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Thirst for Savings posted:I don't think so, after a quick google search it seems to be an incredibly common problem. "The SM57 and SM58 microphones are based on the same cartridge design. The main difference is in the grille design." The grille affects frequency response, but overall signal strength should be the same. nrr posted:That kind of blows I thought the Fast Track Pro was a bit more capable than that.
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struan87 posted:For $200, would you really expect the preamps to rival standalone units? There are $1000 interfaces that still need outboard preamps. A $50 standalone? Well yeah kind of. Why even bother adding preamps to a unit if they can't handle a low end mic like an SM-57?
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 05:09 |
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struan87 posted:
Of course you wouldn't expect it to rival standalone units in sound quality etc, but if it can't raise the signal of probably the world's most standard issue mics to a useable level then there's little point in it existing. My ฃ250 interface might not sound boutique quality but it certainly doesn't need an external preamp in order to be any good at all.
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 14:26 |
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I've been mucking about in Logic 9 and want to pick up a really easy to use and affordable MIDI controller. I have been recommended the M-Audio Axiom keyboard. Can anyone recommend anything better or is this a good starting point?
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 15:53 |
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Contemplating a KB37 Studio. They are fetching for around 289 on ebay at the moment. This would be for an all purpose Midi controller and plugging in to record guitar/bass, eventually vocals. Any drawbacks to this simplified setup? I'm new at midi controllers and the only recordings I've done outside the studio are through an old Tascam 424 back in high school and college.
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 16:09 |
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I tried out a KB37 for a while, and it was shitshitshitshitSHIT. I know that some others on here have had success with it, but the vocal preamp was lousy and it would put a warble/crackle/echo on all my vocals to the extent that it was unusable. The presets all sounded pretty nice (though Guitar Rig 3 is vastly superior, in that regard), and I loved having actual piano keys, but I just couldn't put up with the weirdness of the vocals. Plus it feels pretty cheap and plastic-y. I would definitely avoid this, though ymmv.
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 16:42 |
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chippy posted:Of course you wouldn't expect it to rival standalone units in sound quality etc, but if it can't raise the signal of probably the world's most standard issue mics to a useable level then there's little point in it existing. I used a $1000 Delta 1010 to record recently, and even it couldn't pull my '57s and '58s up to a usable level by itself. I ran each mike through a channel on a Mackie mixer and sent the per-channel line-level outs to the Delta 1010.
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 17:24 |
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struan87 posted:Here's a FAQ about the relationship between the '57 and '58: That is odd that you seem to be getting a better experience then. Either way, I picked up the Audio Buddy, setup is working much better now. Here is my next question: The Fast Track Pro manual states that I can lower my latency buffer to 80. Yet on my machine it only goes as low as 128 which gives me an overall latency of 10ms. Is there any way to get that lower? I tried using ASIO4ALL but it kept crashing Ableton 7 anytime I adjusted it. Page 10: http://www.m-audio.com/images/global/manuals/051212_FTPro_UG_EN01_V3.PDF
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 19:17 |
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I don't really understand why the fast track pro would be designed so poorly as to not have enough gain for a standard dynamic mic. My MBOX classic has plenty of gain, so it isn't an issue of not enough power in the USB bus, and it's not like op-amps are so expensive that they couldn't have used one that provided enough gain.
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 20:12 |
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RivensBitch posted:I don't really understand why the fast track pro would be designed so poorly as to not have enough gain for a standard dynamic mic. My MBOX classic has plenty of gain, so it isn't an issue of not enough power in the USB bus, and it's not like op-amps are so expensive that they couldn't have used one that provided enough gain. This guy seems to give a bit of an explination of what's going on but it doesn't make any sense to me. Why M-Audio would do any of this and try and pass it off? http://breakpoint.livejournal.com/56793.html quote:Well, let's start where I did: by plugging a Shure SM-57 dyanmic microphone into one of the XLR inputs on the front. Long story short: to get anything even close to reasonable input out of this thing required turning the gain up all the way. Believe me, I figured something had to be wrong. I spent hours on this. But no joke, at the end of the day, an SM-57-- one of the most common microphones in the world, used for everything from garage bands to speeches by the President of the United States-- would not produce more than 50% scale even when obviously maxed out.
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 22:14 |
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Is there a preamp and DI box two-in-one thing out there? Going line-in on the guitar is no fun with the Fast Track Pro, might as well have XLR inputs too for my mics too. I'm thinking a company like Behringer or something cheap would make one of these... Edit: Orrrr what's a better alternative to the FTP? A decent audio interface that I can get a better direct-in guitar sound and proper mic preamps. Compatibility with Windows 7 would be nice, too. No. 9 fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Sep 11, 2009 |
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nrr posted:This guy seems to give a bit of an explination of what's going on but it doesn't make any sense to me. quote:Why M-Audio would do any of this and try and pass it off?
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# ? Sep 11, 2009 23:11 |
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I was really looking forward to getting a Fast Track Pro until reading about this stuff. Looks like I'm going to go with an EMU 404 instead.No. 9 posted:Edit: Orrrr what's a better alternative to the FTP? A decent audio interface that I can get a better direct-in guitar sound and proper mic preamps. Compatibility with Windows 7 would be nice, too. EMU 404 imo, unless someone else has a better recommendation? I'm using mine for a laptop based recording setup, so I need usb. 1karus fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Sep 11, 2009 |
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Has anyone had any experience with the E-Mu? What about this Line 6? http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Line-6-UX2-with-PF?sku=250004 Edit: I'm leaning towards the E-Mu, assuming it gets better reviews than the FTP. No. 9 fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Sep 11, 2009 |
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Ok so who wants to buy a really sweet Fast Track Pro I'll even autograph it
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# ? Sep 12, 2009 01:53 |
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nrr posted:Ok so who wants to buy a really sweet Fast Track Pro I'll even autograph it how much?
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# ? Sep 12, 2009 02:28 |
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So maybe I should be taking a trip back to Guitar Center tomorrow... My store has the Line 6 UX2 in stock. Maybe I'll take a look at that. I thought my noise problem on my FTP was ambient. But I guess not. Thank goodness for return polices. Reviews for the UX2 in this thread and outside seem to be very favorable. Will I even need to hang on to my Audio Buddy if I pick up the UX2 tomorrow? iSheep fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Sep 12, 2009 |
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Tell us how it is. What's the difference between the white EMU and the older one? Edit: Same question but with the Line 6: What's the difference between the UX2 and the older Tone Port UX2? Anything besides cosmetics? No. 9 fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Sep 12, 2009 |
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I'm pretty sure the new revision simply added cross platform support for Macs (hence the color scheme)quote:SCOTTS VALLEY, CA December 1, 2008
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# ? Sep 12, 2009 20:42 |
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Meh, doesn't seem to be anything really for the average Windows user then. Thanks
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# ? Sep 12, 2009 22:09 |
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Schatten posted:how much? $150 maybe. All depends on how long before I can get to the city and find something to replace it with.
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# ? Sep 12, 2009 23:07 |
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Update: Returned the Fast Track Pro. Grabbed the Line 6 UX2. So far I'm overall liking it better. ASIO4ALL works MUCH better with it than the FTP. I got my latency down without a hitch. Still using my Audio Buddy to power my SM57. I'm starting to think grabbing a condenser mic would have been better for what I'm trying to record. What are recommendations on some budget condensers?
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# ? Sep 13, 2009 09:21 |
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Why would you use ASIO4ALL? Isn't it pretty much an ASIO emulator to be used when your card doesn't really support actual ASIO?
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# ? Sep 13, 2009 15:40 |
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nrr posted:Why would you use ASIO4ALL? Isn't it pretty much an ASIO emulator to be used when your card doesn't really support actual ASIO?
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Thirst for Savings posted:Update: How is it without the Audio Buddy?
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# ? Sep 13, 2009 18:17 |
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Without the Audiobuddy it still seemed like I needed to bring the gain up pretty high to get a good signal. I need to really sit down and extensively test it however. I'm using ASIO4ALL because the on board ASIO drivers give me an overall latency that was much higher than what the ASIO4ALL can do. Neither the FTP or the UX2 on board ASIO gave me the option of going lower than 128 samples. EDIT: I'm just starting to think about going all out and getting a firewire interface. iSheep fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Sep 13, 2009 |
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Thirst for Savings posted:Neither the FTP or the UX2 on board ASIO gave me the option of going lower than 128 samples. And Thirst for Savings, did you find your FTP was more stable using ASIO4ALL compared to the M Audio drivers? Cos running Live 8 in 64 bit Vista I'm getting a lot of crashes that mostly seem to be FTP related and the FTP M Audio drivers don't exactly have the best reputation.
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# ? Sep 14, 2009 02:02 |
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Fast Track Pro was MUCH more stable using the M-Audio ASIO drivers. Ableton 7 would crash at any adjustment I would make with ASIO4ALL. I'm talking full restart of my computer to get it to boot up again. Playing with the UX2 some more now, I'm really liking the line in for instruments. Still some noise at a higher gain with the microphone. About half of that is ambient (2 computers in this room) I'm definitely impressed with it. But again, I'm gonna think it over and maybe just go balls to the wall and pick up an 8 channel firewire device.
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# ? Sep 14, 2009 04:05 |
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I would need to see a lot more evidence supporting the noise gate theory before beleiving it, it's not like mic preamps and converters are so expensive to do right. Adding a noise gate to make up for a "budget" setup like that would easily outweigh any advantages to going with a cheaper preamp/adc/dac design. Occam's razor would say it's much more likely that either the unit is oddly defective, or there's some crazy user error going on.
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RivensBitch posted:I would need to see a lot more evidence supporting the noise gate theory before beleiving it, it's not like mic preamps and converters are so expensive to do right. Adding a noise gate to make up for a "budget" setup like that would easily outweigh any advantages to going with a cheaper preamp/adc/dac design. Occam's razor would say it's much more likely that either the unit is oddly defective, or there's some crazy user error going on.
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# ? Sep 14, 2009 16:04 |
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I probably could have ran some sort of test before I brought it back. I would be interested to see someone do some science on theirs. So even though I'm really liking this UX2. I'm thinking I just wanna go all the way and grab an 8 channel Preamp so I can do some recordings with drums and possibly some other projects. Is there really an advantage of Firewire over USB 2.0 when you get up to that many channels?
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# ? Sep 14, 2009 23:40 |
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Thirst for Savings posted:I probably could have ran some sort of test before I brought it back. I would be interested to see someone do some science on theirs. As I understand it the advantage of firewire IS that its better with more channels. As it was explained to me with only 1/2 inputs there isnt much difference between firewire and USB, however because of the way firewire handles information its much better for a large amount of simultatious inputs.
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# ? Sep 15, 2009 02:08 |
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Three Red Lights posted:As I understand it the advantage of firewire IS that its better with more channels. This is true. Here's why, from page 46: warwick5s posted:Firewire does everything on chip, is peer-to-peer, and doesn't rely on the computer's processor. Having to wait in line for the processor probably is what causes drops and glitches.
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# ? Sep 15, 2009 02:39 |
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Just picked up a Yamaha 16/4 mixer to make band practice slightly easier. I've always worked directly in the box, so this is pretty new territory. I've got a few n00b things to work out then: - Mixer has "group out". I connect these to a pair of inputs on my audio interface, right? - If I want more outputs from the mixer to the audio interface, can I connect the 4 aux sends to a few channels on my audio interface or am I begging for terrible feedback with this config? Is it standard practice to do so?
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# ? Sep 17, 2009 01:56 |
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Hi how are you doing I recently bought an OSP DD502 electric drum kit (cheap but good nonetheless) and have had moderate success recording it on my hp laptop using an M-Audio MIDISport Uno, and Mixcraft 4.5 as the software. The problem is this program, mixcraft, is not picking up on as many notes I hit as I would like (i.e. I play a simple rock beat, and it misses half of the hi-hat hits, a couple snare hits, etc) So, I've been looking into better software, and came across the program Reason 4.0, and tried doing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52zTFH6umE , where you use Edrum Monitor - but when I use Edrum, I cannot add new single/double/etc tracks. If anyone can help in any way it would be much appreciated (even if this problem has been previously mentioned in this thread and I missed it, a simple "already been mentioned in this thread" will do and Ill double check) THANK YOU
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# ? Sep 17, 2009 07:25 |
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Anyone use Reaper in here? Every time I try to record in an instrument track, it gives me an offline message. I can't seem to get around it, and I can't find anything online. Help? edit : updating to the latest version seemed to solve that. pennywisdom fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Sep 18, 2009 |
# ? Sep 18, 2009 07:12 |
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Could someone please translate this sentence from the Steinberg knowledge base before I kill someone...? "In the Multi Zone change to the Track Inspector Page and click on 'Output Effects'. " Cubase Studio 5. Thanks. I don't know what the gently caress "the multi zone" is meant to be. edit: To clarify, I'm trying to use output effects on my overall mix, e.g. maximizer etc. The knowledge base appears to suggest I should do it in track inspector but track inspector disappears when I select Stereo Out in the mixer. chippy fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Sep 18, 2009 |
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The FastTrack Pro shouldn't have that much of an issue with a 57. I like using the preamp with it but I mainly got that to use with a condenser mic before I had the FTP. I'll do some experimenting later tonight with the 57 going straight into the FTP, I'm fairly certain I've had no problem maxing out the input level with it before...
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# ? Sep 21, 2009 17:31 |
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I'm thinking of buying a MOTU 828 mk3, to use with Logic and Mainstage. Before I do, I'm curious: has anyone here used one? What do you think of it?
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Alright, I've been all over other forums and it's all just a clusterfuck of too much information that I cannot process. I want to sell of my Fast Track Pro for a firewire interface. I do most of my recording through a decent condenser mic -- just vocals and acoustic guitar. I also use the line in for electric guitar. I do modeling and effects after recording in Cubase SX 3. I want something with at least 2 inputs, low latency, phantom power, and 64-bit compatible. Must work in Windows, too. Naturally, I will be using this to just listen to music for leisure too; so I want it to work for that purpose. I guess the most important factor in all this is having good preamps and good line-in; something that I don't have to crank to the max and get some good sound. I don't care much at all for on-board effects or anything, I have all I need in Cubase. I've been looking at: http://www.presonus.com/products/Detail.aspx?ProductId=4 and the http://remixmag.com/production/hardware/remix_focusrite_saffire_le/ Any ideas? This has been getting super frustrating. No. 9 fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Sep 21, 2009 |
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