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| Re: Focusrite ISA 428, any opinions? [message #79592 is a reply to message #79582] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 11:17   |
Robert Arsenault
Messages: 49
Registered: September 2006
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="_blank">http://www.twintone.com/video/mats/
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>>Even at this tender age they were just a little bit more tuneful than their
>>punk/hardcore compatriots, and Westerberg drips scrawny charisma. The closing
>>cover of a Hank Williams tune is, to me, precious. But then again I grew
>>up 90 miles from Minneapolis at precisely this time.
>>
>>TCB
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>>P.S. Apparently working with Westerberg is a singular pain in the ass,
but
>>hell, I don't think Miles Davis was a really nice guy either.
>"Gene Lennon" <glennon@NOSPmyrealbox.com> wrote:
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>"Neil" <OIUOIU@IU.com> wrote:
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>>Oh, and a PCI card-based rackmount nice & clean & trasparent
>>convertor set that can give me 16-analog in's at samplerates
>>higher than 48k... but since nobody makes that, I'd settle for
>>more space.
>>
>>Neil
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>
>2X MOTU 2408MKIII with Black Lion Mods.
>Pick up 2408s on eBay.
>This is expandable to 32 I/O analog and a total of 98 I/O.
>The current drivers are stable on XP and OSX, MOTU supports 64 bit drivers.
>The Black Lion Mods
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| Re: Focusrite ISA 428, any opinions? [message #79596 is a reply to message #79592] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 13:15 |
Nil
Messages: 245
Registered: March 2007
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Unlike MS/Rapsody, where as soon as
>you stop paying MS, the music stops being playable. At least you get to
>keep what you buy with iTunes, unlike MS's DRM bullshit!.
>
>The record companies are doing fine now, and now the greedy bastards want
>more. They are trying to force Apple to raise prices. Jobs would like
to
>see them relax and open the market up more by dropping the DRM. The Pay
>to play model sucks for consumers. It's MS's pay to play DRM that Apple
>is fighting against. Yet you blame Apple, and accuse them of the pay of
>play model.
>
>Look at the record companies and the lock they have on music distribution
>and Air play. Apple has tried to help artist and independent record labels
>to get their product out there to the public. Apple has given the public
>a place to buy music, a lot of music at a reasonable price. Apple doesn't
>force you to buy the whole record to get one good song.
>
>The greedy entitled record companies have tried to screw the artists and
>musicians out of their fair share. They are trying to squeeze everybody
>they and their greasy lawyers can. Look at how many people the record companies
>and the RIAA have sued! They have their lobby group the RIAA which is a
>gang of thug lawyers that pushes everybody around. Impoverished kids and
>single moms! They don't care, pay up or else! Slime!
>
>MS, look at the things they've done. They have stolen from Apple, netscape,
>Sun, the list goes on, and the list is long. Look at how much they have
>taken. They steal, then they turn around and prosecute people that copy
>their software, when much of it was stolen by th
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| Re: Focusrite ISA 428, any opinions? [message #79599 is a reply to message #79596] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 14:42 |
Dimitrios
Messages: 1056
Registered: August 2005
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t;>buy a car you'll have to sign and EULA that says, 'This 'motor vehicle'
>is
>>licensed, not sold, to you . . .'
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>>BTW I'm putting my money where my mouth is on this one. I'm trying to convince
>>the Mold Monkies to release our upcoming second CD as both .ogg and .flac
>>files into the file sharing universe. I'm hoping to include a note pointing
>>people to our web site and saying only that if they like our music it would
>>be really cool if they would buy a sticker or a T-Shirt or pick up my bar
>>tab some night. I haven't completely convinced the guys, I don't write
songs
>>for this band so it's their copyright not mine, but I'm getting closer.
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>>TCB
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>>"Ted Gerber" <tedgerber@rogers.com> wrote:
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>>>Thad-
>>>
>>>What's your take on the idea that DRM is being foisted on all online stores
>>>by the
>>>respective rights holders/publishers?
>>>
>>>FLAC is very good. If anyone's on Mac, Amadeus will play FLAC files...
>>>
>>>Ted
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>>>"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote:
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>>>>Other than the DRM and the fact that you're locked into their hardware,
>>>it's
>>>>not bad. Which is kind of like the famous, 'Other than, Mrs. Lincoln,
>how
>>>>was the show?'
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>>>>For higher quality audio, check out FLAC.
>>>>
>>>>TCB
>>>>
>>>>"DJ" <www.aarrrrggghhh!!!.com> wrote:
>>>>>OK, so I'm an (admittedly) old curmudgeon and only listen to compressed
>>>>
>>>>>audio files when I absolutely have to and I especially go out of my
way
>>>>to
>>>>>avoid having anything to do with Mac related stuff as a matter of principle,
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| Re: Focusrite ISA 428, any opinions? [message #79605 is a reply to message #79599] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 15:59 |
Neil
Messages: 1645
Registered: April 2006
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" <jjdpro@ameritech.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>The DM 2000 mic pre's are in a different league than the 02R96. And
withthe
>>>>>Version 2 software upgrade, you get vintage neve EQs, UAD 1176 & LA2a
>>comps
>>>>>and an Tape saturator plugins. They sound wonderful..
>>>>>
>>>>>But, like James M stated, the Tascam for around 5k is a a nice mixer
>as
>>>>well,
>>>>>and sounds good..
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>Tascam always amazes me at what they miss... take the *NEW* 48 track
for instance:
http://www.tascam.com/Products/x48.html
A Built-in 80GB drive!
<shaking head>
David.
Yes, we are a Tascam dealer...
Neil wrote:
> At $4k for their big console as James describes, I donm't think
> I'd do it... for a few "k" more you can dig up an old 24 or
> 36 channel Trident Series 24 somewhere. No automation, no DAW
> control, but they sound f-ing great and your potenital clientele
> won't be likely to think: "ewww, I'm going to record through a
> TASCAM???"
>
> Neil
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> "Gantt Kushner" <ganttmann@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>How are the Tascam mic pres?
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>>Gantt
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>>"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>I'll plug Mike Ofca again. If you want to see, and hear the DM 3200, it's
>>>in the back ground of Mike's video. Check it out.
>>>
>>>http://www.mikeofca.com/
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>>>"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>"Gantt Kushner" <ganttmann@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>>>And the DM2000 can act as the control surface for all the major DAW's?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The Tascam DM-3200 and DM 4800 does also. The Tascam will give you 32
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>>ins
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>>>>and 32 outs at up to 24bit 96K to your computer with the FireWire interface
>>>>card. That's one cable connected to your computer! You can cascade/expand
>>>>the system with a second mixer, that's 50 touch-sensitive motorized faders
>>>>of daw control, plus the Channel Strip and all the encoders. Check out
>>
>
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| Re: Focusrite ISA 428, any opinions? [message #79606 is a reply to message #79601] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 16:02 |
Neil
Messages: 1645
Registered: April 2006
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;>the
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>>>>video!
>>>>
>>>>It serves as your audio interface, DAW controller/transport control, mixer,
>>>>cue system, TC Reverbs, 4-band EQ, compression and gating on each channel,
>>>>mic pres, inserts and line inputs per ch., with total flexible routing.
>>>
>>>>It's a powerful piece of equipment that can replace a lot of pieces of
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>>equipment.
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>>>>You can get a new Tascam DM-3200 for under $2500.00, and a new DM 4800
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>>for
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>>>>under 4K. I think the price is hard to beat!
>>>>
>>>>http://www.tascam.com/Products/dm4800.html
>>>>
>>>>James
>>>>P.S. I'm not a Tascam dealer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"LaMont " <jjdpro@ame
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