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Im probably asking a retarded question but please just humor me anyways.
I may understand quite a bit about sound and all that but setting up gear is a mystery to me. My curiousity has come up with this question:

How do you chain a bunch of high quality 2 input preamps into your DAW so you end up with like 8 or more like a firepod? Can you just run like 8 2 channel preamps into each XLR input on a firepod?

I dont know why this confuses me so much...
My stomache hurts thinking about this stuff...

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bent Tue, 11/13/2007 - 16:31

Any converter that accepts line (or mic) level inputs for use with a DAW.

The Firepod that you mentioned does.

Computers don't understand analog signals, they operate on ones and zeros.

Any rackmount, desktop, or portable device that routes an analog signal into a computer is a converter (more precisely, an Analog to Digital converter).

The ones that do the opposite (run signal out of the DAW) are Digital to Analog converters.