Multi-track portable audio interface?

[system]

oh yes and the Canadians you lucky buggers , id give my left and right arms and legs to live there !

Ultralite still rocks !

[foolomon]

@thinkingcap

@foolomon

Completely newbie question: if the interface has 1/4" balanced inputs does that mean I can buy an XLR to 1/4" cable and that’s enough,

Enough for what…?

Enough to use a low impedance microphone without having to use a transformer to convert it to high impedance.

[thinkingcap]

@foolomon

Enough to use a low impedance microphone without having to use a transformer to convert it to high impedance.

No, it just means it’ s balanced. And apart from the impedances, it’ s totally different signal levels between line- and Microphone inputs.

[Bane]

@foolomon

Edit: so far I’ve only found the PreSonus AudioBox 44VSL. Anyone have any experience with this?

Neither SOS or DAWbench flatter this product. It seems to have unsatisfactory latency performance too. I think I’m gonna stay away from the Audiobox line for now.

[foolomon]

@Bane

@foolomon

Edit: so far I’ve only found the PreSonus AudioBox 44VSL. Anyone have any experience with this?

Neither SOS or DAWbench flatter this product. It seems to have unsatisfactory latency performance too. I think I’m gonna stay away from the Audiobox line for now.

Thanks for the heads up.

Found out today that my wife’s car needs $1,000 worth of repairs. Looks like this wish list item stays on the wish list for now.

[tjstech]

@foolomon

I’m thinking of upgrading a key piece of equipment: my audio interface.

In my workstation I use an M-Audio 2496, which is fine since I have yet to do any recording (with one exception, which is the reason for this post) of anyone else in my “project studio” (term used very loosely).

However, the one exception has been live drums. Also, on-location recording more often requires multiple microphones. It would be great to have a USB 2.0 interface (meaning it’s external and - if it’s not rack mounted - portable, which is really what I’m after) that supports 4 tracks minimum. Currently I have a Tascam US-144 but it only has stereo outs.

4 simultaneous tracks would allow me a much greater degree of flexibility since I wouldn’t have to use my Mackie 802-VLZ3 as a mix-to-stereo device. (I will probably still use it since the pre-amps aren’t bad and it has direct outs from each channel.) In the instance with the tuba recording where I forgot to set the panning of the individual mics, it wouldn’t have mattered since I would have had one track per mic meaning I could have set the panning in Cubase.

Any recommendations?

Edit: so far I’ve only found the PreSonus AudioBox 44VSL. Anyone have any experience with this?

If you can get by with 44k 16 bit, you can use the Fostex MR-16 to do the on-location recording, then USB the tracks out to your computer and into Cubase.