cavedog101
Well-known member
Like any two pieces of gear, until you hear them side by side and use them in tandem for a length of time, comparing one to the other is simply hot air up the chute. While I can appreciate cheap functionality as well as anyone else, saying that a basically disposable piece of gear is 'superior' in any way to something else is ludicrous. I have a couple of pieces of kit by the B word and they are quite adequate for their purpose. I have a bunch of experience mixing on provided boards and consoles for various projects, live shows, and remix repairs, and have never found these things to have nearly enough headroom or tonal control whatsoever. A couple of incidents where the sub-groups didnt work, one had a clattering noise, more than a couple had crosstalk so bad that turning up or down a channel got the one next to it to go up and down also. Another had an old beat Euro-desk (I give it credit for still passing signal after what it went through) that the tone controls in half the board worked and the other half were simply knobs without function. A good engineer can work around this stuff but my point is why has it all been 'B' products???? But, as has been said, this IS Homerecording and I personally have no problems with anyone who gets pleasure and achieves their goal of recording their music through whatever means it takes to get that done. Thats what we all strive for and kudos to those that can and do!
Budget contraints certainly do create opportunities for manufacturers to use up the vast supply of sub-quality electric components and parts, assemble them into pirated PC layouts, put lots of seemingly functional features in a piece of kit and call it wonderful. Its easy to sell that to people who have that yearning itch. Recording is a need and the deeper in you get the more you want to do it.
And one thing that becomes clearer every year I'm in this, the fervor of ones opinions and the juice for proving ones quality of judgement in purchasing things to enable this recording habit have not diminished even a bit.
Real comparisons can only be made in real time and in a real situation. But I'll guarantee that putting a tried and true 'B' product next to something with real build quality and design will cause the inevitable headslap...."Now I see....." It wont take long either.
Budget contraints certainly do create opportunities for manufacturers to use up the vast supply of sub-quality electric components and parts, assemble them into pirated PC layouts, put lots of seemingly functional features in a piece of kit and call it wonderful. Its easy to sell that to people who have that yearning itch. Recording is a need and the deeper in you get the more you want to do it.
And one thing that becomes clearer every year I'm in this, the fervor of ones opinions and the juice for proving ones quality of judgement in purchasing things to enable this recording habit have not diminished even a bit.
Real comparisons can only be made in real time and in a real situation. But I'll guarantee that putting a tried and true 'B' product next to something with real build quality and design will cause the inevitable headslap...."Now I see....." It wont take long either.
