I am deciding would i need this

[spektor]

Hi all again its me your fellow slut i am looking for a a thing that won't breat my pocket cause this is for my home studio. I use a sure sm7 and a tampa for my preamp. and a Roland vm 7200 for my mixer. using adats lightpipe 24 in and out.
To my Rme hammerfall and Nuendo 3.


I love this mixer cause i like the eq on it and its mixing buss. Anyway i need better converters cause they just sound ugly. But i only record one thing at a time. My pod gutairs and so on,

I was talking to Vintage king and he said sorry forgot his name, the best thing for me to get is a Neve dpd that way great converters and then i can just run
my mixes through the 2 preamps.

And wound not be mixing in the box he says so much and also a lavry da-10 for my da. I would run this al throguh aes/ebu. i have in my mixer.

If i get this will i be able to use its clock? Sure it will sound better this my roland clock.

this will be around $4300 is it worth it. any other alternitives

[TEMAS]

The advice for Vintage King is OK.

If you only record 1 track at a time (mono or stereo), then yes, you need to concerntrate on making that signal path as good as possible. Follow these steps in this order.

1. Make sure the room that you are recording in has good acoustics. A bad room will make all your recordings sound sh*t.

2. Buy a good Mic. Even better buy 2, then you can record in stereo.

3. Buy a good stereo pre-amp, e.g: Great River MP-2NV, Phoenix DRS-2. You can use this to record your Mic signals and keyboard signals.

4. Buy a good stereo A/D & D/A converter.

If I were you I would record your 2-track mix DIGITALLY from the Roland to Neundo, otherwise you have to D/A via the crappy Roland converters then A/D to Nuendo.

[spektor]

Thx for the reply just i wonder with the dpd lets say i buy it i connected it to my roland through aes then make it my master from aes instead of the roland?
anyway to moniter through it? or do i get the larvy da-10 and moniter throguh that? also. I have 24 in and out light pipe. I allways thought that spreading the tracks aross a hardware mixer is better is it?

[spektor]

and if i run the mix through the mix pre it should inprove the sound.

[TEMAS]

The Roland Mixer you have is digital yes?

If you take 24 digital signals from Neundo, via you RME ADAT outputs, into your Roland digital mixer - you are still mixing digitally. People may disagree with me, but digital mixing is digital mixing; whether it is done in Neundo, Logic, Mackie D8B, VM7200, whatever - it is digital mixing. If you like the sound of your VM7200 eq - great - use it - but there's no reason why your mix will sound any different in the VM7200 than it would in Nuendo or an O2R or DXB.

When you are ready to record your 2-track mix - if you want to send it through your dpd or Great River or Phoenix to give it 'warmth' then make sure you use a VERY GOOD D-A converter before going to the pre-amp, otherwise there is no point.