Audio Interface rec's for recording my band - have been looking at RME's.

[bouldersoundguy]

Regarding clocking, I do a fair bit of live video, so it's handy when clocks match. My Zoom H5 Handy Recorder lines up well with my Sony Handycams for the typical hour set. By contrast, recordings made on my UI24R drift a couple of seconds over that time. It's not all that hard to fix, but it does add a step to the process. My GoPros get off from the Sonys by a few frames per hour, which takes substantially more effort to fix.

None of that matters if you're just recording audio.

 

[TalismanRich]

I've had 5 setups since I got back into recording over 20 years ago, an AW16G Yamaha that was actually underwater for almost an hour before I pulled it out, an AW1600 that replaced it, a Zoom H4n, a Zoom R-24 and a Tascam 16x08.

The Yamaha that was underwater actually recovered except for the CDROM drive. I had to suck water from under the LCD screen, rinsed out the faders with distilled water and let everything dry. A new CDROM (about $30) fixed that. The recorder still works to this day. I don't use it because it's only got 20GB storage and I have other units to use. I did dump all the tracks off to CDRWs as wav files so I could play with them. Someday I'll use it as a test bed for converting to SD card or SSD, just for fun..

Nothing else has had any issues that required customer service, except for updates to the Tascam drivers. The first V4 had several bugs, but V4.01 came out quickly and fixed it It's been running fine ever since. I think I got it about 10 years ago. I paid $300 for it back then, so that's $30 a year if you wanted to amortize it... about the cost of a dinner at a midrange restaurant.

Unless you abuse it, I think most gear will hold up unless it poorly designed.

 

[DrewPeterson7]

Unless you abuse it, I think most gear will hold up unless it poorly designed.

Not sure if this is in reply to me, but the culprit appeared to have been a power failure, as it stopped connecting after one of those.

Of course, if we were all in this for the money, well... we wouldn't be in it.

 

[TalismanRich]

Regarding clocking, I do a fair bit of live video, so it's handy when clocks match. My Zoom H5 Handy Recorder lines up well with my Sony Handycams for the typical hour set. By contrast, recordings made on my UI24R drift a couple of seconds over that time. It's not all that hard to fix, but it does add a step to the process. My GoPros get off from the Sonys by a few frames per hour, which takes substantially more effort to fix.

None of that matters if you're just recording audio.

The Zoom R24 has a known issue with the clock being off. The audio will drift relative to a video camera. The H4n doesn't have the same issue. I've recorded 4 hours of video and audio (48kHz) and I have to nudge the audio after a couple of songs. If you don't you start to notice that snare hits don't match the stick hitting the drum.

I confirmed the error in timing one night when I set up my H4n, R-24 and 16x08 and let things run about an hour. I don't remember the exact amount of drift, but the H4n and Tascams were essentially identical. The R-24 was off.