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Hey folks,
I've been browsing this forum quite a bit, and finally have a question I'd love to post to get some feedback. I've posted in a few other forums and gotten a variety of answers, so figure it's best to do my due diligence before buying anything else.
So, as far as what I'm DOING with the equipment this is mainly for live podcasting/recorded podcast/voiceover stuff, as a background. Some of the things I do I get as many takes as I want, and some is live out to ustream/justin.tv/whathave you, so my setup is best suited for sort of a live/studio hybrid. This is a setup I tend to haul places now and again, to do remote things, so the ability to at least keep some of it contained in a little half-depth 4U rack is great.
Currently I have the following filling the rack:
2 x dbx 286a
Furman line conditioner
MOTU Ultralite Mk3 (firewire version)
All of this is running into my MacBookPro (8gb/2.2ghz i7/250gb SSD/500GB FW project drive) running Logic 9.whatever.
My current dilemma is this, I'm getting to the point for various situations that I'm needing more than 2 or 3 mics, and with my current setup I can run the two onboard preamps from the MOTU, and the 2 dbx units. But I'm also starting to want to get 4 channels that sound more or less the same, so I'm looking at options at decent quality preamps that still have the ability to be relatively mobile. I'm looking at pairing up whatever I end up getting with the dbx 1046 to keep along the lines of 'all the channels sounding the same'.
I started out looking at the RME QuadMic because of the form factor (4 preamps in a 1U half-width), but people are telling me that there really ARE no good 4 channel preamps that fit as such. That RME makes good interfaces but aren't really known for their preamps.
So in looking at other options, I've been suggested the following, and was curious what people thought:
2 x FMR's 'rnp' (for a total of 4 preamps)
dbx 1046
MOTU Ultralite Mk3
or
Focusrite ISA 428 II
dbx 1046
MOTU Ultralite Mk3
I'm just curious if these are the 'cheapest I can go' and still have a decent upgrade.
I've also been told that perhaps the dbx are REALLY more for a livesound rather than a studio setting, and I'm running compression both pre-and-post recording, but for a lot of situations I really like the compression before the DA.
Any thoughts or feedback would be great, thanks!
Andy
I've been browsing this forum quite a bit, and finally have a question I'd love to post to get some feedback. I've posted in a few other forums and gotten a variety of answers, so figure it's best to do my due diligence before buying anything else.
So, as far as what I'm DOING with the equipment this is mainly for live podcasting/recorded podcast/voiceover stuff, as a background. Some of the things I do I get as many takes as I want, and some is live out to ustream/justin.tv/whathave you, so my setup is best suited for sort of a live/studio hybrid. This is a setup I tend to haul places now and again, to do remote things, so the ability to at least keep some of it contained in a little half-depth 4U rack is great.
Currently I have the following filling the rack:
2 x dbx 286a
Furman line conditioner
MOTU Ultralite Mk3 (firewire version)
All of this is running into my MacBookPro (8gb/2.2ghz i7/250gb SSD/500GB FW project drive) running Logic 9.whatever.
My current dilemma is this, I'm getting to the point for various situations that I'm needing more than 2 or 3 mics, and with my current setup I can run the two onboard preamps from the MOTU, and the 2 dbx units. But I'm also starting to want to get 4 channels that sound more or less the same, so I'm looking at options at decent quality preamps that still have the ability to be relatively mobile. I'm looking at pairing up whatever I end up getting with the dbx 1046 to keep along the lines of 'all the channels sounding the same'.
I started out looking at the RME QuadMic because of the form factor (4 preamps in a 1U half-width), but people are telling me that there really ARE no good 4 channel preamps that fit as such. That RME makes good interfaces but aren't really known for their preamps.
So in looking at other options, I've been suggested the following, and was curious what people thought:
2 x FMR's 'rnp' (for a total of 4 preamps)
dbx 1046
MOTU Ultralite Mk3
or
Focusrite ISA 428 II
dbx 1046
MOTU Ultralite Mk3
I'm just curious if these are the 'cheapest I can go' and still have a decent upgrade.
I've also been told that perhaps the dbx are REALLY more for a livesound rather than a studio setting, and I'm running compression both pre-and-post recording, but for a lot of situations I really like the compression before the DA.
Any thoughts or feedback would be great, thanks!
Andy