<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Reuben Martin</b> <<a href="mailto:reuben.m@gmail.com">reuben.m@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I helping a friend out who wants to put together a linux / ardour setup.<br><br>However, the sound device he origionally suggested was RME's Fireface,<br>which is a no-go.<br><br>I'm having trouble finding a device with similar specs. Does anybody
<br>have any suggestions on devices that work with linux (alsa or freebob)<br>that can handle the 192k sample rate, have at least 8 analog line<br>level inputs (not concerned about preamps) and are in the same price<br>range?
<br><br>There are lots of nice units out there, but finding something that can<br>handle 192k kinda reduces the selection really quickly.</blockquote><div><br>I have spent the last year recording extensively at 96khz. There are only three real features of 96khz recording that I notice:
<br><br>1) Stereo imaging seems slightly better<br>2) Mixing it is much easier, much more headroom, I haven't used a compressor in ages<br>3) Recording low volume (environmental) sounds sounds much better.<br><br>That said, recently I moved back to recording at
44.1. <br><br>1) What you hear is what you get - if you are primarily targeting CD - many an export from 96khz to 44.1 has gone south for me.<br>2) Much less disk space used<br>3) Lots more tracks feasible<br>4) Most plugins were designed and tested at
44.1 and 48khz and sound best at those rates<br><br>So, given that my mics aren't capable of exceeding the headroom afforded by 96khz, I don't see any good reasons to go to 192khz, and I plan to only rarely and in special situations, move up to 96khz in future recordings from
44.1 or 88.2.<br> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The only others I could find that fit those factors were the Roland
<br>FA-101 (only 6 inputs when at 192k) and Apogees stuff (a bit on the<br>pricy side). So I wanted to see if anybody knew of others that I<br>didn't think of.</blockquote><div><br>So... when I decided to get up to 16 tracks on my RME-multiface I just added an 8 pre Digimax FS and connected it's ADAT output to it. The pres are very quiet and sound pretty darn good. Now I can do 12 tracks at 96khz or 16 at <=48 - but it won't do any higher than 96khz.
<br><br>So the original thought of fireface + digimax FS might be an option so long as you stayed below 96khz.<br><br>Hope this helps.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks,<br>-Reuben<br>_______________________________________________<br>Linux-audio-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org">Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user">
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