Interface

[Snakeman1066]

thinking of moving away from the trusty ol' 4 track to the computer

for those of you that use them.... what brand and or type inteface are you guys using?


I'm basically a guy who writes original material that i record myself (playing both guitar parts, bass, drums and all vocals)

 

[caesarbass]

This site should help:
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Check out "Low end Theory."

 

[hunta]

+1 on gearslutz.

I use a Focusrite Saffire Pro/26 and an ADK laptop (music laptop vendor). I really like this setup, it might be overkill for what you do, but maybe not if you want to mic up the whole drum set.

Here is 4 step process!

1) Get a firewire interface. USB is only suitable if you're recording 1 or 2 tracks at a time, and sometimes not even then.

2) Get a computer with TI firewire.

3) Get awesome mics.

4) Make awesome music.

 

[Plain Old Me]

I use the PreSonus Firepod (as do many others on this board) and it is awesome. I used to use a E-Mu card before it fried on me. So far, the PreSonus has proved very useful. The mic pres are slightly noisy, but if you are using strong signals you should be fine. If not, you may want to invest in an external preamp with the FirePod. However, the interface is one of the best on the cheap side of things. If you don't need all of the inputs though, you could go for something smaller. I would strongly recommend anything by PreSonus based on my experience with the FirePod, but I am sure there are other great interfaces out there too.

 

[hunta]

Noisy pres on the Presonus? How bad is it? The ones on the Focusrite are really clean, the only problems I've had with noise are hum problems coming from noisy guitar pickups and such. The headphone outputs can be pretty noisy sometimes, but the actual recording is always clean.

 

[Plain Old Me]

Noisy pres on the Presonus? How bad is it? The ones on the Focusrite are really clean, the only problems I've had with noise are hum problems coming from noisy guitar pickups and such. The headphone outputs can be pretty noisy sometimes, but the actual recording is always clean.

Its not so much that they are noisy as that they don't have much headroom. Usually if I push em more than half way they start to get some hiss.

 

[tZer]

+ 1 on gearslutz (too).

I am using Dell PC (2.4 gHz Pentium, 512mb RAM, 7200rpm 80gig Hard drive) and a Delta 1010LT AD/DA converter (8 ins, 8 outs).

 

[stranger0]

no noise on the firestudio

 

[caesarbass]

+1 on gearslutz.

I use a Focusrite Saffire Pro/26 and an ADK laptop (music laptop vendor). I really like this setup, it might be overkill for what you do, but maybe not if you want to mic up the whole drum set.

Here is 4 step process!

1) Get a firewire interface. USB is only suitable if you're recording 1 or 2 tracks at a time, and sometimes not even then.

2) Get a computer with TI firewire.

3) Get awesome mics.

4) Make awesome music.

I use a Saffire pro too and I love it!!!