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How do you guys record drums (or anything analog source with many tracks at once)? I'm thinking of buying Behringer DDX3216 but it has 'only' 24-bits and it's ADAT connected, so it gives maximum of 48khz.
How can I record 32bits@96khz?
A16 Ultra also gives only 24bits, is this some kind of standard? (And in case of A16 I should buy 10pre-amps, not very nice)

Is 24bits@44.1khz just plain enough?

I think 24/44.1 is 'just plain enough' like you said. And for recording true 32bits/96khz, you need a sound source from inside SFP, since all ad/da are 24bits, there is no use of recording it in 32bits anyway. But recording in 24bits is very recommended thou! You cold record multiple track in 24bits using logic, since i remember you telling us you had Logic. Just route every analog source to asio dest, and record those track directly in logic. That'll do the job just fine.

The new Terratec mic 8 seems to be an interesting converter/pre-amp.
Pre-amp section is made by SPL

http://www.terratec.net/products/EWS_mi ... c_info.htm


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Andre Dupke on 2002-10-27 14:14 ]</font>

Marcus,
I don't have very many analog sources as I have only one card.

But about 96khz or 88.2 khz? It's not possible through ADAT AFAIK. How is it possible?

i use direct outs from my board,(24 channels of nice pres.you can get studio boards from the eighties for cheap.they already made many great recordings)into a/d converters(frontier tango.two of them.)into light pipe into computer...

a typical session would be 4 mics:kik(akg d112 or audixd4 etc),snare(audix d1),hihat(atm833 condernser),overhead(atm33 condenser)

for the right situation i,d also mic toms and use two mics for overheads,but this takes a lot longer to set up as i like to use gates on tom mics.(snare sometimes too)

i don't usually compress untill later but i do like to limit.

But about 96khz or 88.2 khz? It's not possible through ADAT AFAIK. How is it possible?

It is possible. 16 ch's of adat will give you 8 ch's of 96kHz. The signal is divided across two adat channels.

bassdude, aaah.. but I bet it needs some special features from both devices? Does Pulsar/Scope support it?
How about other usual devices?

It's called S-MUX, and is AFAIK only supported by CW ADAT ports.

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: valis on 2002-10-30 07:10 ]</font>

Are you recording with Cubase?

I use the TrueTape from Cubase VST32, it can record 32bit flow wav , I use the Asio2-32 Source64 Pulsar/Asio modules for that.
But I don´t tried this on a multichannel record of drums, via a Mixer and the ADAT´s.
My working samplerate is 44,1kHz.
That should be enough,there is a small golden norm: Your recording samplerate should be twice higher than the highest frequence of your recording signal.
Do you ever heard a HiHat at 48kHz ?

Cheers



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ChrisWerner on 2002-10-30 03:55 ]</font>

On 2002-10-29 02:30, at0mic wrote:
It's called S-MUX, and is AFAIK only supported by CW ADAT ports.

Hello Atomic,

Any product that is s-mux compatible can do 96khz over adat. e.g. the new Octopre from Focusright (8 preamps) has *two* adat outputs specifically so it can transfer 96kHz over ADAT.

Cheers!