{"id":13,"date":"2004-08-01T08:54:01","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-02-17T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T21:14:36","slug":"more-channels-is-more-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2004\/08\/01\/more-channels-is-more-better\/","title":{"rendered":"More channels is more better"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently picked up a Behringer ULTRAGAIN PRO-8 DIGITAL ADA8000<\/a>. It’s basically an 8-in\/8-out audio interface, with mic preamps and phantom power available on every channel. The digital side is an ADAT light-pipe. At CDN$360, it’s probably the cheapest 8-channel A\/D D\/A on the planet. That’s Behringer for you.<\/p>\n

Of course, an ADAT light-pipe interface to the computer is required. Fortunately, my main audio-interface is a much more expensive MOTU 896HD<\/a>, which has ADAT in and out connectors on the rear panel. So, I just added the cheap ADA8000 to my rack, wired it up, and instantly doubled the analog channels in my studio.<\/p>\n

That’s a good thing, because in the past we ran out of channels when we tried to thoroughly mic up the drum set, plus bass and guitar.<\/p>\n

I had some challenges in getting it to go, though. The ADA8000 can generate its own sample clock, or it can get it externally from the ADAT-in pipe, or from a BNC cable. I tried using the ADAT clock option, but I got a lot of clicks and pops. I went and bought a properly spec’d BNC cable and terminator instead, and that seemed to solve my clocking problems, at least for analog-input. I still get some clicks when I try to use the analog outputs, though. Fortunately, I don’t really use the analog outputs much. I have eight outputs already on the MOTU 896HD, and I rarely use any of them. All my effect processing is done by VSTs in software. If I really need to get all 16 analog outputs going, I’ll probably have to spring for a master clock generator.<\/p>\n

Some weaknesses of this device. The phantom-power is an all-or-nothing affair; you can’t turn it on for individual channels. And it is limited to a 48kHz sample rate. The MOTU can go as high as 192kHz. But the Cubase SE software I’m currently using is limited to 48kHz too, so it’s not a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently picked up a Behringer ULTRAGAIN PRO-8 DIGITAL ADA8000. It’s basically an 8-in\/8-out audio interface, with mic preamps and phantom power available on every channel. The digital side is an ADAT light-pipe. At CDN$360, it’s probably the cheapest 8-channel A\/D D\/A on the planet. That’s Behringer for you. Of course, an ADAT light-pipe interface […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}