Soundcard What's The Absolute Best For Multi Track

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I Have An Emu 1616m. I Need More Uotputs Due To Enlarging My Studio. I Want The Best Sound Card For Pc. Please Give Feedback Regardless Of The Cost
 
Your Emu card has 6 outs.

My recommendation for more ins and outs is that you buy 2 Presonus Firepods which are 8 in and 8 out each and hook them up together to make a 16 in 16 out system.

The most expensive equipment is not always the best, and I've never heard a bad word about the FIrepods...

Here's a link ---

http://www.zzounds.com/a--2676837/item--PRSFIREPOD


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If you are looking at a PCI card solution I would have a look at Lynx first, and then RME, and then maybe Motu.
 
ssscientist said:
Your Emu card has 6 outs.

My recommendation for more ins and outs is that you buy 2 Presonus Firepods which are 8 in and 8 out each and hook them up together to make a 16 in 16 out system.

The most expensive equipment is not always the best, and I've never heard a bad word about the FIrepods...

Here's a link ---

http://www.zzounds.com/a--2676837/item--PRSFIREPOD


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Can you run two Firepods together. To the best of my knowledge they don't have word clock in or out. I have avoided them for this reason. I already have two Echo laylas that I would want to synch to, so I know it won't work for me.

Do the firepods sync threw the firewire?

I would personaly stick with something with word clock to keep your expansion possabilitys open.

You can get PCI interfaced echo layla 24/96's used on ebay for around $200 a piece. Not the best but awsome for the price and one of the best for under a grand.

for the best you're looking to appogee or lynx more than likely.

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lynx has slightly better converter quality than rme, but rme is more stable with easier setup. Apogee is great if youre using a mac. Any of those 3 can make world class recordings.
 
Your Emu 1616m has 16 outputs...exactly how many do you need?
 
dgatwood said:
They do, yes. I've always wondered how much jitter that must introduce. Anybody know? Probably better to use S/PDIF to slave one to the other.
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The site says spdif is disabled in any multi-unit setup, so I think your pretty stuck.

I eventually want to get a firewire interface with pre's to do remote recording but, I want it to synch to my laylas. It looks like the firepod/fp10 are out.

F.S.
 
Freudian Slip said:
The site says spdif is disabled in any multi-unit setup, so I think your pretty stuck.
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Sounds like a poorly written driver to me. There's certainly no bandwidth reason why that should be the case. (That's a little over 10% of FireWire bandwidth per unit. FireWire at 20% utilization versus 16% is really a non-issue.)

Not a surprise that their Windows drivers do stupid things, though. I'm not particularly impressed with the FIREPOD even on a Mac where I don't have to use much of their software, as the tiny bit of software they do provide is pretty crude....
 
Having had both Lynx and RME, I would say that the Lynx definately has better converters than the RME stuff. I would place the Lynx closer to Apogee than RME as far as qualty. Also, Lynx has very stable drivers and is not hard to set up at all. I completely agree though that the RME stuff is very stable:)
 
You find the Lynx Mixer easy? Most of the people I set them up for have no clue how to use it. Its so Windows 3.1 looking and acting. And the cards can be tempermental depending what they're paired up with. If you're talking pure conversion sound, I prefer an Aurora over an AD16x (and I have both here).
 
dgatwood said:
Sounds like a poorly written driver to me. There's certainly no bandwidth reason why that should be the case. (That's a little over 10% of FireWire bandwidth per unit. FireWire at 20% utilization versus 16% is really a non-issue.)

Not a surprise that their Windows drivers do stupid things, though. I'm not particularly impressed with the FIREPOD even on a Mac where I don't have to use much of their software, as the tiny bit of software they do provide is pretty crude....
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For me they sort of miss the boat with a person in my position having to spend an extra $400 or $500 dollars to get a fire studio in order to get a word clock capable unit, but then I suppose they have a good market for thier firepods buy cutting out things like wordclock and keeping the units cheap.
And guess what, you want to add 8 more channels? You have to buy another presonus product:D Ya that sounds like a pretty good plan from thier prospective;) Got to hand it to them on that one.

F.S.
 
Does Pro Tools HD|3 with an ICON board count as a soundcard?
 
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