sean.boyer wrote:If you already have the Onyx, I'd say try it. I've used the 32 ch version for recording a few times, and I find the preamps to be fine. They're not Great River or anything, but I mean - come on... It's a cheap portable desk. They have a reasonable noise floor, and you can completely physically bypass the EQ's. I've never used the firewire option, as I just did the ol' insert to lineout trick to get out of the desk, and went into a pair or Tubefire interfaces. They're not bad if you aren't using their preamps as well. A pair of those could be as cheap as $300 if you look around.
If you don't have it already, why not just go into a MOTU A/D or something? A pair of Fire Studio's even.
That seems rather extreme on the far end of quality and price for what I figured was a more budget oriented approach. It'll be a sweet A/D D/A setup, no doubt about that, but I guess to me it's a pretty big jump from Mackie Onyx, to Lynx Aurora...Burnsy wrote:Well, I'm going to bite the bullet. Sigh. There's just no inexpensive way around it. I'm going to have to purchase a 16 channel i/o ad/da converter. Its truly the best option I have, not the cheapest for sure. Nothing else will do what I need. Thinking of the Aruara Lynx 16 ch i/o. We have one at school, and its a pretty sweet piece of equipment.
The build of the DAW (computer) will have as big an impact on "latency" as the type of converters you use. I doubt you need to step up to Lynx to get a usable spec. Andrew?Burnsy wrote:Discussions with some of my instructors told me that I would have some major latency issues if I didn't go with converters, like playback and overdubbing. So, unless i can figure out some other solution....it seems I may have to suck it up and deal with it.
Burnsy wrote:Right now, as far as latency...and I don't think this is going to change if I purchased the Onyx... when I do an overdub for example, if I sing over the acoustic track I just laid down, I have to mute the track I'm recording to, and sing without hearing my vox over the acoustic track. If I un-mute the track I'm tracking on, so I can hear my vox going through the chain, there is a delay and it's off just enough to screw with the timing and my head. From what I understand, that issue will remain if I purchase something that isn't going to deal with the latency properly.
Burnsy wrote:Hmmm, I did not think of that. I will try that tonight, and see what happens. So, if it is just a computer buffering issue, and changing settings... I may not have to drop $4000.00? Hmmmmmmm........
This.macrae11 wrote:Correct. Just upgrading your converters won't directly affect that. Any native system will require a bit of juggling to get acceptable latency.
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