Erik Mandaville Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 I'm watching all of this with interest! Dave: I'm curious about this double-posting that sometimes happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjohnsonhp Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 Dave and SPike, How did the testing go Sunday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted March 17, 2003 Author Share Posted March 17, 2003 It was covered live under the "...16 bit question." thread, then today under "Modest hypothesis...." Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted March 17, 2003 Author Share Posted March 17, 2003 http://www.waverepair.com/ Check this out for free/cheap click and pop removal software. Haven't tried it, but I tracked it down after an oblique mention in the article on 78 playback in the current Audiophile voice. The price is right...but it doesn't go past 16/44.1. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good2BHome Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Dave, Small correction to the http://www.waverepair.com/ site information. It will record at either 16/44.1 or 16/48 Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khorn58 Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Just add The Benchmark DAC1 to your sound card digitital out or cd and you be in sonic bliss. They are raving about The Benchmark DAC1 over at the Highend pro studio forum. A lot of gold bound mix's will be moniterd through them this year. link = http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 What you guy's think of this Deal ?? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3407683730&category=3701 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted March 18, 2003 Author Share Posted March 18, 2003 As to http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/, the price is just at the edge of too much for us average joes, but the worst part is it only goes one way. Anyway, I'm pretty much in sonic bliss already. As for http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3407683730&category=3701, I've not heard it, but Marvel and others seem to rate it highly and at this price somebody here who wants to give this a try should snap it up on the buy it now. I predict somebody will, whether us or otherwise. Speaking of Buy It Now, I've just done so on something that requires another Ebay purchase to complete what may be my Ebay purchase of the decade value wise. Can't comment until about 5 days, but my heart is going pitter patter! Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonelobo Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 How much not to spill the beans? Not to bid? Not to be bad? There is nothing that money can't buy, especially silence. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna feel stupid after this is all over....oops, too late. I feel stupid already! Doh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted March 19, 2003 Author Share Posted March 19, 2003 Well Mr. Smarty Pants, bear in mind I still have your Heresies and and a Cornwall. I think. Haven't seen them lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 The Audiophile 2496 also has midi out, which is pretty irrelevant for the purposes here. I guess we tend to like what we've got, but mine has worked extremely well. Certainly not like a crapblaster. Marvel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougdrake Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 If anyone's interested in the M-Audio Revolution card at a great price, CompUSA has it on sale this week (4-6 to 4-12) for $65 after MIR (sku number 300197). You can order it online and they'll ship it for about $5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd76 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 I just got on this forum today because I was looking for a 2chn amp for my kg 3.5's, but I write music also. I have the M-audio Omni Studio, which is a delta 66 sound card with break box for connections and control. As far as surround goes, I'm not familiar with the newer "surround" cards. I can tell you that in the music writing world, M-audio is very well respected. M-audio is actually a subsidiary of Midiman, although they're starting to go by M-audio. Another great product from the same group is Propellerhead. If you've ever heard of Reason, that's who makes it. The group at M-audio are very inovative and have their sh*# together. They make good products and great prices. As far as soundcards go, the sound card is only as good as it's driver. M-audio has awesome drivers. Don't buy any card that doesn't have an ASIO driver, you'll just be wasting your money. Also, don't buy Soundblaster!!!! I repeat, do not buy Soundblaster!!! Crappiest, most commercialized card out there. I don't use my computer for home theater so I don't really know what the M-audio cards sound like. You can bring the signal out at 24bit/96khz. It's not really up to the card to decide wether or not it's surroud capable, technically. It's up to the software. Most of the music writing software out there are starting to incorporate surround mixing. I use Cubase SX. It's not recommeded for the beginner, but it'll almost anything you can think of. If the software mixes in surround you don't need multiple outputs on the soundcard. So you could use to audiophile 24/96 to encode in surround. Cubase will export a surround mix, but to burn it to disk, you need encoding software. It's a bit pricey right now, but give a year. Surround is here to stay. In the future, all music cd's will be surround capable. Most studios now days are mixing/mastering in surround already, although they don't release it. That's because they want to be prepared for the future. Here are a couple of software suggestions for encoding in surround: Minnetonka's Surcode Universal or Audio's SmartCode. As far as SACD or dvd-a? Forget about it. Can you say proprietary technology? Just in case you didn't know, SPDIF is the original format for a cd, which is 16bit/44.1khz. SPDIF stands for Sony Phillips Digital Interface. Sony and Phillips teamed up to develop the cd, so there's you inventors of the cd!!! Sony and Phillips have teamed up again on the SACD. I would bet on SACD over dvd-a since you have to have a different player for either one, plus SACD has a higher sample rate. Anyway, I thought some of this might be informative for some. Have fun with your equipment!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd76 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Oh yeah, I forgot. Go to Cubase.net if you have anymore questions on soundcards. You can get anything answered there by some true experts. Go to the hardware forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted April 6, 2003 Author Share Posted April 6, 2003 See my thread "Faith in PWK now absolute," down the thread a bit. I am working on a "purist" 4 channel surround concept and will need to figure out how to encode to DVD. I just acquired a WamiRack 192L for the 4 channel project. I disagree with you about SACD vs DVD-A for one big reason...consumers, who have millions of DVD-A capable players whether they know it or not. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd76 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Are you asking me how you might encode a dvd in surroud? Also, you're saying that dvd players are being sold now that are capable of playing dvd-a, people are buying them and not realizing it? I didn't know they were that available yet. I have a sony dvd player that plays sacd's. The reason why I think Sony might win out is the deep pockets bewteen the two companies. I don't think Sony would concede a loss. I could be wrong though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted April 6, 2003 Author Share Posted April 6, 2003 All DVD players are capable of at least 24/96, as that is the spec for video surround. The issue is DVD-R capability, which was spotty at first but much better in the past few years. I've read the standards, and they have pretty wide latitude. What I need to find is software to encode 4 channels only, not 5.1. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd76 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Well, you have control over all five channles independently, plus you have bass management(which it is another science in itself. If you only wanted it in 4-channel, just try taking the center channel out. You could mix it like that with the center gone and do your mixing and panning from there on. Then just burn it witht he 5.1 software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted April 6, 2003 Author Share Posted April 6, 2003 Well, the more I think about it, I might well go 4.1. It would make no differnce to those without a sub, and be useful to those with one. What are you useing to encode burnable? Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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