Building Your Home Studio Episode 5 - Choosing an Audio Interface or Converter

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Building Your Home Studio Episode 5 - Choosing an Audio Interface or Converter

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The Gear Cage

Күн бұрын

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@guillermotapia4801 2 жыл бұрын

Episode 6?

@TheGearCage 2 жыл бұрын

It's going up soon! I'm re-recording it because I added a Flock Audio Patch and wanted to chat about it along with the Acme Audio XL3A I added to complete the whole setup. I hope to have it up in about 1-1.5 weeks!

@nanocyde_artist Жыл бұрын

I have an Arturia Audiofuse, expanded over ADAT with an Apogee Rosetta 800. Very good stuff

@mentalprogram5256 2 жыл бұрын

Just subscribed. Cant wait to learn more.

@raf5.13 2 жыл бұрын

Haha NOT biased at all! I love uad too.

@TheGearCage 2 жыл бұрын

True story! 😂. I just love when a product is so well thought out and reliable. They hired a lot of the Digidesign employees from back in the day to work on the Apollo line and they’re just killing it.

@checkmatenate 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been hearing that the lynx aurora converter sounds better than the heritage apollo’s but I haven’t seen it compared to the x16. I have the Apollo x8 and have it connected to the dangerous d box +

@jpilot07 8 ай бұрын

I got the 8xp thinking about switching over.

@checkmatenate 8 ай бұрын

@@jpilot07 I bet you could set the lynx aurora as the master clock, and then use ADAT to connect the 8xp as the slave clock. Also I commented that a year ago and I heard from Luca Pretolesi that Daft Punk Uses the Prism Titan Interface because of their ultra clear converters... I have my apollo x8 paired with my D-box + for the purpose of analog summing.

@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios Жыл бұрын

How would you recommend switching between converters to access the different audio monitors?

@Detopie Жыл бұрын

thanks for making this vid! very unrated. it’s hard to find quality stuff on youtube anymore

@eddysel10 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Any opinion on Antelope audio, focusrite Clarett and Slate VRS?

@freeasabird6799 7 ай бұрын

can I use the avid carbon and apollo at the same time?

@foreverrepublic4169 Жыл бұрын

Are you implying that a digital converter is more required for professional studios ? Basically saying that a converter should stand on its own and be attached to a preamp ? Is the x series a converter or a preamp ? Or both like a interface ?

@TheGearCage Жыл бұрын

You'll usually find more of a traditional 'converter' product in a pro studio because they don't need the preamps that an 'interface' would give you. A pro studio may have a console or other outboard preamps/eq/compression/processing that mean 16/24/32 channel converters are more advantageous to their setup. That's not a dig at interfaces though because interfaces like the Apollo line from Universal Audio have great preamps, converters, headphone amps and DSP all built-in. These days, creativity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to sonic success as all of the audio technology has improved exponentially.

@billymack4258 2 жыл бұрын

Great tips and info! I've beed a long time Apollo twin user and I now own the the 6X I'm not happy with the sound of the converters they seem to have a light hard muddy distortion sound when I tried a few different audio interfaces the muddy distortion went away I love the UAD Apollo plug-ins zero latency etc... I'm thinking of getting a Burl Audio B2 Bomber ADC 2-channel AD Converter and bypassing the Apollo 6X converters. This is my home studio I'm only tracking one or two tracks at a time. Cubase pro, Apollo 6X, LA 610 mic pre, MacBook pro I'm also getting a Apple Mac-book Pro M1 Max 16" Space Gray 10/32C 64GB RAM 2TB SSD and a BAE Mic Pre & EQ w/ PS. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks. 🙂

@ezrashanti 9 ай бұрын

I think thats a good strategy if you love console. The Steinberg AX4 sounds phenomenal and integrates with Cubase but may be discontinued.

@Biffinnbridge 10 ай бұрын

UA just are not in the same league as RME. have you even tried it?

@TheGearCage 10 ай бұрын

Of course! It’s the gear cage. I’ve used it all. RME is great, but UA is better overall.

@1eidji652 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your video, just I don't understand, if I take an example, when I want to connect say 4 stereo synthesizers (with two outputs/ ), how many inputs do I need in my sound card? And if we refer to UAD, which one is best suited for simultaneously using 4 synthesizers, and say a pedal board with 5 pedals? I admit that I am quite confused, I confuse the jack sockets, with the mic sockets, with the adat sockets, ext ...

@TheGearCage 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Eidjii, good question! You can probably use an X8,X8P, or x16. If the synthesizers are all stereo that will take 8 inputs, but if you have some mono synths you can cut the inputs down. You can use an external ADAT box like an Octopre from Focusrite or an Audient ASP800 or ASP880. That will give the X6/X8/or X8P 8 more inputs. As far as running guitar pedals through the system…I’m actually covering that soon, but you can use a Radial EXTC product (DI style or 500 series box) to convert from balanced line level to instrument level and vice versa.

@studiodsr 2 жыл бұрын

In order to maximize inputs on their interface many people connect all of their synths to a mixer (such as a mackie or alesis) and sum them down to a single stereo channel before going into the interface

@1eidji652 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGearCage thanks you It helps me a lot in my choice, I think I'm going to go on an apollo x8, I still have a few questions :) since I intend to connect my synthesizers to the Apollo, I have to connect it too midi, do you recommend the iConnectivity mioXL rack? (or another midi hub, whatever the brand), my goal is to play my synthesizers in my daw, to be able to move around my studio, and modulate the sound with pedals while recording midi and audio in my sessions.Thanks you, I'm in a hurry for the new videos to come out :)

@kayakbandits9894 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, just came across your channel. Ive been using a presonus firestudio project interface for years now and have loved it for its 8 mic pre inputs. But Id like to experiment with some newer tech? Maybe up my sound quality on my recordings? My pc is I think a 2017 gaming pc? I have several usb 3.1 ports an 1 USB-C port. Is there an Apollo twin X I can use without selling my first born for a new mac? Cheers!

@TheGearCage 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, not currently. However, I suspect they’ll work to address the PC market on their next generation products and I doubt we’re too far from them. Maybe a year or so?