Gorty
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Yep, that's what I'd do, then, as you say, move them to the tracks you want them to be once they're in.
Geoff
OK, thanx Geoff! Stay tuned for some more n00bish style questions!
Yep, that's what I'd do, then, as you say, move them to the tracks you want them to be once they're in.
Geoff
If the issue with the Boss pre is noise, then an external pre is a valid solution. It is still better to bypass unnecessary amp stages, irrespective of their quality.
Thanx Rich. How would the BR1600 turn it back to analog?Then-don't let the BR1600 turn it back into analog, if you can help it.
The BOSS Unit has 8 xlr inputs.In reallity that too should add a couple of inputs to that unit.
If I designed one of these Id upgrade the preamps onboard and get rid of the LCD displays in favor of a VGA output to offset the costs...and of course 8 xlr inputs...no faders handling 2 tracks at once and a mixer like interface with motorized faders.
Definitely +1 on using external preamps on a standalone!
Good luck with the Boss! You should be fine running through the inputs with the gain down, and it will probably be much better than the internal preamps for anything critical. There will be an small effect from that gain stage even at unity, but not one that matters.
Cheers,
Otto
I could write a book about how I recorded an album on a Roland V-studio, and bypassed everything it does badly. What I find that it did well, was- it is a very good mixer, it is stable hard drive that never dropped or corrupted a file, and it actually has several very useful plugins. It is also very good for complex time-based editing. It's the devil I know. I can pull up wave forms and do most erases, cuts, cross-fades, etc., faster than I can do them in Pro Tools.
I still use the Joemeek and Roland combination for remote stereo recording, and it still does a very good job, but by and large, I haven't used any of its preamps in over 4 years. On the other hand, the machine has lasted 6 years, and never dropped a file.-Richie
Yo Gorty! If you were to send the main outs or an aux out to external FX, a send and return or anything that isn't a digital signal, the Boss would turn it back into an analog signal to do that. So- once the signal is in the BOSS, you can either mix it down and apply fx, EQ, compression, whatever, in the Boss, or send the tracks as WAV files to a big computer and process them there. Then you can either burn straight to CD, or dither the tracks down to 16bit/44.1kHz in the computer (assuming they weren't tracked in 16/44.1 to begin with) and burn from there. Or you can burn the raw tracks to CD as WAV files and hand them to the nice mixing engineer. All I'm saying is that you only want to turn the analog signal into a digital signal *once*.
And of course, using the digital in on the BOSS does *not* increase your inputs, because the software only permits 8 simultaneous recording tracks, and I'm guessing 16 out simultaneous. I recorded an entire album the way we are talking about, mostly one and two tracks at a time. The only time the SIAB's pres were ever used was for tracking drums. Unfortunately, my machine is more primitive than yours, and does not export WAV files. So we had to export the tracks by S/PDIF to Pro Tools, 2 at a time, in real time, and then synch them manually, which was a royal PIA. Then the mixing and mastering were done in Pro Tools. I could write a book about how I recorded an album on a Roland V-studio, and bypassed everything it does badly. What I find that it did well, was- it is a very good mixer, it is stable hard drive that never dropped or corrupted a file, and it actually has several very useful plugins. It is also very good for complex time-based editing. It's the devil I know. I can pull up wave forms and do most erases, cuts, cross-fades, etc., faster than I can do them in Pro Tools.
I still use the Joemeek and Roland combination for remote stereo recording, and it still does a very good job, but by and large, I haven't used any of its preamps in over 4 years. On the other hand, the machine has lasted 6 years, and never dropped a file.-Richie
Gorty is such a newbie...... Hi gortitude. When is the Gorty Fanclub Gang gonna get their PROMISED video newsletter from aussie land? BTW, finish the Kitchen yet? Well what is taking you so long?
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