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Re: NEW -> Pro Tools | Carbon Pre
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Now I watch it, I have seen one of his videos before. I watched this one too, as I asked for it, but I have no intention of taking any notice of him. Dominic
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The Carbon & S6L preamps are nothing more than THAT Corp 1580 Preamp ICs and THAT Corp 5173 digital gain controllers. About $12USD worth of ICs from mouser. THAT Corp make good chips... but they are designed to be cost effective. Most manufacturers advertising digitally controlled preamps in this day and age use them in basically the same design. The Hardy M-1 on the other hand contains a $50 discrete 990C opamp, and a $199 Jensen JT-16-A input transformer and a $89 Jensen JT-11-BMQ output transformer. It is a totally different kettle of handmade fish. The kind that people were using 20 years ago, and will still be using in 20 years time after Avid have given the flick to Avid Carbon Preamps, their power supplies have terminally failed and Apple have left AVB support for dead. I don't really know what a comparison between the Carbon Pre and Hardy preamps really serves, other than outlining that the M-1 is either comparatively cheap for what you get... or the Carbon Pre is overpriced.
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But I want it..... |
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Re: NEW -> Pro Tools | Carbon Pre
I love the idea of the Carbon platform. I would love to see a unit with more ADC, for people with existing front end. I could do without the preamps. The Presonus Quantum 4848 shows what could be done here.
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Native vs DSP has nothing to do with flexible I/O configurations and I'm not sure why you brought it up. Maybe my use of ADC as analog digital conversion was confusing... I'm not talking about delay compensation. The Quantum line has had 3 models so far that have targeted different I/O configs. This is a model Avid has used for multiple gens of hardware, e.g. 192 Analog vs 192 Digital, ADAT bridges, HD I/O... many ways to customize system I/O. But so far, we get no inputs for existing front end, without adding our own conversion, or passing through limited channels with unneeded interface preamps. The Quantum 4848 shows what kind of A/D input is doable in an affordable 1 rack unit. I'm certainly not the only one with existing analog front end and no need for 8 onboard preamps. I could really use a Carbon system with 24 channels of A/D conversion, so I can use my existing analog front end without adding the cost & complexity of ADAT conversion, and without 8 channels of onboard preamps, that while I'm certain are totally good, are still not quite boutique analog preamps. Avid often offers flexible I/O configurations. I hope they continue to build on the Carbon line to meet more users' needs. A base unit with a bunch of A/D conversion would be ideal for people with existing front end gear. Last edited by Philthy; 11-02-2022 at 05:04 PM. |
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System : Studio - Avid Carbon interface , PT Ultimate 2023.12 Mid 2020 (intel) iMac 27" Ventura 13.2 .1 Mobile - 2021 14 " MBP M1 Pro PT Ultimate 2024.3.0 --Sonoma 14.4 Enjoy the Journey.... Kev... |
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I thought the carbon offered something unique, but there are times I use different software for things and just don't know enough about Carbon to really be able to comment so thank you to those to are giving some real world feedback. DSP is nice and I know AVID doesn't cheap out so much when they are building the hardware. When it was announce, I was like 3k. I'm in what does it do. Unfortunately I don't know if it will work with my current system. 5,1 on Mojave. I'm waiting for Apple Mac Pro/Mini announcements which didn't come as the transition is going to be pricey. I have plenty of pres and an Apollo but setting up headphone mixes can be a bit cumbersome with the latency. It like my days on PC back in XP. I spent so much time configuring to work, but never worked. Bought a Mac and then I worked. There has been an idea to go Dante. Or MADI with a pair of Euphonix converters. So it might be a reserve in the future. I really need to look into the additional added benefits in the PT world. It seems like AVID has really stepped up their game in the updates department and that is making the software more appealing again.
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