Edirol FA-66 FireWire Interface

worth getting? thinking of making this guy my lappy's numero uno and taking my Audiophile USB to my desktop. senor m-audio just aint powerful enough for me.

I'm using a UA-101 and it's fuckin great. I can't imagine the FA-66 would be worse.

  we_kill_soapscum said:

worth getting? thinking of making this guy my lappy's numero uno and taking my Audiophile USB to my desktop. senor m-audio just aint powerful enough for me.

Is it basically a Soundcard. Tell me its benefits?

  Promo said:

  we_kill_soapscum said:

worth getting? thinking of making this guy my lappy's numero uno and taking my Audiophile USB to my desktop. senor m-audio just aint powerful enough for me.

 

Is it basically a Soundcard. Tell me its benefits?

hooray for: firewire. self powered. limiter. 6in 6out (balanced outs!). mic preamp in x2. direct monitoring. sturdy construction.

im sad for: i dunno...too $$ i suppose, but i can afford this now after working over christmas brizzle

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hooray for: firewire. self powered. limiter. 6in 6out (balanced outs!). mic preamp in x2. direct monitoring. sturdy construction.

 

im sad for: i dunno...too $$ i suppose, but i can afford this now after working over christmas brizzle

Still doesn't explain it to me. Is this like the equivalent of a mixer with all those inputs? Thing is at some point I'm gonna need to get a sound card and I want one which is gonna handle a lot. One which has on board dsp and can handle of lot of fx and vsti and that sort of shit itself. I think Firewall is cool because obviously its faster than usb and you don't have to fuck around installing it in the back of a pc so its effectly a long term investment and piece of equipment if you get the right one. Any views?

Yeah the FA-66 looks really nice. I want to get one as well. It even has MIDI.

Not a great fan of USB soundcards, but I hear the latest stuff is pretty good. I had an Edirol UA 25 that had some clicking issues and a dodgy volume knob. Swaped it for an Echo Indigo (Type II Cardbus card) which is awesome.

Apparently the mic pre-amps are good on the FA-66, neat price too.