Lavry and Motu, or something else?

[Seamus TM]

Originally Posted by Drywsef

Hey all, I'm curious as to your take on this.
My conversion setup is a 2 ch Lavry Blue AD/DA with Msync Clock and a MOTU HD192. I am clocking to the Lavry, using its 2 ch AD for most tracks (overheads on drums), and the DA for monitoring. The HD192 is for all other drum tracks and DI guitar when I mic guitar cabs with 2 mics. I sometimes reamp if needed. I am forced to use the HD192 for inserts when I need additional hardware compression, because I am monitorying through the lavry DA. This is usually only needed for Kick, Snare, and sometimes vocals.

My question is whether I would be better off selling both converters and going with 1 unit of equivalent cost to both of my current units. This may help with the conversion integrity of my inserts and simplify my setup. I am just worried that most of my drums and guitar DIs (when I even use them) will step forward a bit while everything else will take a step back sonically. I would buy more channels of lavry conversion, but the HD192 will only accept 2ch AD/DA of external conversion, thus the dilema.

I'm grateful for opinions! Thanks!

That's exactly what we used to use, except we had a 2408mk3, also, but we mostly just used the 2408 D/A for cue sends and shaker/hand claps during the mix.
We had Black Lion modify the HD192.
I never had any complaints after that.
Before the mod, they were a little murky, but they probably would have been fine, honestly.

We use Lynx Aurora, now, but since we are in a totally different place with all different gear, it's impossible to say if they are much better than the MOTU was.

$0.02

[Drywsef]

Seamus, did you get the analog stage mod or the signature mod?

[Seamus TM]

Originally Posted by Drywsef

Seamus, did you get the analog stage mod or the signature mod?

Analog.

[NathanEldred]

Not sure if 8 in/8 out is enough for you, but the Mytek 8x192 sounds amazing (to my ears more clear in the mids than the Lavry with a more articulate top end).

[Drywsef]

Nathan,
I was advised before to check out the mytek. It seems like a good option. Selling my motu system and lavry would probably give me around $3k, with which I could buy one of those, but the 8 in limitation would be a little scary... so I might have to wait. My budget seems to say Lynx, but I am wary of going that direction due to a couple of trustworthy opinions of dissent.

[KRStudio]

For 3k you can get into SSL converters.

[Bill@WelcomeHome]

No shortage of options, depending upon what you want. RME would be my choice of cards, (I'm using the HDSPe AES, 16 channels, but they have a pile of options) Lynx a close second. Lots of converter options, again I'm using Mytek, but Lynx , Lavry, etc all available, all viable.