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can someone give me a very basic explanation of what the point of this is? I understand you can get ad/da converters with light-pipe to add channels to your digital mixer but idk what else it's for.

Could you use it to have all your mics go through the 8 channels of the ad/da converter then from the output of the converter go to the 8 channels of your mixer? Will it make a dramatic difference or is this mainly just used as an additional 8 channels?

Thanks
 
What is the question, why stand alone converter vs some combo thing?
 
Although I don't entirely understand the question here's what I use my ad/da for...

I use a Firepod which has 8pres and 8 digital (16 tracks total = 8pres + 1 spdif) so sometimes I'll run from a mixer (or just preamps) into the ad part of it (ad/da) into my Firepod, now I have 16 tracks to play with and record to, then I run the 8 outs on my firepod to a D-D converter into a 7.1 mix down...

But you could use a AD part of it (ad/da) to mix 8 tracks from a mixer into the digital format for the same 7.1 mix down without using a Firepod...
 
buryher17 said:
can someone give me a very basic explanation of what the point of this is? I understand you can get ad/da converters with light-pipe to add channels to your digital mixer but idk what else it's for.

Could you use it to have all your mics go through the 8 channels of the ad/da converter then from the output of the converter go to the 8 channels of your mixer? Will it make a dramatic difference or is this mainly just used as an additional 8 channels?

Thanks
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one of the basic axioms of equipment seems to be that a specialized piece tends to better than when everythings shoved into one box... so with outboard convertors i should be better off than with say the convertors in my tascam controll surface... or are you asking about the light pipe more specificly?? it's just another type of conector no big deal except that it is digital data.... as to the last paragraph... the mics typicly wouldnt go straight to the convertors a preamp is necessary... and yes your convertor output can go to a mixer if you want... that would be what people call mixing "out of the box"....
 
im sorry for not being clear. I basically just want a better understand of what the ad/da converter is used for. In my mind i see it used almost as a "pre amp" for things that are recorded acoustically so the sound can be transfered better to the mixer.

But that's just what I'm thinking. I just wanted to understand the point of ad/da converters.
 
perhaps you're over thinking this....

simply... we need to convert the sound to digital info... so you can buy mixers with convertors, preamps with convertors, or covertors to be used with whatever you've got laying around....either way you need to go from source to preamp to convertors to puter... do it in one box and you'll be compromising something (unless you buy high end console)do it seperates and you can roll your own bliss...
 
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