RME fireface 400

Hello everyone_

I want as good a sound as I can afford , and so I'm thinking of getting the Fireface 400. I'm Currently using the M-audio firewire solo. My question is: Will
getting the Fireface really improve things alot? A $1,000 dollars is too much for me to spend unless the improvement is dramatic.

Thanks in advance for your wisdom.

RealDave

Dual 1.8 G5, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 4 Gigs Memory Firewire Solo

Posted on Jun 18, 2007 11:31 PM

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Jun 19, 2007 6:15 PM in response to John Alcock

Thanks to everyone who took the time to give me feedback. I'm a Computer tech by trade so maybe I can help someone with Computer hardware questions sometime . Although most of you seem to be pretty savy on all fronts already. Right now my monitors are Alesis M1Active520. They seem pretty good for the price, although I know they're not even close to the high end. I'm using the RODE NT4-1 for my mic. Again I know I can do alot better here also. Re: mindprint optical, this is an interesting idea but after I saw what it looked like I know it would drive me insane ( it's a short trip anyway) looking at that thing all the time. LOL ugly red and weird shape. But thanks
for the suggestion John. 2 years ago when I started recording my songs with Logic I was very pleased with the sound I was getting, but that fantasy vanished very quickly, now the sound is never quite good enough. The curse
of almost knowing what I'm doing is upon me now and I can't seem to shake it. LOL

Thanks again for all the help guys

RealDave__

Jun 20, 2007 4:33 AM in response to Rik-The-Mix

I only have a FW 400 drive..would it still be worth it to spring for the FF800, considering that, in the next year or so, I'll be purchasing a Mac Pro? Would the FF800 be totally useless to me right now?

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