My projected recording setup

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Hello, new to recording, but studying up fast. I recently bought a dp-008ex for recording different parts of a brass quartet(with me playing the parts), and the plan is to use the rca jacks to send the audio into an old g4 running OS 9 and Digidesign Audiomedia 3 PCI card and Digidesign Sound Designer 2 software is already on the G4. Also has digital performer 3. Then from there, trim it up a bit and enjoy. I will be using the built in mics for now, but plan to get a CR-14. The phantom power provided should be fine for that, right? Any thoughts on this?

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The CR-14 appears to be a passive ribbon mic. Doesn't need phantom and while it doesn't need it, should be careful about inadvertently applying phantom to a ribbon. It may be questionable whether the preamps in the DP-008ex have enough gain for a ribbon mic without extra help of another preamp (possibly a Cloudlifter or FetHead?).

Can't the DP-008ex export the audio as a wav file via USB or transfer from the SD card directly with a card reader, so as to avoid going through the soundcard?
 
arcaxis said:
The CR-14 appears to be a passive ribbon mic. Doesn't need phantom and while it doesn't need it, should be careful about inadvertently applying phantom to a ribbon. It may be questionable whether the preamps in the DP-008ex have enough gain for a ribbon mic without extra help of another preamp (possibly a Cloudlifter or FetHead?).

Can't the DP-008ex export the audio as a wav file via USB or transfer from the SD card directly with a card reader, so as to avoid going through the soundcard?
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The concern I have is that there is apparently conversion from a proprietary format into wave, which I fear may reduce quality. As far as a preamp goes, I can't really spend much more than I have so far. Wife gave me a pass but... Any suggestions on something basic but effective as far as the preamp goes? I got the ex because it had mic input ports. Thanks for the response!
 
AFAICT the DP-006EX records as .wav anyway so there will be no loss of quality in saving to SD card.
The recorder can also transfer data via USB 2.0 and it seems to be limited to 16bit 44.1kHz? Not that that is a bad thing, 24 bits is nice to have for the "legroom" but not essential, "proper" 16bit CDs are very acceptable!

The 008's preamps might be good enough for a ribbon on brass?

Dave.
 
ecc83 said:
The 008's preamps might be good enough for a ribbon on brass?

Dave.
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Yeah, you're likely right with brass and the SPL's it'll push :) My own ribbon mic likes a FetHead behind it with vocals which aren't close in loudness to what brass would be.
 
Well, I recorded this morning, and I hit a snag. I was using the dp-008ex, and left the reverb setting as it was, about 50%. I really liked the recording as I heard it before the export to wav. However, the exported wav didn't bring the reverb with it. It was a nice recording without it, but I would really like to keep the effect when I export. I just expected that since I recorded the track and heard the reverb while monitoring, and heard the effect while playing the track that it was part of the track. Sure, I could add the effect with the software on the mac, but I shouldn't have to. Any ideas out there?
 
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