/4" inputs.
I was thinking it makes more sense to put my $500 into a preamp only and go for higher quality preamps, but I am wondering if I am asking for trouble running it 1/4" into the UA-101?
The other tidbit would be I don't necessarily need 8 more preamps. I need to be able to run 4 preamps simultaneously so I could hypothetically just get another 2 inputs in a preamp. However we might be having the conversation about more inputs again in the future.
Thoughts?
-vf
I currently have a Cakewalk (Roland) UA-101, with (2) mic pre's and (8) 1/4" inputs. My understanding is it is capable 10in 10out. It also has adat/lightpipe/fiber in/out.
Of course, now I want to be able to record more than 2mic's at the same time so my dilema is do I buy a new interface all together like a Presonus Firestudio or do I buy a 8 channel preamp only and connect it to the existing UA-101 via the 1/4" inputs.
I was thinking it makes more sense to put my $500 into a preamp only and go for higher quality preamps, but I am wondering if I am asking for trouble running it 1/4" into the UA-101?
The other tidbit would be I don't necessarily need 8 more preamps. I need to be able to run 4 preamps simultaneously so I could hypothetically just get another 2 inputs in a preamp. However we might be having the conversation about more inputs again in the future.
Thoughts?
-vf