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Jay,
Let me try to return the favor since you've dealt me some decent info in the past...
Our main room is running on a PC with a MOTU 324 card in it.
Hanging off the 324 is a MOTU 1224 and a MOTU 2408.
From day 1, we've had ZERO problems with this set up.
From what I've read, I certainly didn't expect it to be that way, cuz everybody says how much MOTU (especially the 324) stuff is skoogy on PC.
Until yesterday we were dealing with 16 in and 16 out -- that's when we decided to drop the $175 and get a Behringer ADA-8000 just to see what it would do.
For that kind of money it might as well be free is the way I went into it.
We wired up a few channels on the Behringer and did a tone test - that being we sent 1K tones out of the DAW thru three random channels on the board - one for each converter.
All the tones from all three converters sounded just like tones -- we used these tones from the software to set each console channel to the same output level, then we tossed an actual project up and did the same comparison.
We copied an object to 3 tracks. Set the output for each of those tracks to hit a different converter.
The 1224 sounded bigger on the bottom than either the 2408 or the Behringer.
To my ears, the Behringer and the 2408 sounded identical. Chad sez the Behringer might lack a bit on the bottom but has a bit MORE clarity than the 2408.
The only snag we ran into was when we put two converters up against each other at the same time - the 1224 and the 2408 summed and boosted the signal. Either MOTU with the Behringer sounded perfectly out of phase.
So we checked our wiring. On both ends.
Tried another channel.
Still sounded out of phase.
So we flipped the phase on the DAW output going to the Behringer.
Perfect.
Our guess is that the Behringer is being a bit slower than the MOTU since it's converting then sending down lightpipe to the MOTU... maybe somebody designed it to end up perfectly out of phase, maybe it's just a happy accident.
Anyhow, we went back and wired all the Behringer outputs to be out of phase from what the manual sez. Since we're not using the inputs, I don't anticipate any problems.
As for your 828 - I'm actually planning to set one up in the B-Studio today and test it with the Behringer converters as well.
I'll report back on that later.
ryan
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