a/d converters not to burn my pocket

[spektor]

I use a digital mixer a Roland vm7c100 and i dont like the converters love the mixers sound and mixing bus. I would like new converters to record gutairs, it does have a aes,adat, and spdif. What would be nice converters.

My sound card is a Rme 9652 hammerfall. And just want nice converters, thought of CardDeluxe
i hard where good. ONly going to use converters but i would like the best in a way of sound not price thx.

[spektor]

2 input only

[streetbeats]

Benchmark ADC1

[Albert]

Take a look at the Universal Audio 2192. Great sound, I'm very happy with mine.

[deuc647]

Rosetta 200, have mine hooked up to a RME 9636, only thing i want now is the Big Ben, for 1750, u cant to wrong.

[warhead]

Lucid = great sound, great meters, and it's nice to have volume control pots on the face. Awesome value.

War

[AdamJay]

Spektor, what is your budget limitation?

[Snatchman]

He he he....! Spektor hasn't replied. He's probably done fainted at those "converters to not burn the pocket choices" in Low-End...!.... ,

[thearnicasync]

Ditto on the lucids! I just got an AD and DA...I've only really tested the AD and it's very, very good...obviously much better than the motu 828mkII, but also much better than the original apogee 48k I had before. Way better.

kelly

[hourglass]

Originally Posted by spektor

2 input only

Try to find a used Apogee Rosetta AD.

It's TWO CHANNELS of AD conversion -- 24-bit, does 44.1 and 48kHz stock with an optional upgrade to 96k ($279 from Apogee)...

A couple of them went for $500 or so on ebay last week. I picked up a shiny-new looking one for $643 shipped... I managed to control my anticipation long enough to reconfigure my whole setup then set about tracking some vocals through it last night.

I've been the absolute king of "low-end" when it comes to converters for way too long now. I got a Sek'd (Marian) ARC-88 card in '98 or '99 (16-bit... kinda saggy all around) then stepped up to MOTU 24-bit deals just a few years ago. The 24-bit makes a huge difference.

However - the Apogee simply slays everything else I've used as far as overall sound -- save for my brother-in-law's Mytek 8x96 AD...

But - in the topping the 8x96 department -- I can't believe I ever tried to track w/o the soft limit feature - especially on vocals. The only other times it's been this easy to get great sounding takes with good level was when I had access to a Tube Tech CL1-B. That alone is well more expensive than the Rosetta AD for one channel of compression only.

Now, when I'm tracking my wife's string ensemble gigs, I'd probably rather have the cleaner translation of the Mytek. But for the pop/rock stuff I do for myself, the Rosetta AD is the perfect solution.

ryan

[ozraves]

I'd second the Lucid. I'd also recommend the Kurzweil Rumour.

[spektor]

sorry i have not replyed been busy. anyway thx for the advice i was thinking and saving money to buy a neve dpd supposed to have great converters and the neve sound. PLus if i get the larvy a/d converters i have run my mix through it. dont know yet.

[flail19]

Originally Posted by spektor

saving money to buy a neve dpd.

I thought that this was low end theory? The dpd is nice, but + $3,000 USD!

[digibird]

Get the analog expansion card for the RME 9652:

http://www.rme-audio.com/english/aeb/index.htm

[Mitch Manger]

Sorry to revive an old thread...

So I want to get a Card with four analog ins. Going for $200-400 range. This is mainly for my home theater system, so that I can play my wav files out through my Yamaha NS-1000s via my Sansui receiver.

The three best options appear to be:

RME 9652 with AEB4-O ($400 used)
DAL CardDeluxe ($330 new)
E-MU 1212M ($200 new)

I probably won't be getting the RME because I most likely won't be using its features and it is two times the price of the E-MU and $. But between the CardDeluxe and 1212m, I'm divided because the E-MU packs in so many other features. And though I probably won't use those features (like ADAT, etc) soon, they're included in a package that is $130 cheaper than the CardDeluxe. However, the E-MUs software looks like a piece of junk, though only in the GUI-sense.

Which would you guys go for? Thanks!

[Acoustic Cloud]

Unless they have finally fixed it, no Emu if you are planning to use raid-0 drives. Even though newer pc's dont benefit from the raid config, there are probably some still using it with older pc's.

adda is pretty stellar though, for that price.

[Mitch Manger]

thanks. is there anyone who has a/b-ed the carddeluxe and the e-mu, or heard them at different times? I would like to know whether the extra $150 is worth it for the CardDeluxe....

[88fingerz]

Kurzweil Rumour....$450.00 US

GREAT SOUND! A few 'verbs thrown in too!