8xAnalog to ADAT interface (2 Viewers)

[Beanstalk]

At the moment my non-existant budget is steering me towards the Behringer ADA8000 ...Its on Thomann for €239. I plan mostly to use it for accepting line inputs from a desk while for recording live gigs so I'm not that concerned about the quality of the pre's but twould be nice if the pre's were half decent for recording in the future. Anyone have any experience with this St. Bernards bit of kit?

Or is it worth investing the extra cash in the Octopre LE at €489...can't afford it right now, but if the ADA8000 is muck I guess I have no choice...although would seem a waste getting all those nice pre's if I never really use them.


Whats the difference between the Octopre and OctoPre LE...apart from 400 spons?


Also can anyone linkage me the optical cable required to hook up the Digi002R with either the Behringer or Octopre?

 

[aoboa]

Shockingly enough, the Behringer has got pretty good reviews:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun....htm?session=b1f1ebeb648ad3cb14daa9145589f288

I normally avoid behringer (although I think their composers and gates are pretty good) but the ada8000 seems to be a real jewel for the money.

 

[Pantone247]

The Behringer ADA8000 gets nice things said about it, if you search the lo-fi board on Gear Slutz I believe it was nominated "The only piece of Behringer Gear Worth Bothering With"...nice to see even the lo fi people can afford to snobby shits too...

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php?t=37821&page=3

and...

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/archive/index.php/t-24209.html

 

[aoboa]

Also can anyone linkage me the optical cable required to hook up the Digi002R with either the Behringer or Octopre?

Should be a standard ADAT lightpipe cable.
Something like this:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProfessionalOpticalCable-main.html

 

[Pantone247]

I normally avoid behringer (although I think their composers and gates are pretty good) but the ada8000 seems to be a real jewel for the money.

did you mention you use their VAmps somewhere?

 

[Beanstalk]

Cheers lads...great to hear that the "Dunnes Stores" of the recording world has churned out a nice piece of kit, and at a decent price.

Look like its going on the christmas present list. .|..|



So here's Pauper question no. 1...which pre-amp would be better/less-shit...the ones on the digi002 or the Behringer?

 

[aoboa]

did you mention you use their VAmps somewhere?

Oh yeah
I have a V-amp - It's decent enough once you avoid all the fx and stuff (they're seriously noisy).
There are three sounds I use on it. I've got a Pod XT too and I only use 3 sounds on that too.

 

[aoboa]

Cheers lads...great to hear that the "Dunnes Stores" of the recording world has churned out a nice piece of kit, and at a decent price.

Look like its going on the christmas present list. .|..|



So here's Pauper question no. 1...which pre-amp would be better/less-shit...the ones on the digi002 or the Behringer?

Hard to say without doing an a/b comparison. Something for you to do over the christmas holidays

 

[Pantone247]

Cheers lads...great to hear that the "Dunnes Stores" of the recording world has churned out a nice piece of kit, and at a decent price.

Look like its going on the christmas present list. .|..|

I metion the VAmps above cause I picked up their bass version, which includes a few guitar amps and some keyboard stuff too, while I'm not sold on amp modelling in general, I really can't fault the sounds out of this thing... some really nice usable stuff, with sensible effects that aren't just toys.... and shredding along with the Messa Rectfier sound is too much fun... I was anxious about the whole Behringer thing, but it's grand like...

The only downside is it feels like if you sneezed at it too hard it'd probably fall apart... no harm, it's saying right on my desk for the most part.

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

I got a Motu 828 mk-II for this job.. but then again, I don't need 8 more pres, just 8 more analog outs.
Got my optical cable in that gadgetry place on George's street.

 

[Beanstalk]

Hard to say without doing an a/b comparison. Something for you to do over the christmas holidays

Jingle Bells Digi002.wav

vs

Jingle Bells Behringer.wav


Its on .|..|.

 

[Beanstalk]

I got a Motu 828 mk-II for this job.. but then again, I don't need 8 more pres, just 8 more analog outs.
Got my optical cable in that gadgetry place on George's street.

So you're using the MOTU 828 just as your analog-ADAT converter for the digi002?

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

No, Adat to analog for mixy-poos.