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Originally Posted by zakco  My comments were not based on the obsolescence angle. Down the road when you decide that you really do need more channels of decent A/D, you can sell the 2 channel unit and replace it with something bigger/better and keep your pres. I also am not a fan of stringing together multiple converter boxes, a couple sp/dif channels here, a couple AES channels there, toss in a lightpipe or two...  ...the patching and clocking becomes a headache, not to mention dealing with varying latencies from unit to unit....I'll take one good box with umpteen inputs anyday and i'll keep my A/D separate thank you... |
I know what you mean, but if you mostly only ever record one or two channels at a time (like a lot of home recordists do) they are a very good solution. They are also very portable; you can connect them easily to a variety of other interfaces and get good results i.e. you can go to somewhere with only a very basic set up, an M Box or similar, and have a pro level mic pre and conversion in one rack unit. Should you then later decide to go for a bigger conversion set up you can just hook the pres up as you would any other pre.