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Post by drew571 on Mar 10, 2015 8:52:57 GMT -6
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Post by drew571 on Mar 10, 2015 11:02:38 GMT -6
i mean, i can see how it would improve the 002, but is there really a drastic amount of room for improvement on a device like the orion? seems to get great reviews already....
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Post by tonycamphd on Mar 10, 2015 11:29:56 GMT -6
amongst others, i've demo'd a 32, there is a lot of room for improvement IMO, my BLA 002 made it sound bad. They loaded it up with some mehh op amps, their psu is rather poultry for 8 channels per chip, it seemed low ceilinged to me and choked up with track count, if you getting this for multichannel mixing on a console, the upgrade will more than likely help it a lot, if i was a singer songwriter in need of no more than 10 simultaneous channels, i'd get a BLA sig modded FM clocked 002 on PT11 and be done, you will be VERY hard pressed to find a better sounding rig at any price as of today, my second choice(un demo'd by me, but owned by some trustworthy folks) would be the new motu line, dandeurloo had his juiced up by bla as well, it will be very interesting to hear his thoughts, he's a VERY trustworthy source of info IME 8)
hope this helps
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Post by porkyman on Mar 10, 2015 23:32:21 GMT -6
amongst others, i've demo'd a 32, there is a lot of room for improvement IMO, my BLA 002 made it sound bad. They loaded it up with some mehh op amps, their psu is rather poultry for 8 channels per chip, it seemed low ceilinged to me and choked up with track count, if you getting this for multichannel mixing on a console, the upgrade will more than likely help it a lot, if i was a singer songwriter in need of no more than 10 simultaneous channels, i'd get a BLA sig modded FM clocked 002 on PT11 and be done, you will be VERY hard pressed to find a better sounding rig at any price as of today, my second choice(un demo'd by me, but owned by some trustworthy folks) would be the new motu line, dandeurloo had his juiced up by bla as well, it will be very interesting to hear his thoughts, he's a VERY trustworthy source of info IME 8) hope this helps its been my understanding the 002 doesnt work in PT11. Avid's not supporting the drivers to run with 11. am i wrong, because i can get one pretty cheap. |
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Post by tonycamphd on Mar 11, 2015 0:51:26 GMT -6
amongst others, i've demo'd a 32, there is a lot of room for improvement IMO, my BLA 002 made it sound bad. They loaded it up with some mehh op amps, their psu is rather poultry for 8 channels per chip, it seemed low ceilinged to me and choked up with track count, if you getting this for multichannel mixing on a console, the upgrade will more than likely help it a lot, if i was a singer songwriter in need of no more than 10 simultaneous channels, i'd get a BLA sig modded FM clocked 002 on PT11 and be done, you will be VERY hard pressed to find a better sounding rig at any price as of today, my second choice(un demo'd by me, but owned by some trustworthy folks) would be the new motu line, dandeurloo had his juiced up by bla as well, it will be very interesting to hear his thoughts, he's a VERY trustworthy source of info IME 8) hope this helps its been my understanding the 002 doesnt work in PT11. Avid's not supporting the drivers to run with 11. am i wrong, because i can get one pretty cheap. it's not officially supported, but it works perfectly well. |
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Mar 11, 2015 4:20:45 GMT -6
a buddy of mine is selling his symphony and buying an Orion so he can have 32CH of summing via an Equinox. To his ears, the orion was more honest than the symphony, in that the symphony was really colored. He sent me some audio clips of vocals he tracked thru both. To me, the orion was like an API type sound, and the Symphony was a Neve type sound. he tracked them with a Manley Reference. I'm keeping my symphony, as I like the color of it. and you can't beat the bottom end on it.
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Post by rickcarson on Mar 11, 2015 7:36:11 GMT -6
I had an Orion. I sold that thing fast. The dudes who ears I trust who actually ending up keeping the thing have it paired with that crazy 10k atomic clock. Im asuming that makes it better although I can just speak from my experience which is that it did not work for me sound wise. I replaced it with BLA Fm and XM 192's. Very happy with them.
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