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Originally Posted by Big 3rd Hey Tony, first off...I'm not going to get into a heated battle with you and your experience like that Divine cat  but rather, I've got a question for you. When tracking synths and the like, I run them through the regular mic xlr inputs in my 1073dpd(which is wonderful I might add). Does it make a difference whether the signal be ran through the DIs or the mic inputs? Are xlr inputs only for mics/vocals?
Maybe you might be right, but you still have to admit that great conversion makes for an easier fight at the mixing stage, as far as making things fit and making your sound stage deeper and wider. It's funny, I've heard several say that the converters in the 002 were fine. I don't know, maybe I'm still a young grasshopper at engineering. When introduced to the importance of good conversion, everything just fell into place for me. |
Hmmm.... So you connect your keyboards directly to the XLR mic in's on the 1073dpd, huh?
I don't see a problem with doing that, I've done that in the past with 1073 modules to get the extra distortion from overloading the mic input, etc. But, I can't say that I would want to do that all the time. You might want to pick up a couple Countryman's, and run your keyboards through that on the way in. I think you might be even happier with the results. It will sound less crunched.
Converters can be important... There is room for improvement from the 002, but to get that extra 5-10% of quality you have to spend 5-10x times as much... Also, you probably won't hear as much of a difference on keyboards and synths, it's more important on vocals and accoustic instruments. I went from using the 192 I/O everyday to using the 002 rack, and didn't really see the huge loss of quality I expected. It's not as noticeable with keyboards, synths and MPC's..
More important than the converters is the front end.. You will notice a much, much bigger improvement spending $2500 on a really good two channel pre/DI, than you would spending $6k on a new converter.
