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Originally Posted by mdjice  You Definitely need better converters. The M Box is NOT a pro Audio piece and it will bring everything else down in your chain by being your weakest link.
You could have a u47 into a Neve, pluging it into a M box would mean the same thing as using a ferrari on a highway limited to 45 miles per hour.
The digi003 converters seam to be more usable. |
My piano player also has an 002, have you had any experience with those converters and deemed them "more usable"? Cause I have the option of using that most of the time.
I get what you are saying about the Neves and all that, but the real question to me is what equipment has the capability of sounding decent. I have used all the high end stuff, and I'm often not very happy with it for various reasons. I learned quickly that what really matters is the technique and performance. If I can use merely decent equipment and get the takes the way I want them, rather than use stellar equipment and not be satisfied with the way the takes are done, then thats what I want to do. I've been to a recording studio and used a Neumann through a $6K Neve pre and didn't like the sound that we got very much.
Plus, I always have a few tracks that have to be done in the high end studio, or that are MIDI, so those minimize the cumulative effect of low end converters that you mentioned.
But, as you say, the Mbox is not exactly pro audio, hence my purchase of the RNP (ok its not a Neve, but its pretty damn close to some pro stuff out there.) My problem now is that DACs are so bloody expensive. Question for anyone- would any stand alone converter be much better than the Mbox as a converter, or are you saying that it has to be an Apogee to really get pro sound?