grawk

Bit depth isn't what's important, and isn't resolution. Bit depth determines dynamics, and 16 bits is 96db. If you can't fit the dynamic range in 96db, you're fucked anyway, because that's from below normal room sound to jumbo jet taking off. As to resolution, 192khz will have more of the harmonics, so could theoretically sound better than 96khz. But it'd be really subtle. REALLY subtle.

grawk would get in trouble if this topic showed up in google [iurl]http://www.head-case.org/index.php?topic=2724.0[/iurl]

Hey, finally you post a real picture

penguins have trouble with precision layouts

FAKER!!!

a bunch of stuff from lush. My christmas shopping is done.

[me=grawk]pulls out the banstick and beats ojnihs with it [/me]

And everyone in alabama takes august off to drink.

He's in alabama, it's still august there.

Heh, I have maybe 75 hockey pucks floating through my house

That said, 86.4% of statistics are made up. And most external dacs are better than the dacs used in consumer gear, therefore, given the two issues here, I'd say you're flat out full of shit.

flats suck, use turnips.

Except the only place the short bus takes you is to school...

If you want something recorded, lemme know. I'll see what i can do to help. I don't own gear anymore, but have lots of friends in the area who still do.

how the digital signal arrives is irrelevant to whether or not it's balanced. Balanced means differential drive, where it outputs + and - for each channel, rather than +/ground.

3 six packs of 24 oz bottles of diet pepsi 3 gallons of milk a case of raison d'etra from dogfish head brewery a bottle of rye

Omnis are extremely hard to get a great recording with, because they pick up everything. But they capture the sound in the best way, so when you CAN use them, you really should. There's a lot of options when it comes to making a good recording, and a lot to take into account. The setup I mentioned, with the subcard and the figure 8, comes VERY close to my ideal setup in most rooms, which is why it's what i mostly used. You can tweak the recording after the fact to use more or less side, depending on the accoustics of the room, shift the image left or right, etc. It takes real world into account in a very useful way. Omnis are for ideal situations, for playback and recording. If I could, I'd build my house so that I could use omni speakers... If you want to see some REALLY cool recording gear, check out the soundfield ST350. It's a 4 point recording system that captures everything you need for surround on all 3 axis. I REALLY want one, but a 4 channel recorder and a $5500 microphone aren't in the cards right now.

I would expect omnis to do an excellent job of imaging, but would be HIGHLY placement dependent. Ideal would be in the middle of a very large room. It would of course be recording dependent as well. As a recordist, my absolute favorite rock recordings were made with omni mics, placed very wide, for an outdoor concert. That said, most rooms had shitty reflections, and so you had to compensate with microphones of varying directionality. I tended to record with a technique known as mid-side, using a subcard (nearly omni, rejects about 90 directly to the rear, but gets almost everything else, and a figure 8 microphone, which records the left and right sounds rejecting the 90 degrees front and 90 degrees rear. Mix them together, and you get a very sweet, encompassing sound that is easy to reproduce with most stereos.

It does if you add the "minime" option

global warming for the win.

oh, I thought this was the "snow forum"

I bought my apogee for it's usb input . More specifically, I bought it because it would take a digital input, and send that signal to the computer via the usb. But I wouldn't have gotten it if it didn't sound good. I love multitasking boxes.

Drinking is hardly necessary, imho. I probably won't have as much as I'm suggesting . Good company is fun, with or without social lubricants.

Oh, and I won a tomahawk. WTF am I gonna do with a portable amp? [me=grawk]donates it to chiunifi.[/me]

Wow, there was so much gear, I barely listened to anything. I think I talked to people, but I was drunk. I'm pretty sure I have at least as much stuff as I did when I showed up, but some of these clothes don't look like mine. Anyway, it was a good time. Postdate as necessary.