Should I sell my buddies?

[Neeps]

No not my fellow band members... my M-Audio Audiobudies....

A while back, before I found this forum, I bought 4 of them to give me 8 inputs for each of the channels on my soundcard (Terratec EWS 88 MT).

The thing is the band later acquired a Behringer UB2442 mixer for jamming live (again before I found this forum). The Behringer has 10 so called 'invisible' mic preamps built in.

Does anyone have any opinions on what what preamp will be nicer? Will the Audiobuddy, as a dedicated preamp, be substantially better than the Behringer? Are they both a complete pile of poo?

Even better, since I have both of these sitting in front of me, can anyone tell me what kind of tests I could do to decide for myself?

My thinking is that if these Audiobuddies aren't giving me anything the mixer can't do then I'd be better off loading them and buying something else...

I think I could sell the four of them for £120... I don't want to sell the mixer cos it's does a job for jamming through and recording live stuff as well (it has 8 outputs)...

For the most part though, I only record 1 or 2 channels at a time...

Cheers
Al

 

[4-Man Takedown]

Maybe you could sell them, and save a bit to get a nice two channel pre or something. Like a FMR RNP, or an Art MP Gold, or something like that.

That way you could use the mixer for recording drums or the whole band live, but you would have the nice pre for overdubs and stuff when you get down to recording something you want to use to represent the band permenantly.

Plus you could use the nice pre for vocals and maybe the lead guitar through your mixer during practice to get some higher quality from those recordings as well.

This is just an idea. What I would do, is test them out... and if you like them less than the behringher board sell them for something you need.

 

[OneRoomStudios]

Or you could sell the buddies and the mixer and get a mixer with better pre's. I would look at soundcraft, or if you're patient, the forthcoming Toft board seems promising. That way you'd have a good mixer for live and for recording. Anything else would be compromising one or the other....


Just MHO,

-Peter

 

[Warhead]

If the Audio Buddy preamps sound fine for what you're doing, don't get rid of them. I don't think you'll experience the huge difference in sound you want without spending a little money.

War