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thedude400
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Ok. I have an aardvark q10 with 8 trs line outs and am buying a Mackie 24VLZ pro mixer either 4 or 8 bus. I want to buy 2 more aardvarks and D/A sum 24 tracks from the aardvarks into the board for mixdown. Then I wanna sum the final mix A/D out of 2 channels back into the aardvark for mastering.
This should work just fine I believe. I've heard the aardvark has some reasonable converters as does the mackie. I know aardvark has gone under but their soundcards are inexpensive and seem to be reasonable quality (despite the lack of tech support and available parts repair). I should be able to get 2 more cards for around 700 bucks on ebay. But before I do this I wouldn't mind hearing some feedback and asking a couple quick questions.
First off, has any one done this before with aardvarks and with success?
Secondly , are there any other courses of action to achieve 24 tracks of analog from a PC without buying 2 more soundcards?
and lastly, when I connect the 24 cables from the aardvark outs to the mackie ins, is it a good idea to keep the connections TRS(aardvark out) to
TRS (mackie in) or should I connect trs(aardvark out) to XLR (mackie in). How will these different connections differ in sound quality if at all?
This should work just fine I believe. I've heard the aardvark has some reasonable converters as does the mackie. I know aardvark has gone under but their soundcards are inexpensive and seem to be reasonable quality (despite the lack of tech support and available parts repair). I should be able to get 2 more cards for around 700 bucks on ebay. But before I do this I wouldn't mind hearing some feedback and asking a couple quick questions.
First off, has any one done this before with aardvarks and with success?
Secondly , are there any other courses of action to achieve 24 tracks of analog from a PC without buying 2 more soundcards?
and lastly, when I connect the 24 cables from the aardvark outs to the mackie ins, is it a good idea to keep the connections TRS(aardvark out) to
TRS (mackie in) or should I connect trs(aardvark out) to XLR (mackie in). How will these different connections differ in sound quality if at all?