The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Blue, thanks.
Just found a few more things on that cubase messageboard, something about running Windows service pack 2 with Layla driver 6.11.

I'll be back in a few days with the verdict.

Wow,

and in an amazing twist of coincidence, it seems that Pro-Tools have taken over Wizoo. This is wierd cos last year creamware underwent some serious problems (yeh, finacial crap, cos of massive development costs of a new unit*, which never really took off, despite its apparent quality). At this time Creamware let most of their engineers go and scaled back to a much smaller staff. All these engineers were then employed byWizoo.
So in effect - Pro-Tools have employed the Creamware engineers. Now that is a synchronicity, and one that in my opinion can only be good for Pro-Tools. Watch out for exiting development there

-Me$$iah


*the device in question was the Noah rackmountable DSP synth. It looks like an amazing machine, cept the price??? Tho I aint never tried one so I dont know.....They've now brought out a new device which is getting rave reviews called the Minimax ASB .... check it out. Its like the new Moog or something

boltoph wrote:I'll be back in a few days with the verdict.

The verdict is, the damn Layla box is defective and has been returned to Echo for investigation. I suppose we'll have a new one soon.

If anyone ever has probs w/ Layla 3G soundcard on a Windows XP system, let me know. I just boogied every possible dance step in that troop.

digidesign makes no worthwhile products in the under several thousand dollars price range. period. even if the a/d isn't terrible (which they are usually), they skimp out on plug-ins.

be especially wary of the digi 001, they're now obsolete (after pro tools 6.4).

the firepod is something i've been debating on getting...my preamp is a presonus and i love it...let me know how it is, if you get it.

Puce, how's that UA-25 working out for you?

The Firepod is awesome.

c hack wrote:Puce, how's that UA-25 working out for you?

I love it. It has an impedance matching switch that gives my direct-in guitar and bass a glaringly obvious tonal improvement (I never used a DI box before. Silly me). The mic pre is noiseless and good (I guess. I can't tell a good pre-amp from a shit pre-amp), but the instrument pre has some low-level digital static. Thankfully this static falls way way way below where my gates are set at, so I never really notice it. Probably my favorite thing is that the pre-amps have a built-in limiter, so I'm no longer afraid to do some shouting. Before I always recorded at like -24 db because otherwise when I got loud I would get clipping; unfortunately my old Soundblaster only recorded at 16 bits-per-sample, so this ate a huge portion of my bitdepth. Now I record at around -10 db (at 24 bitdepth, too).

I haven't tried its Midi ins'n'outs, but it would be pretty hard for Edirol to screw those up. Also haven't used its Digital In; I probably never will.

My second-favorite thing about it is the ability to record two signals at once (my SB had too much cross-talk between its channels to do this, plus it meant adapting down from a 1/4" mono and an XLR cable to a single 1/8" stereo cable, which felt dirty). I tested out my newfound dual-recording ability by doing a quick guy-n-guitar cover of a couple Brad Sucks songs. This also serves as a pretty good demo of the noise level of the UA-25. Please ignore the sloppy playing and the missed lyrics, or if you can't just keep repeating to yourself "one-take" over and over again.

Puce wrote:I tested out my newfound dual-recording ability by doing a quick guy-n-guitar cover of a couple Brad Sucks songs.

Hey, that sounds good. Really has some depth to it.

Damn your voice is nice.

Ken