ad/da converter PT digi001

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can anyone suggest a good ad/da converter for PT digi001? ideally i would like 8 channels and it has to have the lightpipe ins and outs and obviously be compatable with protools on windows XP. i'm looking at the Alesis AI-3 (or AE-3?) for about $400. if you have any other suggestions (any price range - maybe MOTU etc.) i'd appreciate them.
 
How'bout a 20bit ADAT? You can pick them up used pretty cheap and you've got a multifunction A/D/A box. New LX20's recently dropped in price, too. Pack it up with your mixer for remote recordings, then fly the tracks into PT for editing and overdubs. Its a pretty common way to get those extra 8 ins and outs.

I'm sure you can get better dedicated convertors, though. If you believe Alesis' assertion that the 4 bit difference between adat 20's and other 24bit gear is generally lost in preamp noise floor, though, it might not be a bad option. With any luck, I'll have mine soon and I'll let you know.

Anyway, that's going on a recommendation from a friend who runs a small pro studio. Even just one ADAT give him the ability to fly in any number of ADAT tracks- common enough in project studios- and he found the A/D/A worked well enough. Just have to track it right so you don't have to worry about those 4 bits.

Take care,
Chris
 
i like that idea, but i know nothing about ADAT. i have plenty of preamps and mixing boards, how do i connect them to an ADAT? is saw the back of one and all it had was a bunch of small plugs that looked like RCA or SPDIF plugs.
 
They are all unbalanced -10db RCA jacks. 8 in and 8 out. Well, there's the ADAT optical I/O, too.

Last time I had one, I just bought a bunch of high quaity 1/4" to RCA cables and hooked them up to the unbalanced outputs of my gear. I'm not quite sure how you'd use it with balanced gear or +4db level stuff, though I'll have to figure that out for hooking it up to the 002.

For the digital I/O, you just get ADAT optical cables (TOSLINK, I think) to go back and forth. So your mixer or preamps will go into the ADAT's RCA inputs, the signal goes out through the optical to the 001, and if you want to use the 001's ADAT channels for outboard mixing, they'll go back out the optical to the adat, and out it's RCA outputs to your gear. That's what I was told, at any rate. I didn't have digital I/O when I last had an ADAT.

Take care,
Chris
 
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