Best 8 channel mic pre with digital outs?

Really depends on your budget and application, products from either of the companies you listed will give you better sonics than what you have now. For a slightly different take you could get into Apogee or RME as well.

There you're getting into more of a premium A/D converter so it depends on the source material (among other things of course)whether the extra fidelity is worth the extra dollars.

Robert

 

Keep in mind that you're talking about two distinct functions. Eight channels of pres PLUS eight channels of converters in one inexpensive unit are not going to be stellar quality. If you don't really need eight channels at once you might be better off sinking the same money into two channels of better quality.

Apogee has something called a Mini Me which has 2 channels of preamps, compressors and converters. I've never used it but I've seen them around a couple of Nashville studios. Might be just the thing...?

Out of five pieces of PreSonus gear purchased by members of my family, two were defective out of the box and had to be exchanged while three became either partially or completely useless less than a year out of warranty. I'll never buy another PreSonus piece.

 

The Focusrite Octopre is good from what I've heard.

Behringer also make a cheap and cheerful one if you are on a tight budget.

 

>>but it might be overkill for the Roland 1880<<

I'd say so.

But to each his own.

 

I heard that too.

 

Focusrite Octopre is CRAP. I had one for a while and it's not something I would recommend.

 

Truth is, that's closer to what I actually heard.

I just wanted to find a half-year-old thread and revive it with a "me too." Seems to be the trend here, so I thought I'd go with the flow.

 

How about this... I really like my PreSonus Eureka, but never tried one of these:

 

The Mackie Onyx 800r has been getting some decent reviews. I don't have one but have been using a CZ1604 VLZ Pro with the XDR pre's for a long time and they sounds fine. I a/b'd with my Avalon ST737sp and there wasn't much difference.

The Onyx 8004 pres are supposed to be better than the 1604s.

It has 8 channels of pre's and 192khz digital out but I don't know anything about the quality of the converters.

For the price (around 1 grand) it is probably worth a listen anyway.

DAB

 

Dude... why would you want another preamp when you had that great gear all along?

 

good man! SO much better than the octopoossie & presanus!


ml

 

Geez, I could have told you that last year. That's exactly how you use the 1880. The digital mixer on the 1880 is pretty good for home studio usage. As you now know, you are limited to 2 digital channels input thru the back of the box. So I wasn't sure why you were needing an 8 channel pre with converters, unless you were mixing the 8 channels down to 2 at the mic pre then going in 2 channels digital to the 1880.

 

Nobody´s mentioned the Behringer ADA8000.

Really a nice piece of gear for a great price.

Don´t let the name fool you, sometimes they like to sneek something good by us.