hi,
can 2 digital S/PDIF pieces be connected by your average analog rca cable?

also 1 more, is there a quality loss or reason why you should not use an XLR to unbalanced 1/4" cable to connect gear to a patchbay. ie: balanced in/out of DA-30 to an unbalanced patchbay?

-anthony

During the last few weeks I have been sitting until late hours reading many threads in order to know and decide what could be the best audio setup for optimizing "vocals" needed for professional radio commercials.

I was thinking of buying a dbx 386 ttp://www.zzounds.com/ite…

and running S/PDIF out of it into 'Brand X' soundcard's S/PDIF input (for simple guitar/voice recordings - I am the ONLY client - lol)

Or should I buy a FMR Audio or M-Audio PreAmp and run the signal analog to 'Brand X' soundcard's XLR or 1/4' inputs.

Anyone know someone in Chicago who can do a digital transfer for me? I've got drum tracks on 1/2" 8 track analog that I would like sampled as .wav's at 88.2 / 24. It's not too easy to find a studio with a 1/2" 8track machine. Thanks

Which brands do you use/recommend.

Is Apogee just another "re-badged" cable. Curious about these.

I'm getting a DAC-1 in soon... what would be best way to connect to a MOTU 828 (upgrading this too, as soon as it sells) for the back-end of my studio?

Bowisc

So, the other day I had a long discussion with a friend who is learning engineering. He says that analog is way superior to digital in every way bla blab blah..you have heard this before I'm sure. I replied that, of course there are numerous differences in the reproduction of the sound, from a business perspective digital is king.

hi...i would like to buy new hard discs...i've heard western digital ata 100 7200 rpm 8 mb cache are good but are lit bit more expensive than seagate barracada 4 ata 100 7200 rpm which are good and for good price too...well what do you think guys?...actualy if the western digital are better maybe i'll go for it...
but i really want you to help me in this case...please...

hi there,
i need a preamp in front of my ad-converter.
ich have the rme-multiface and do the mix in my Cubase in realtime. but there is the need of a analog-like headroom like from a mackie-console. direct converted it sounds not so fat espescially the bass-sounds.
i need it mainly for my synth so not a mic preamp and 8 chanels.

I hope this is the right forum, I saw hardware and went for it.

anyone know where i can find more reviews of this item? i have done a number of searches via google, etc and have not found too many reviews.

anyone here own or have experience with this line of mixer?

i have an opportunity to get one and am curious about its quality.

the concept looks good but does it deliver in either a studio or live setting?

thx