mindprint envoice

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Hoo! Just tried it out tonight - if sex was sound and came in a box, this would be it. Present, clear and attractive. It's so nice to spend money and hear the sound actually improve.
 
What is it Dobro? BTW sex does cum in a box :)

cheers
John
 
More importantly for the peanut gallery here: How much did you pay and how does it stack up against the dbx386?
 
John - it's a channel strip with a really nice pre, the largest number of EQ fine tuning knobs I've had the pleasure to have known (parametric midband), and one of the simplest, strangest compressors. And yes, as soon as I wrote that previous post, I thought about putting that line in a song:

If sex was sound and came in a box
You'd be it

I mean if S8-N can write songs to beer, I can write a song to a piece of gear, right?

drstawl - $550 Am (bought in Canada). Never having heard the 386, I can't say how the sound compares, but I'm sure the envoice could kick the 386's ass at pool.
 
Something else: it's QUIET...

Indulge me - I'm having this learning experience for idiots, that goes like this. Pay more money for quality gear, and you get a better sound - duh... Here's what I mean: I have way more control over compression putting my mics through my ART Tube Pre and my Behringer Composer Pro, yet the sound is *way* better through the Mindprint. What's going on, I thought? So a quick calculation reveals that one channel of the Behringer plus one ART pre costs about half the price of the one channel I get on the Mindprint. Okay, I get EQ on the Mindprint too, but the lesson's clear - pay more money for reliable gear and you get a better sound. In other words, drstawl, to answer your question about how the Mindprint compares to the 386, tell me how much you paid for it, and I'd be willing to hazard a guess about quality A/Bs. I think I'm becoming a sonic Marxist.

Also, the unit's bigger and weighs more than similar units. I know you shouldn't judge gear by how much it WEIGHS, but in some cases, maybe there's a connection. This principle does *not* apply to musicians, obviously. Fat guys don't necessarily play better.

Maybe I should put the Mindprint through the Behringer - quality + control. Maybe I'll invent a rounder wheel, too.
 
weighty mindprint

A 386 is not the competition, it's the 376, channel strip w/eq,comp,de/eser- a fatty w/ alot of candy colored lights.
 
Yeah- the 386 isn't directly comparable in that it trades away the EQ/compressor section for nice digital converters. But I'm just talking about comparing the pre section. I got two channels of really nice tube pre in the 386 for $450. And the converters will do 16/20/24 bit and 44.1/48/88.2/96KHz through both AES/EBU or coaxial S/PDIF connectors.
 
That's $225 a channel then, half the price of the envoice (which sports EQ and compression in addition to the pre). I reckon the dbx sounds just as good or better, then (although all that tasty A/D conversion capability on your unit is a big cost factor). And for your synth recordings, you don't need EQ and compression for tracking, right? You're smiling.
 
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I could've sworn that the Envoice had converters on it too.

I originally saw a demo of the envoice during a Cubase demo a couple years ago. I was really impressed as was everybody else in the audience.

I'll have to check on that, but I'm sure the Envoice has a digital converter on it.
 
I've owned a Mindprint Envoice with the optional Di-Mod (S/PDIF in-out) for several months now.
It's a great unit. I can't think of one bad thing to say about it, it's just plain awesome.
The Envoice makes everything sound soooo warm... without sacrificing clarity and detail. It's extremely versatile, as dobro said... with lots of goodies to play with.
The Envoice is definitely a "steal" for the price.

http://www.mindprint.com
 
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