What the audio experts won't tell you.
Don't go out investing in an audio studio until you read this:
Recently we decided to record voices for music in our own production studio. I had never looked into professional audio so I went to ask advice and read all I could on the internet. Everytime I asked audio people about getting quality audio they would just give vague answers about "warm sound" and "quality pre amp" and about how only professionals could provide professional sound. Needless to say I believed all this nonesense. Even the sales people got in on the game. What they told me is basically this: to get good audio you need to spend at least one thousand Euros on a top level pre-amp etc... Only top of the line stuff would do. So what did I do? I went in and purchased top of the line stuff. To top it all off, I purchased an Mbox so I could use ProTools. Finally when I tested all this stuff I got AWFUL SOUND. It sounded just flat and ten times worse than what I got earlier by just plugging a dynamic microphone into my creative sound blaster card and listening on my Logitech speakers.
It all went back to the store, especially the Mbox which is just an awful piece of equipment. It has a bad pre amp and will interefere with any other pre amp you plug into it. As a rule of thumb I avoid any USB type solutions. They are just gimmicks.
I went back to the drawing board and wound up spending: 50 euros for Magix Studio, 120 Euros for a pre-amp, and 120 euros for better speakers which I plugged into my 100 euro professional creative sound blaster card. Total bill: 380 Euros. The audio I get is crystal clear and professional.
Everything they told me was ****. If I had gone their way I would have spent 2000 Euros on an Avalon Pre amp, 1200 Euros on Genelec monitoring Speakers, probably 1000 euros on a high end Pro Tools solution and then some on compression modules, mixers, etc.... not to mention the Neuman 87 microphone at 2500 Euros and change. I could have spent close to ten thousand euros. The joke is that the sound would have been no better to a normal ear.
Perhaps what is wrong with me is that I don't smoke enough joints to appreciate the difference but I tell you one thing... there's a lot of B.S out there when it comes to audio. Word to the mother.
Dan, the MBOX is a piece of s... for the following reasons:
(1) It is USB based, and we all know how "professionally" stable USB is... ha ha ha.
(2) It's built in Pre-Amp is a disaster... probably because of the USB configuration. The least one could expect from a pre amp is to get its power from a real plug in the wall.
(3) The MBOX will only work with Pro Tools! This means you can't use it with anything else. Imagine how stupid it looks when the top of the line speakers you purchase for your MBox become totally useless for anything not Pro Tools related.
(4) I tried pro Tools. It is anything but user friendly. You can figure out Cubase and Magix Studio in minutes. I spent half an afternoon trying to record something in Pro Tools. Without instructions you'll never get it. Add to that the fact the interface looks cheap compared to others and you'll put Pro Tools right back in the box where it belongs.
(5) If you finally decide to bypass the cheap Mbox pre amp with a better pre amp (ANY other pre amp) you'll still have to go through the cheap Mbox pre amp which adds noise and possibly level saturation.
When I returned the Mbox to the store I saw a horrified look on the face of the salespeople. They tried every excuse in the book to not have to take it back. Fortunately I kept all the plastic bags.
In conclusion: Digidesign went for a cheap solution and that's what they got: A cheap solution!! I used to think of Pro Tools as the Rolls Royce of audio editing. After the Mbox experience I think of it as the garage sale of editing.
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