keep in mind that there are only a few companies making the converter chips. the roland vs 2000 is a newer piece and is probably in the same ball park as that alsesis crap. so i would compare first. lucid is nice but i like the mytek.
the bottom line with modeling guitars and electronic drums is that it allows a person who is just getting starting in the art of recording to get decent sounds right off the bat. take any 2 newbies to recording and give one of them a pod and a roland v drum kit and put them against a newbie that...
the 1680 roland is only 20 bit so going to 24 bits with the art DIO as well as a better converter WILL BE NIGHT AND DAY i have used my brothers a couple years back so i know. do a search for THE BORDER CABLE COMPANY if you have any doubts to its quality. im thinking its better than the flying cow.
the art unit has a DIO converter in it. it has been known by the audiophile types to kick some butt just do a internet search. for the price you cant go wrong. you will get a good converter much better than the roland and a mic pre that will keep you busy with all its different settings for a...
audio technica 4047 is nice. . also check out v69 marshall . i dont know if warm and dark would be all that multi purpose though. a good cleaner alternative would be a audio technica 4040 around 200$ on the ebay.
are you saying using this as a analog to digital converter is the shaz nit. im thinking of getting onde for its converters and mix down capabilities. getting 2 uses out of a unit is a great thing.
you know they use good equipment because when you hear howard outside the studio he sounds like a high pitched mouse. i have to lower the bass on my radio to even listen to him.
for live it should work fine. i have converted samples much lower than that and have gotten useable sounds with my gig band.my ensoniq sampler limits me to 64 meg so i feel your pain in conserving memory. a good rule of thumb is to look at the material your sampling frequency wise and take the...