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Mr Blues
New member
Man I brought this great peice of equipment as a added front end to my Tascam DP-01 FX .
Its a : 'Focusrite Platinum Trackmaster' It cost me £139.00 from Digital Village in East London UK.
It really does my tascam 8 track justice fattens up the sound beautifully , the Optical compressor is great and the EQ is brilliant too plus there's no hum noise, very clean sound.
Here's a direct link to the machine:
http://www.warhogsaudioshop.com/browseproducts/Focusrite-Platinum-Trackmaster.html
Plus here's a quick summery from Soundonsound magazine from 2001:
These points aside, the Trak Master is easy to set up and very sweet sounding, both on vocals and instruments. It makes recording high-quality vocals easy, but it also sounds brilliant on clean electric guitar or bass. It may not have gates, de-essers or limiters, but it provides the essentials of clean amplification, musical compression and smooth EQ in a surprisingly affordable, easy-to-use package which should be particularly attractive to those many readers who are using soundcard-based studios or hardware recorders with only line inputs. Fitting the digital output option would be a good strategy for anyone wanting to get high-quality audio into a budget soundcard that has an S/PDIF input, and though I still feel that 96kHz is irrelevant for 99 percent of all real-world users, at least it is available if you need it. In summary, the Trak Master is a welcome addition to the Platinum range, and its low UK price and high quality should endear it to a wide range of users.
Dave
Its a : 'Focusrite Platinum Trackmaster' It cost me £139.00 from Digital Village in East London UK.
It really does my tascam 8 track justice fattens up the sound beautifully , the Optical compressor is great and the EQ is brilliant too plus there's no hum noise, very clean sound.
Here's a direct link to the machine:
http://www.warhogsaudioshop.com/browseproducts/Focusrite-Platinum-Trackmaster.html
Plus here's a quick summery from Soundonsound magazine from 2001:
These points aside, the Trak Master is easy to set up and very sweet sounding, both on vocals and instruments. It makes recording high-quality vocals easy, but it also sounds brilliant on clean electric guitar or bass. It may not have gates, de-essers or limiters, but it provides the essentials of clean amplification, musical compression and smooth EQ in a surprisingly affordable, easy-to-use package which should be particularly attractive to those many readers who are using soundcard-based studios or hardware recorders with only line inputs. Fitting the digital output option would be a good strategy for anyone wanting to get high-quality audio into a budget soundcard that has an S/PDIF input, and though I still feel that 96kHz is irrelevant for 99 percent of all real-world users, at least it is available if you need it. In summary, the Trak Master is a welcome addition to the Platinum range, and its low UK price and high quality should endear it to a wide range of users.
Dave