Cheap Mic Pre while saving for good one......................

[warble]

Let me put it this way: If you record through modelling digital algorithms, you can never bring the track back to what it was. Record clean through quality gear and you will not be sorry next year when that supertoy doesn't seem so hot anymore, and you have to re-record everything.

I'd say this is a better way to put it. I certainly agree about getting clean tracks in as well.

 

[In Tune Audio]

Back to your original question of cheap pre while saving.

I'd look at the RNP or any Joe Meek stuff (preferably the older stuff). Bang for the buck they are very good, and even after you upgrade you'll probably want to keep them cause you'd still find use for them.

 

[darrin_h2000]

I'd say this is a better way to put it. I certainly agree about getting clean tracks in as well.

You do have that choice with the UX2...Its just that with all it has onboard you wont want to do that...try it out if you can...modeling has come a long way in the last few years.

Im suprised...finally a peice that is offering it all to us at 200 bucks...and all of a sudden you guys turn up your noses without using it.

 

[Robert D]

You do have that choice with the UX2...Its just that with all it has onboard you wont want to do that...try it out if you can...modeling has come a long way in the last few years.

Im suprised...finally a peice that is offering it all to us at 200 bucks...and all of a sudden you guys turn up your noses without using it.

Agreed that modelling has come a long way in the last couple of years. What hasn't is how much it costs to manufacture quality hardware, and that part of it isn't modelled. Again, I haven't heard it, so I'm not putting it down. Hell, I have a long history of championing good cheap gear that the gear sluts turn their nose up at. But real transparrancy can't be done in software, it's where the software leaves the signal alone, and the hardware is of sufficiant quality to be a "wire with gain".