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L.A. Angulo wrote: > Hi gang, > if you were to pick between this 2 to record with > bands at home which one would you choose?what would be > the pro s and cons or which preamps sound better?i > currently own the rme800 which is very nice but i am > being offered an onyx for a very cheap price(about > 599.-eur.) and i am reconsidering,also with the onyx > having more available XLR inputs sends etc.it would > seem easier to have a band just come in plug their > instruments directly and go at it.My other question > is,because of my room space i would probably have to > run a rather long firewire cable,would this have any > effect on latency? Hello, I actually have the rme fireface 800 as well as the onyx 1640. I find that the onyx is great for mixing live music if you need to do a show, and if you want to record that live performance the onyx makes that really simple and it does have pretty nice preamps in it. For actual recording projects which might include overdubs or adding extra tracks where you need to hear a mix of live instruments and recorded tracks, the rme 800 is much more capable. The flexibility and power of totalmix is amazing. Also I find that the rme 800 has not only better preamps, but the converters seem much nicer to me which is even more important for good recording quality. This is why I bought the rme 800: better converters, better preamps, totalmix's powerful flexible routing, and rme's reputation for stable quality software drivers. So if you just want to record the inputs of your mixer live the onyx is great. If you want better preamps and much better A/D and D/A converters along with much more powerful routing capabilities the rme 800 is the winner. When I want the best quality that I can get and I run out of mic inputs on the fireface, I run cables from inserts on the onyx to line inputs on the fireface and that allows me to use the fireface's converters with more mics. For recording bands at home you might need some sort of solution like this since the fireface only has 4 mic inputs. I don't technically know how the firewire cable affects latency, but I would suspect that the effect will be negligible. I imagine that you will have dropouts or other problems if the cable is too long rather than added latency, but I'm not sure. Peace, - Sam Peace, - Sam