Hi!
Do yiou guys keep all your studio stuff connected 24 hours?
What about MTBF? Aren't we reducing parts lifetime?
I know that it is very stressing for electronic devices if you keep powering it on/off, lots of start-up current transients and so.
I turn off everything if I plan to travel or stay good part of the day out.
wanna hear it from ya.

Seems to be a pretty cool technology this new dynamic phantom powerd microphone.
has anyone had the opportunity to test this gizmo?
:)

Hi All,
I just wander if you have any experience with UAD-1 powered plugins card made by Univesal Audio and distributed by Mackie? I am mixing almost entirely (except that sometimes i reamp or use external reverb) in Logic Audio 5.10, and I'm a bit tired with the sound quality of software plugins. I heard that UAD-1 sounds really great.

Has anyone tried one of these? How do they compare to the R121?

Thanks,

Pete

Has anyone been using the UAD-1 card with LAP
and the new Mac drivers?
Any comments?

Whoa!

Well, I am pretty blown away right now! I got the Universal Audio UAD-1 DSP card with their Powered plugins..Amazing! :) They give you a bunch of presets to get started with, and it is actually pretty logical to tweak once you get started...it just looks kinda intimidating at first!

What's the current best thinking on this from the perspective of equipment longevity? The topic has been much argued for computer equipment, and I'm not sure there's a consensus.

I'm almost certain it depends on the type and build of equipment (e.g. tube vs solid state), environment (avg. temperature & control, power quality), power costs, etc.

So, what do you guys do?

Okey Dokey Boys and Girls.
Let's get ready to rejoice, and dance in the sunshine..who has ordered theirs, and/or actually got their grubby little hands on this mythical card. All of the net dealers are taking orders, but no delivery info seems to be available. I trotted over to Universals web-site just to read the spec's again, and it said :