How is the sound quality of these boards...I have not worked on one in
say 15 years or so and at that time I was in awe at anything bigger than
8 channels...so I am trying to replace my digital o2R's with my Logic
system and just need inputs, talkback and monitoring, not using it to
mix at all...any ideas on if this will work for me? Can anyone compare
it to a Ramsa 820B? Now that I used for a few years...noisy but nice
fat sound....this may be an option for me as well as I have found a few
very cheap.

JR

you might do a google search on this, there's plenty that's been said already.


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In article lid writes:

How is the sound quality of these boards...

..so I am trying to replace my digital o2R's with my Logic
system and just need inputs, talkback and monitoring, not using it to
mix at all...any ideas on if this will work for me?

Sure, it'll work. There were some reliability problems with the first
Scorpion consoles, but hopefully they sorted it out by the time there
was a II. The Ransa 820 should be fine for that purpose too. Just make
sure that whatever console you get has all the inputs and outputs you
need. And don't get spoiled mixing with faders or you'll want to use
it rather than Logic's mixer. You might even get used to that warm
fuzzy analog sound and like it better.




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"JR" wrote in message
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How is the sound quality of these boards...I have not worked on one in
say 15 years or so and at that time I was in awe at anything bigger than
8 channels...so I am trying to replace my digital o2R's with my Logic
system and just need inputs, talkback and monitoring,

Why do you want to replace both 02r's? It seems to me you could use an 02r
as a front end just fine. What is it, the sample rate?

jb

Why do you want to replace both 02r's? It seems to me you could use an 02r
as a front end just fine. What is it, the sample rate?



Exactly...and I don't wanna replace them with 96K boards just to replace
them again in a few years for a 192K board....

JR

In article lid writes:

Why do you want to replace both 02r's?

I don't wanna replace them with 96K boards just to replace
them again in a few years for a 192K board....

Put analog I/O cards into your console. That never goes out of date,
and you already have an investment both in money and learning in the
02R.



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I'm really Mike Rivers - )

Put analog I/O cards into your console. That never goes out of date,
and you already have an investment both in money and learning in the
02R.




Huh? What good will that do....lets see....I am recording at 192K, then
going into my digital board at....48K, why record at 192K? Or...what if
I wanna go into my computer from the board...take my keyboards, go into
my console at 48K....1 A/D, then go out of the console into the computer
interface...a D/A at 48K and another A/D at 192K...That's 3
conversions...I would rather have an analog console, that would allow me
to use my keyboards and route them to my computer...at 192K without
extra A/D/A conversions in between and that won't truncate my audio at
any of those stages.

JR

In article lid writes:

Put analog I/O cards into your console.

Huh? What good will that do....lets see....I am recording at 192K, then
going into my digital board at....48K, why record at 192K?

Yeah, that's what I say: Why record at 192 K? However, you said in
your initial message that you were recording direct and were only
using the console for monitoring and headphone feeds. So what's the
problem with A/D conversion to 48 kHz? Do you have monitor speakers
that let you hear above 20 kHz? And ears?

Or...what if
I wanna go into my computer from the board...

But that's not what you asked about.

take my keyboards, go into
my console at 48K....1 A/D, then go out of the console into the computer
interface...a D/A at 48K and another A/D at 192K...That's 3
conversions...

So? How good do you think your keyboards sound? Have you tried running
a keyboard through an analog input to listen to how much you're
losing?

I would rather have an analog console, that would allow me
to use my keyboards and route them to my computer...at 192K without
extra A/D/A conversions in between and that won't truncate my audio at
any of those stages.

OK, so get out your wallet, and perhaps a sledgehammer to move some
walls. A big analog console is big.



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I'm really Mike Rivers - )