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I have just acquired a film scoring job, and may need to look at a new soundcard finally. Congrats on your gig. RME has a better sounding converter, IMO. But this is in the realm of the subtle-- so subtle that most systems, rooms and ears would never know the difference. The biggest detractor to MOTU cards, I believe, is the sound of the bundled mic preamps. Its not that they are noisy. They are not. But they are somehow not all that musical. Depth of image..sheen of top end.. just not all there. Even a Mackie Onyx sounded better to my ears. (and I am no fan of Onyx.) Still, I made several great sounding recordings on the MOTU rigs that I have owned -- including film scores and TV work (Mythbusters I did entirely on a Motu rig with cheap preamps!.) As it happens, I recently moved to a Focusrite Sapphire 56-- The sound of the preamps is really great (for the money.) And the Liquid Pre models are useful.. they don't hold a candle to the real thing but they are very, very, good. The driver has been rock solid on both Mac and Windows and router has some very cool features that are unique to focusrite (i.e. Loopback to record audio from any application into your DAW) The problem that I have discovered with Sapphire is that the bundled SW mixer supports only 16 channels. DOH! a 28 input card with 16 channel mixer? Focusrite forget how to count? -- so, I am now back to MOTU 896 as my primary FW interface (It has a robust software mixer with internal effects and clip limiting on each input-- and it can be controlled via my USB controller.) I just use the Sapphire as a set of great sounding preamps. Mark, I have old cards laying around. Contact me off list. I might have something that can meet your needs that wouldn't cost you. D I have just acquired a film scoring job, and may need to look at a new soundcard finally. |