best thing you can do for your studio on the budget is RME Digiface USB and 4 motus 828mk2s and you have 32inputs with RME drivers for around $1000 (rme from Thomann- Motus Ebay/reverb?) RME/Motu configuration requires a bit knowledge but once you set this up you're golden
Ima look into that.. I was gonna mention the old school RME fireface 800 as a great sounding vintage interface choice..But its kinda too old now.. It sounds good but it'll probably crash your computer Lol.
YUP, this lil "hack" has gotten me through the years when I've been broke and needing multichannel. I've been rocking the RME Babyface + 1998 Alesis ADAT XT (Blackface) via optical to get 10 great input channels. It's crazy but even though it's only 16-bit resolution, and has no (and needs no) gain/volume control, I can't hear how the Alesis' channels sound inferior to my RME channels. I bought the ADAT for $40 because it has a broken tape mechanism. It's a heavy brick to lug every time I move, but Alesis clearly did some masterful engineering of the circuitry behind these (RCA unbalanced) inputs; I've looked into buying the $56 ELCO cable that'd give me 8 balanced XLR inputs on a snake, but I'm not having any issues that would seem to necessitate that. I did this in like 2015 upon reading that in the early Pro Tools days big producers didn't like the sound of the input conversion so they hooked up their ADATs. I meant to get a 24-bit model, and they do exist, but this one works great.
Dude, a I use the Evo 16 which has two pairs of ADAT and I link it to two bored brain Optx modular interfaces and an expert sleepers Es-8 ...you can even get away with daisy chaining the ADATs if you set the same sample rate on each unit. 16-24 channels of fiber-optic modular. ❤
Ok so right now i run my 8outs from my 5000 to a studiolive 16 mixer then out to my antelope audio discrete 8. An ADAT would definitely beef up my sound though. I figured with the compressor and eq in the mixer along with it's limiter i could make fine adjustments then run it through the interface and track it out from there. antelope audio has some really great converters.
I have a thunderbolt Apollo twin that sounds good but only two inputs. I’m thinking about finding a pre with 8 inputs and use the adat from Apollo. I need the extra 8 inputs because I like utilizing the 8 outputs on my MPC X. By the way great video as always
I have read in some Yamaha documentation that they recommend using a word clock with ADAT, but it's probably more of an issue if you're combining multiple ADAT heads together. I also see Tascam's TDIF and multichannel AES/EBU, but they seem a lot less popular than ADAT. so much frankensteining possible with all these bits and bobs... I bet that apogee AD8000 can be plugged into an RME digiface and still sound pretty damn good. :)
Yep that Apogee will still sound amazing!..Yeah they do recommend a good clock if your combining 3 or more digital sources together..With 2 you should be good.
i got the octopre as an add on to my steinberg ur824… the yellow button adds the saturation on those units….good for tracking out from my mpc 1000, yamaha motif classic and the korg electribe mx ……. only problem is the DAW (studio one)clock never tracks in sync and still have to move your audio tracks to line up. my old setup was sonar 8.5 producer edition… on windows..i wish they would bring that back but for Mac… also sucks on the MPC 1000 when you track out using the 4 outputs , internal effects get bypassed…..they need to make a modern day version of the Nico or Meco i forgot what it was called i saw your video on it. something that is basically a computer with everything you need and nothing else so all your processing power and storage is for music and with all the mixer and automation control built into one but they wont make as much money if the do that. the best thing they did with the new MPCs recently was make it possible to track out 8 separate tracks over the usb with that protocol compliant thing or whatever its called. they should make an OS for all the MPCs that will enable them to tracks out separate tracks and channels over one usb cord. its sad that JJ even ever had to be created :just goes to show you how little the manufacturer cares about the customer.
