Alesis Vs Fostex?

[Dom Franco]

I have always been loyal to Alesis, Since the days of the microverb, MMT8 and on to Adats and all.

But I have been considering the Fostex 2424 as an alternative to the Alesis HD 24, for these reasons:

1. It's a little less expensive, about $100.00

2. It has a detachable front panel with all controls on it
so that you can punch in, enable tracks, etc. remotely.
(THE Hd 24 comes with an LRC, but you would still have to access the front panel for all these operations)
3. With the restructuring Alesis went through I wonder what service will be like? Fostex has been good to me.


OK blast away! anyone had experience with the Fostex?

Tell me I'm crazy... I'd love to have that HD24 in the rack right above my old ADAT's!

Sincerely;
DOM FRANCO

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Does the Fostex...

...have removable drive bays like the Alesis?

...hold 2 drives that allow effortless backup?

...allow hot-swapping the drives?

...use virtually ANY hard drive - including 5400rpm ones?

...drop-in to an ADAT rig with NO changes to the rig required?


These are some of the features I've seriously come to appreciate in the HD24... and I haven't even mentioned the sound quality, which is very very good!

 

[Dom Franco]

Yes the Fostex has swapable drives and IDE compatable,

I don't know the answers to your other very good questions!

Dom

 

[MISTERQCUE]

The 2424 cannot record 12 tracks @ 96khz or 24 @ 48.
Also, Fostex recognizes the Alesis line of recorders as the 2424
contains triple ADAT optical I/O's for compatibility with both the HD and the ADAT!
In addition, the 2424 cannot use Ether cards,which the HD is capable of!

 

[shredfit]

I would first consider the fostex machine's converters...

I bet they would not come close to the quality of the HD24

Also, the fostex machine (when recording multipule tracks)... will shut down "so to speak" while the hard drive compiles the data.

If your recording yourself this may not be a big issue... but don't think you can do a punch in, hit stop, rewind and punch again very quickly with the fostex machine (the hard drive needs time at the end of each pass to compile data) This feature can be very hard to explain to a hissy female singer (your client) "sorry gals" ...through a talkback mic

then again, if you plan to record only yourself this may not bother you!

IMHO for $100 more you could have the alesis HD24 a much better "Pro" machine

Shred

of course, I own a mackie MDR lol!