Got an ASP880 over the holidays, can't wait to use it on my next drum session. Great piece of gear from what I've determined so far and that price/feature ratio is pretty great.
My setup for the past year or so has been the ID44 and ASP800. Having two light pipes on the ID44 allows 12 channels of 96k audio. That's something important that consumers should know and it isn't always real clear with a lot of these products that allow hi res recording.
12 channels is the bare minimum for drums. It's only enough if you don't need to mic up the Ride and don't wanna do MS stereo, or having only 2 Toms. It'll leave you with compromises anyway. I'd strongly suggest getting 2 ASP880.
Dude I got myself Behringer BA 19A mic, which is an obviously a copy of Beta91... But maaan, it is such a good deal for 60$. You seriously have to check it out.
Great content Miami, right now I'm finding this kind of subject to be a jungle of often conflicting information and opinions. Right now I'm recording using an Allen & Heath 16:4 mixmaster board into an older presonus interface that I figure needs an upgrade, but I'm getting mixed messages as to whether or not that is truly necessary. I'm curious about your opinion on A&H preamps and how much older A/D converters might be hurting the quality of my recordings.
Allen and Heath gets the job done for live gigs, but for in studio use I wouldn’t honestly be using those preamps. Converters age doesn’t matter. Lynx and apogee converters from 20 years ago still sound amazing!
As much as I'd love to get something like this... If I spent that much money on a hobby my wife would flip. Probs gonna just be the umc + Ada for me for the foreseeable future. Still a good watch, thanks mate.
Yup. Lowest you could get away with is 1500 bucks which is still a lot for a hobby. Audient falls right into the “not to expensive but can still use it with world class gear” category. For a hobby you can get by the focusrite entry line stuff -Miami
There is a channel here in youtube named Aiden Kenway, and he talks about how trap hit songs beats were made, and i think that this is f* awesome, i would really like to see some content like that at the rock/metal comunity, talking about how legendary tracks were made, or how get that iconic linkin park sound :) very nice video btw
The ASP 880 is fine but it has some issues with power that are questionable. Personally I would say go with the Behringer ADA8200 because they sound decent and they last very long.
@@joeymusic That's true, I only prefer the Behringer because I've heard of the power issues with the 880 and I've never had that issue with the ADA8200.
I had the opposite experience. My behringer crapped out, I upgraded to the Audient and ill never go back. The Audient is simply next level. I had a chance to A/B them before i got rid of the behringer and the differences in clarity and noise floor were insanely noticeable
Eh, it makes a ton of sense for the live scenario, but I wouldn’t use of these in the studio. I’d go focusrite at that point if i was tryna get he cheapest thing (not saying you’re trying to that) -Miami
If you need 16 inputs, the XR18 X Air is great! I had one for years and it was wonderful! The preamps are clean as long as you don't have to crank the gain past +40db. Which is only a problem if you're using a SM7B or very quiet ribbon mics for your rooms.
There's no reason why you can't use that in the studio. However, if you're willing to spend an extra buck, definitely go for the MR18. The preamps are way better.
guys i got a random question, why are the audient interfaces so popular in metal/hardcore production? i see them here all the time but in any other genre its always either focusrite for budget or apollo for the uad plugins and dsp processors
I want to say it’s probably just their awareness, and if I had to guess their marketing person is prob a metal head or was at some point. This makes them reach out to metal people for reviews (I was not asked to do this) which is then showed to a metal audience -Miami
The Mark ii lineup of the other interfaces we're designed to bring them up to the feature set and USB C compatibility of the ID44. So yeah, I don't see that changing soon.
I was never asked to make this video by audient fam. I’m sure they appreciate it tho. It’s what I used to get my studio off the ground and I always recommend what I use. -Miami
@@joeymusic That’s fair enough dude! I think it would’ve been worth including some different options surrounding those pieces though, there are so many different options, and this video comes across as this being the definitive choice, where as there are lots of different options people could use. Thanks for the response clearing up the advertising thing
