In these sad and troubled times...

[Bobro]

In these sad and troubled times for the company Alesis, I'd like to take a moment to say how much I love my little Nanobass, which cost next to nothing and is a real trooper.

 

My colleague whose studio is ADAT based has great timing- his ADAT choked three days ago!

 

3-4 weeks and several hundred dollars to fix for a unit that has served well but had it's day- time to change to a different approach, but what?

 

-CB

[dansouth]

How much is he willing to spend? Does he have a computer that's less than two years old? How many simultaneous inputs and outputs does he need?

 

I would look seriously at the Korg D-series recorders. The new ones (D1600, D12) are reasonably priced, and the old ones (D16, D8) are selling at deep discounts. The AW4416 is awesome, but it's more expensive. If you have a late model Mac or PC with a FireWire port (IEEE 1394), consider picking up a MOTU 868. I've heard nothing but good things about them and just bought one, myself.

 

Check Roger Nichols' forum for more recording gear ideas.

[Dave Bryce]

Originally posted by Bobro:

In these sad and troubled times for the company Alesis, I'd like to take a moment to say how much I love my little Nanobass, which cost next to nothing and is a real trooper.

 

A majorly under-rated piece of gear. I LOVE my NanoBass - I use it all the time. It's the only one of the three nano-modules with an original ROM set that doesn't show up in any other Alesis product.

 

If any of you ever get a chance to play with one, check it out. I'll bet it'll surprise you!

 

dB

[Bobro]

Originally posted by dansouth@yahoo.com:

How much is he willing to spend? Does he have a computer that's less than two years old? How many simultaneous inputs and outputs does he need?

 

I would look seriously at the Korg D-series recorders. The new ones (D1600, D12) are reasonably priced, and the old ones (D16, D8) are selling at deep discounts. The AW4416 is awesome, but it's more expensive. If you have a late model Mac or PC with a FireWire port (IEEE 1394), consider picking up a MOTU 868. I've heard nothing but good things about them and just bought one, myself.

 

Check Roger Nichols' forum for more recording gear ideas.

 

Thanks, dansouth.

 

For someone who's used ADATs for ten years and is in the middle of producing and recording a group...ouch! Well, looks like he's renting a unit to tide him over but then there's the long term.

 

It's a question of the whole approach- if he keeps working in the same way, it's the HD24 or something along those lines, if he goes to computer harddisk it means a new computer and most importantly a different way of thinking.

 

The fundamental question he's discussing with me is- to see or not to see?

 

IMO opinion there is a great musical advantage to NOT being able to see what you are doing when making music and recording- after a couple of years of computer recording, I find that my eyes just get in the way, I'd rather just arrange and track "blind", and use the computer for softsynths and editing. Sick and tired of looking at the music, I'd rather just hear it and look at naked ladies or something.

 

So actually my 2 cents to him is to replace the ADAT with a better machine and keep working the way he does, not go the direct to harddisk route I did.

 

 

Hm, maybe that's not very clear but I'm sure some people agree on the distinction. Anyway, that's the fork in the road my friend is at. The gear itself won't be a problem once he's decided which course to take, there's so much good stuff cheap these days, it's amazing.

 

Hey, this is something for a new thread.

 

-CB