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bobboyer
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Well, the analogue side of this temporary hybrid studio is together and I'm typing on the digital side, I just need to connect 'em. Picture of project studio in space above my office is attached;it's a combination of my own stuff and some gear donated to the University. There's my Tascam M-50, a Teac 3340S for tracking, and a variety of KEL Audio condenser mics. From the donation pile, I dug out some Klipsch Heresies for monitors, a Drawmer Quadgate, four channels of DBX 160s (not yet hooked up), and a Tube-Tech CLA-2A compressor/limiter (also not yet hooked up). Other odds-n-ends include a Tascam DA-40 RDAT and 302 dual cassette deck from the campus radio station and an old Crown amp out of our rack in the auditorium. Sounds pretty good so far, first test session is set for next weekend, so we'll see how it sounds.
I'm tracking to the Teac R2R through the Drawmer, then planning to input the four tracks into Logic Express for mixing and effects. My question involves choosing the firewire interface and I've narrowed things down to a Focusrite Sapphire (Pro 14 or Pro 24) or the Apogee Duet. While I understand the Apogee sounds better, it will require me to double the input time as it only has two channels available at one time for input whereas the Focusrite will let me do all four channels at once. So is the sound quality of the Apogee so much better that it will offset the PITA factor for transferring to digital and the added cost over the Focusrites?
Also, how well do the Focusrites play with Mac laptops?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts; hopefully some of you have heard or worked with both units.
I'm tracking to the Teac R2R through the Drawmer, then planning to input the four tracks into Logic Express for mixing and effects. My question involves choosing the firewire interface and I've narrowed things down to a Focusrite Sapphire (Pro 14 or Pro 24) or the Apogee Duet. While I understand the Apogee sounds better, it will require me to double the input time as it only has two channels available at one time for input whereas the Focusrite will let me do all four channels at once. So is the sound quality of the Apogee so much better that it will offset the PITA factor for transferring to digital and the added cost over the Focusrites?
Also, how well do the Focusrites play with Mac laptops?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts; hopefully some of you have heard or worked with both units.
