On Sat, December 22, 2012 1:16 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 13:00 -0800, Len Ovens wrote:
I also have a tube pre made by ART that has more
control.
When I was a friend of Dirk Brauner and I worked for his manufactory (we
are from the same school, played in the same bands, before he falls out
with our clique), we recommended the elCheapo ART tube devices. They are
used by professional studios, in combination with the VM1. At least the
old ART tube thingy, I guess it's from the 90s, isn't a toy, it's a very
good pre amp.
Mine is an ART USBDualTubePre. I got it as a USB IF for my netbook. but it
has s/pdif out at 24bit that I pump into my D66 (the USB is only 16bit).
It sounds nicer than the Mackie preamps. I run as a hobby so things are
low end. The mic that goes with it is an AT2020. It sounds way better than
any of my dynamics, but I would guess it would hardly be called "pro". So
I have 6 inputs, but the reality is that I would likely never use them
all. Most of the time one input is enough... If I am recording an external
synth it might be two. At one time, when I was using 8track tape, I would
sync off of track 8 to a qx5 (sequencer) and mix synths and drums live.
Now it seems CPU power is cheaper than more inputs and the softsynths are
pretty nice. I still like the DX7 keyboard though. It feels nice to me,
but then I am not a piano player :)
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Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net