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Post by sinasoid on Aug 7, 2014 12:44:42 GMT -6
Anyone have one? We just got one in and it looks like a great recording console. Anyone know what a used one will go for these days?
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Post by Ward on Aug 7, 2014 15:36:24 GMT -6
I have one and use it all the time. It's essentially a controller (a HUI) with a decent sub-mixer, many monitoring capabilities and a really great transport control for a DAW (especially Pro Tools).
The preamps in it are skut.
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Post by sinasoid on Aug 7, 2014 16:43:30 GMT -6
I have one and use it all the time. It's essentially a controller (a HUI) with a decent sub-mixer, many monitoring capabilities and a really great transport control for a DAW (especially Pro Tools). The preamps in it are skut. Yeah, it seems to sync up with Pro Tools with absolute flawless performance. Pretty impressive. Haven't had a chance to test out the preamps. Will have to give them a go at some point. |
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Post by Ward on Aug 7, 2014 16:47:15 GMT -6
Prepare to be EXTREMELY disappointed with them. I would avoid them like the bubonic plague.
BTW, new they ranged from 14 to 15K. Used they're now about about $5 - 7k in good condition.
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Post by sofaking on Sept 1, 2014 22:24:00 GMT -6
Anyone have one? We just got one in and it looks like a great recording console. Anyone know what a used one will go for these days? like mine alot as a controller. the mic amps arent great, the monitor section isnt top notch. but it beats everything currently out there thats remotely in its price range. Its a VAST improvement over the Control 24. best, Sean |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2014 6:49:59 GMT -6
If the preamps are what I think they are (octopre range stuff) then the preamps are just fine, clean and quiet but maybe there's something I'm not aware of regarding this thing. I used to use a Control 24 and was never impressed with it. Personally I think it's awfully expensive for a controller and if I had 5k to burn for a controller it would be going towards a Raven MTi.
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Post by Ward on Sept 2, 2014 9:09:11 GMT -6
Well (Jordo) @jordanvoth, (Sean) sofaking and I both own and use them. Believe me, the preamps are skut! Totally useless. The monitoring section isn't bad. Not fantastic but not bad. You have to watch you don't overload the submixer and watch the gainstaging, else your mixes won't truly sound like what's coming out of the C|24's monitoring module. The transport and editing controls are fantastic and fully integrated with Pro Tools. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 18:24:42 GMT -6
Hey ward,
Are they noisy or something? Does anyone know if they are indeed the Octopre range preamps?
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Post by RicFoxx on Sept 4, 2014 6:45:00 GMT -6
I was sitting in with an engineer named Michael Roric in Buffalo New York he was recording a jazz group with a female vocalist using nothing but the C 24 and it sounded absolutely fantastic. He used the preamps and they were clean and quiet of course he was using top-notch Mics. I couldn't believe it because when you read all these forums it seems you can only get good sound with outboard preamps. He told me that day to stop reading forums all day and work on your craft because it is an exciting time in making music with all the cheap great gear.
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Post by tonycamphd on Sept 4, 2014 9:50:35 GMT -6
I was sitting in with an engineer named Michael Roric in Buffalo New York he was recording a jazz group with a female vocalist using nothing but the C 24 and it sounded absolutely fantastic. He used the preamps and they were clean and quiet of course he was using top-notch Mics. I couldn't believe it because when you read all these forums it seems you can only get good sound with outboard preamps. He told me that day to stop reading forums all day and work on your craft because it is an exciting time in making music with all the cheap great gear. Like the "top notch mics" he was using? Imagine how great it've sounded if he used a rack of great pres 8) I don't care what anyone says, with an unpro rig, u are not going to touch an equal talent with a pro rig. Gear matters. |
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Post by RicFoxx on Sept 4, 2014 10:51:41 GMT -6
I was sitting in with an engineer named Michael Roric in Buffalo New York he was recording a jazz group with a female vocalist using nothing but the C 24 and it sounded absolutely fantastic. He used the preamps and they were clean and quiet of course he was using top-notch Mics. I couldn't believe it because when you read all these forums it seems you can only get good sound with outboard preamps. He told me that day to stop reading forums all day and work on your craft because it is an exciting time in making music with all the cheap great gear. Like the "top notch mics" he was using? Imagine how great it've sounded if he used a rack of great pres 8) I don't care what anyone says, with an unpro rig, u are not going to touch an equal talent with a pro rig. Gear matters. i would usually agree but it was probably as good as I've heard. The guy is an amazing engineer!. |
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Post by Ward on Sept 4, 2014 12:06:09 GMT -6
Hey ward, Are they noisy or something? Does anyone know if they are indeed the Octopre range preamps? If they are the octo pre range preamps, then the octo pres blow pretty bad. They easily distort...I mean, like REALLY easily. They sound brittle in the top end. The HPF should be renamed the 'suck the life, body and soul out of your source' filter. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 15:53:38 GMT -6
I never heard any of these things out of my Octopre, colourless and quiet was a more accurate description of them. Never loved them but I never really hated them.
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