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Old 9th December 2007   #310
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One gripe I have to say about this post is that imo, distorted guitars suffer worse than anything else when going straight to disk. I know some will disagree, but anyhoo, it would have been nice to have some distorted guitar track(s) to listen to and make comparisons.
The ONLY reason I would buy this unit would be if it helped with the smearing, artificial crap that plays back after I record a medium-high gain to high-gain guitar track. Even backing down the gain and leaving lots of headroom in PT, my digi 192 converter just seems to turn my guitar tracks into mp3 files instantly. All other instruments I'm happy with the 192.
Two questions for you or someone at Waves Dist.:
-Any chance of posting a couple clips of some distorted guitars done with the Burl and at least one other higher-end converter like a Lavry etc?
-The claims made at the Burl website basically state that this is the end all of converters. There are converters that cost triple what the Burl does. Has this thing ever even been a/b'd with something like the PRism Dream and the likes of others in that range?
If it holds it's own with those ones, then $3000 is a great deal. If it doesn't, some of the claims at the site should be a little more humble imo.
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