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Originally Posted by edIT
mostly hip-hop and electronic music. my day job i write jingles so that covers the full spectrum. would you say the Big Ben has improved your AD/DA conversion of your Rosetta? Do you feel you got your money's worth?
Whuddup Ed?!
Heard a track of yours at the UCLA animation prom Saturday night; nice seeing your name up there; it sounded great!
Okay, to business:
Per a conversation I had with Max at Apogee a little over a year ago, the Big Ben on the Rosetta 800 pretty much gets you to AD/DA16x land. I don't own a Big Ben (yet), but I've rented one when I need it and clocked my Rosetta 800, DA-16, and RME card to it, and it's a subtle but worthwhile improvement, most noticeable I thought in imaging. Almost as worthwhile--if not even more--is the increased stability and control across all the WC enabled devices in your studio. It's such a pleasure to run master sync this way instead of always having to reset things and worry about errors, which I've sometimes gotten when running things like the PCM91 (no WC in) into the Apogee via AES into the RME/computer. I only wish my DAT deck had WC in.
I've since picked up more gear with WC in, so the Big Ben purchase is a matter of weeks--if not days--off.
See you soon hopefully!