[RWP] New audio gear any thoughts?

[Chris Belle]

My wife has the presonus audiobox usb.

It's accessible, mostly knobs, but the control pannel is simple and you can 
get to the latency slider I think you have to mouse click to get focus.

Carey, if you want the best experience with an accessible interface, then my 
recommendation is with any of the mackie onyx i series mixers.

the little 820i clocks in at 4 hundred dollars, but there are no menus, and 
you get a lot of i-o and routing hands on.

Some of the focus rite stuff has been hot-spotted with hsc, but I think they 
broke that with some driver upgrades.

Unless you got eyes around, and can easily get help making changes though, 
do yourself a favor and get the mackie, the only difference in the lesser 
mackie's is you only get two returns back from the daw, and some differences 
in eq type and amounts of mic pres and such, but they all share much of the 
same good stuff.

YOu can route effects through the aux sends using the daw too, like reverbs 
and delays so you can use reaper to use the effects you like and use them 
like external insert boxes.

If you really want control surface functions, your out of luci.

But the mackie pared with the bcf or one of the others you mentioned would 
be a great combo

I'm generally not a big fan of the behringer stuff, build quallity and such, 
but I do own a little mixer that's held up resonably well, though I have ti 
jiggle plugs and such.

The mackie's built like a tank.

Good luck.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <khoath at gmail.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 7:18 AM
Subject: [RWP] New audio gear any thoughts?


> Wanting to use any of this under Windows QWS or Reaper.
> So I managed to pick up the following gear at somewhat of a bargain and 
> wondered if anyone had any thoughts on it.
> Perhaps I can get some of this working with Reaper or QWS?
> space in this flat is limited so thought these would be a good start.
>
> Korg Nano series 2 control surface.
>
> Behringer U Control UMX490
>
> This comes with a little audio interface the beringer 22 something which 
> has microphone and headphones in/out, and 2xRCA in/out.
>
> I'm considering buying a Tascam US144 mark2 for $229.
> These appear accessible and usable and have a couple of microphones and a 
> couple of balanced inputs and some digital i/o and midi.
>
> The music store is pushing me towards the prosonus audiobox 22vsl or 44vsl 
> which have 2/2 or 4/4 balanced inputs and outputs.
> I think they have some silly onboard effects.
> No idea on accessibility.
>
> The music shop is also big on the focusrite gear.
> From what I hear this stuff is inaccessible but they have a 2/2 and 4/4 
> box that hooks to a PC. They claim once I get eyes to set it up I should 
> be fine, and once configured I shouldn't need to change much on the 
> focusrite.
> thoughts?
>
> Regards, Kerry.
>
>
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