I own both the Presonus Firebox and Firepod which are both great and have nice phantom powered pre's. They blow the doors off my old Ardvark-direct Pro who turned out to be Linux-unfriendly. Presonus's newer 8 channel product is supposed to have even better ones..... I've used the Firepod for 8 ch. tape transfer gigs (for guys like you) and it worked beautifully, with audacity even!. ;-) (32bit-float-96) When the FFADO driver comes out (formerly freebob) they will support daisy chaining Firepods so you can record 16 tracks. But it sounds like you only need a Firebox (2ch.) which is a much smaller investment. Peter On 7/17/07, Reuben Martin <reuben.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm in the middle of building a rig for live location recording. My recommendations are: - You might want a RAID array if you plan on doing live multitracking with a lot of channels. If you are just placing a pair of your own condenser mics out to pick up the PA mix then that's not as important. - Stay the hell away from USB, and be suspicious about firewire units. Use PCI, or even better PCIe interfaces. I like (and use) RME's PCI(e) based stuff. M-audio is good too. - If you're going to be using the same mics as the house mix, get a hard split and mount it on the back of your recording rig. Live locations don't always have nice snake heads with splits built into them and taking sends from a house or monitor console can introduce all kinds of problems. - Use external pre-amps and AD converters (i.e. don't try to get a sound card that does everything. they suck) - If you plan on using Linux, do your homework first on how well the hardware is supported. -Use Ardour, not Audacity Of course, all this is expensive and assumes you are doing this for production work and not just as a hobby... -Reuben On 7/17/07, Russell Button <russ@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ken! > > I'm going to have to pass. USB 1.x just isn't going to cut it for 24 > bit, 96 kHz, live location recording. As you well know, a lot of > products get built before they should because of issues like this. > Reminds me of the NeXT computer, which probably would have been great on > a 300 Mhz Pentium, but not a Motorola 68030 processor. > > Coolness, > > Russ > > Ken Restivo wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 06:45:12AM -0700, Russ Button wrote: > > > >> Loki Davison wrote: > >> > >>>> Russ Button wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I'm looking to move into using Linux as my music platform for live > >>>>> location recording. > >>>>> > >>> I'm very happy with my echo > >>> interface and know some of the nice ones can be found on ebay that use > >>> cardbus and pci if you want to use it at home too. I.e Mona. > >>> http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/Discontinued/Mona/index.php > >>> > >> Okee Doki Loki! > >> > >> I'll bet nobody's ever said that to you before... > >> > >> But another question now comes to mind. Do you use this Mona interface > >> with your Linux box? If so, do you use the Windows driver for the cardbus > >> card with ndiswrapper or something? > >> > >> > > > > I have an old M-Audio Audiophile USB for sale. Has stereo RCA connectors in and out, line in, and requires a wall-wart. It also has SPDIF in/out which I haven't tried to use. > > > > - -ken > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFGnSPQe8HF+6xeOIcRAi/QAKDANKU27Z3LAowFj5kJ/jncG5QEjACg1Mg6 > > fs06Fd85Lw+Pdld9OqnKcPU= > > =9kpG > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
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