but I have never owned a beagle. it's just my nickname...

 
Well, life ain't over yet... go to the pound and get one!
 
Julien

jbow

but I have never owned a beagle. it's just my nickname...

 
Well, life ain't over yet... go to the pound and get one!
 
Julien

oh, no!  they're loud!! and I already have 2 dogs and my wife says after these are gone we're not getting more!

my wife says after these are gone we're not getting more!

 
My wife says the same thing, laff. (the cat too)
 
Julien
 

listening to them howl and bay at the rabbits was unmistakable

 
And probably unsleepable (as we have been with a couple of black labs lately!)
 
Brian

As a user of the Octa Capture since it came out, I am about to let it go..... I do love the Auto Sens feature and thats one of the only reasons I have kept it around for so long.

Now that I want to start using outboard gear I am so limited with the Octa Capture. 1 thing that I think is terrible is there is noway to bypass the mic pre's. I recently purchased a Tc Helicon Voicelive Rack and no matter what I do the signal is to hot! If I turn down the mic pre's on the Octa Capture you no longer hear the effect. I might take some heat for this but I am switching to a Presonus 16.0.2. which has 4 Aux inputs for some rack gear. I will also use the board live as well so it serves two purposes.

I love my octa capture-works great with my new asus laptop.
As far as bypassing preamps-I need to look at that, but I can say that recording direct (AxeFXII) using my Echo Layla3G and then doing the same, same settings, the octacaprure recording IMHO is better (crisper, more natural) sounding-Just sounds better, but I do use the 1st 2 inputs that are designated Hi impedance. I really bought it for the outputs because I only need inputs for my guitar(s) and my vocal.
 
I will try recording on one of the other inputs and see how they compare.
 
That would be a drag I imagine for most, but for me it works.

What if you ran things through a decent mixer and then into to Octa? Would that take care of the hotness?

While I think the Octo looks very cool with all the XLR's,I'd definitely like to to see a Round Trip Latency comparo,as I'm sure that ANYTHING RME makes is going to be hard to beat for that.

I'm on my 3rd USB interface in a year or so,and was all set to babyface it,but dentist bills etc and I ended up with the N.I. KA6 which is excellent for the price.

I can't say anything about Octa-Capture, however:

I can really really recommend babyface! ..Or rather.. I really recommend RME as a company!

Last week I had to replace my old RME HDSP9652 (PCI) that I bought in 2004.
The reason for this was NOT that it's not supported anymore.. They still update the drivers for it!! (!)

The reason why I had to update was that I also bought a new motherboard and I couldn't find a motherboard I wanted that also had a PCI-slot.. And since I loved the stability and reliability of my old 9652-card so much I replace it with the RME HDSPe RayDAT (which basicly is an updated PCIe version of the 9652)

When investing in an RME prduct you can be sure you'll be well taken care of as a customer! They won't forget you after their next audio-device release (as many other big companies seem to do)

I have an RME and I like it. Be careful of auto-setting the gain. My RME has 4 channels that have AutoSet feature. This works well if you keep your eye on it, but you wouldn't want the opening of a beer can to cause the gain to drop. Or turning off a wireless microphone (and subsequent white noise) to push the level down. So I find autoset is useful for the few minutes when you would normally be setting the level and then you might want to turn it off.

It could save you if it were on and the musician changed how he was using the mic. Suddenly moved a vocal mic in front of a guitar amp. Be careful though. This can hurt as much as it helps if there is a noise spike that is not related to the music you want to capture.

I can record a whole bunch of tracks now. If I wire up everything I can record 18 tracks concurrently. I find there are times that I want to do a whole bunch. It isn't often, but it's nice to have extra inputs when you want them. That said, I rarely use more than 6 inputs.

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I bought my UCX from a local store, but they matched this price which made it affordable. The UCX has onboard compressors and reverbs that are helpful.