AVID is dying a slow and painful death

Yes Motu 8 pre

I'm curious to try that out to hear what you're hearing. Are you hearing something that would be a 5% to 10% improvement? I ask because I had done some similar A/B comparison with Avid's Heat and I didn't really consider the difference to be significant enough for the price. I would have given it maybe a 3% improvement. But I was comparing television mixes as opposed to music mixes.

Plus, some engineers and I have fooled ourselves with psycho-acoustics. We have a Rosendahl master clock which was revered by a number of engineers saying that it would give more clarity to mixes. However, they would say how much better it is when they were unaware that they were using the 96IO's internal clock the whole time.

I tend to put more importance on monitors, monitor placement, room treatment, and mixing level than the more subtle improvements mentioned here.

I don't think it's a case of improvement as apposed to a different colour?

if i get time soon i will go thru the same process

  On 3/5/2014 at 3:52 PM, miim said:

I don't think it's a case of improvement as apposed to a different colour?

 

if i get time soon i will go thru the same process

Yeah, that's a good way to put it. Sometimes different doesn't necessarily mean better.

Tip buy a HD1 PCI-X System from Alto Music --USD$199 LOL with PT8HD

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Used-Digidesign-HD-Core-Card-for-PCI-with-Protools-8-Software-/330955880828

You need a 96 or 192 interface about $300-700

For under a grand you run HD1

  On 3/11/2014 at 10:51 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

hang on, if there's a latency why not just shift one of them?

Yes, you can shift tracks to compensate for the 'delay compensation' which is kind of tedious. But if you change any plug-ins in the chain, which might change the delay amount, you need to readjust the track you shifted.

The older TDM systems are still slaves to the maximum 4096 sample delay comp, but the Native, HD Native and HDX systems can go up to 16383 samples which is plenty when mixing. I think they upped the delay comp starting with Pro Tools 9.