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Liquid Channel vs Apogee Trak2
- Thread starter Will Lamb
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Well I have demo'ed the Focusrite unit briefly. It is based on Sintefex convolution technology, and is not really comperable to the Apogee pre/converter.
I have some reservations about the Focusrite unit (some may be shocked
) most notably the fact that it adds latency to the signal. The arguments rage on as to whether it can pull off the chameleon thing... to me, at a glance it seemed like it did do some pretty interesting sonic gymnastics. I would be interested if it was two channels and a little cheaper.
cAPS
I have some reservations about the Focusrite unit (some may be shocked
) most notably the fact that it adds latency to the signal. The arguments rage on as to whether it can pull off the chameleon thing... to me, at a glance it seemed like it did do some pretty interesting sonic gymnastics. I would be interested if it was two channels and a little cheaper.cAPS
MASSIVE Mastering
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Well put, cAPS...
I got to demo a unit a while back and pretty much agree with cAPS. I think it has some potential but the latency issue is a problem. Also, the unit seemed to sound considerably better when clocked to 96khz. I'm not sure wether it was because of the samples used for the convolution or the internal digital EQ that made the biggest difference but the EQs in the sintefex fx series DO sound a bit better at 96khz so it was probably both reasons. The price is a bit high too, I agree, but it might be due to the manufacturing costs of that crazy preamp that focusrite has deviced (open the box and take a look inside!).
Cheers!
bManic
Cheers!
bManic
Going with Apogee
After reading replies here and speaking to a bunch of folk I'm going to go with the Trak2. The thing that coverted me was the fact that you're essentially buying software and a processor in a fancy box. OK, so you've got good enough pre-amps, but they're apparently not the best. And you're paying a heck of a lot for something that's got a sell-by date. The latency is also a bit worrying. I guess I figured, get the signal as clean as you can into the DAW, and you can also use stuff like the UAD or non-dynamic IRs to process post hoc if you want to go down that route.
Sintefex surely won't be the only one working on dynamic convolution--maybe a software based product will appear sometime soon (which would be much cheaper one would assume). I'd certainly like to spend time with the Liquid Channel at some point (very hard to find one--even when I was in London a few weeks ago), but the money I saved has gone into a bunch of other hopefully solid gear.
Thanks guys.
W
After reading replies here and speaking to a bunch of folk I'm going to go with the Trak2. The thing that coverted me was the fact that you're essentially buying software and a processor in a fancy box. OK, so you've got good enough pre-amps, but they're apparently not the best. And you're paying a heck of a lot for something that's got a sell-by date. The latency is also a bit worrying. I guess I figured, get the signal as clean as you can into the DAW, and you can also use stuff like the UAD or non-dynamic IRs to process post hoc if you want to go down that route.
Sintefex surely won't be the only one working on dynamic convolution--maybe a software based product will appear sometime soon (which would be much cheaper one would assume). I'd certainly like to spend time with the Liquid Channel at some point (very hard to find one--even when I was in London a few weeks ago), but the money I saved has gone into a bunch of other hopefully solid gear.
Thanks guys.
W