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Re: Carbon Expanded - ADAT
Agreed with the last post. For expanding the Carbon, you should look at getting the Carbon Pre. Up to two of these can be used with your main Carbon, giving you 24 i/o, plus the adats on the main unit.
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Thanks all for your inputs, very helpful. Was able to cancel to order for the HD I/O. Not crazy about having to add the two carbon pres to the carbon to get up to 24 channels of I/O, so will have to phase in the carbon pres over time. Anyway will get the carbon in and put it to work and see if I can't live without it. Jury's out.
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The total amount of DSP processing power is the same regardless of whether you buy
a) Carbon + Pre + Pre b) Carbon + MOTU 16A In other words, the HDX chips are only in the Carbon. The difference in the above setups are: a) all channels can work at up to 192KHz. (Although you probably won't have enough DSP for tracking 24 channels at 192 with plugs). b) you are limited to 24 channels at 44.1/48. Or 16 channels at 96KHz a) PT can control the preamp levels (+phantom etc) of all channels b) You will need to control the MOTU separately a) alignment of converter delay is catered for b) aligmnent of converter delay needs to be calculated. Good luck. Usually fine if you don't use a stereo pair split across devices. a) pretty matching boxes b) ugly MOTU box. Yuk. Dominic
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Also the person that we replied to never mentioned he needed 24 IO’s at 96k and in his last post he was considering just the Carbon with its 8x8 IO. As for remote Mic pre’s, I never saw the use of it unless if used in a remote situation(pre’s on stage). I much prefer to touch the knobs on my mic pre’s |
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One would think the quality of the audio and functionality would be paramount over looks --but hey to each their own As for the usefulness of the mic remote feature it's kinda like a TV remote, not necessary, but pretty damn handy I personally like to have the ability to control some features right there at the top of all the audio tracks channel strips with out having to look away from the session. #1 link or unlink pairs of tracks #2 turn phantom power on and off #3 set or change input gain levels #4 select mic or line level #5 reverse polarity Now to be sure you do not have the tactile thing but then ya don't have that in a DAW mixer anyway and all that is totally subjective also AND does not actually detract from, or diminish, the usefulness --jusss sayin'
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Remember it is targeted at the user who does not need more than (now with Pre option) more than 24 inputs What they will likely do is revamp their full blown HDX offerings for users with larger input needs. The good news is Carbons mic pre's and conversion is top notch and the seamless single window integration with PT is a breeze to work with and my guess is you find the in the track Pre control feature will be one of those things you never thought about and didn't miss UNTIL you actually have it (kinda like a microwave oven )
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Re: Carbon Expanded - ADAT
I'm using my Carbon with an older SSL AlphaLink that was part of my HDN system and an Omni.
It's kind of a shame because I have eight SSL channels that are pretty useless because of SSL's routing. I wish it could mirror the A or B ADAT-ins because then I could use it with one of those Behringer monitoring systems or something. At any rate, the SSL converters sound good and the unit can be found for cheap these days. I'm using the line in/out on Carbon to a patch bay and it handles my outboard fairly well: 2 LA-2A 1 1176 1 DBX 160A 1 Lexicon I'm also using those lines for some external pres when tracking. I have the 16 ADAT outs going to the SSL to send 16 analog signals to an API The Box, then I return through the program sum to Carbon's line-ins. It sounds a lot more complicated than it is. If Carbon would have had 24 ADAT it would be perfect, but compared to Apollo, and at the no-software price, it's hard to beat IMHO!
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