The biggest problem I've had with the other products was the driver stability.With the Phonic,my system never crashes and I always get very good recordings, I do use different pre amps for vocals but that's it. I'm presently recording with the Phonic Helix 12 firewire MK II Here is a list of units I've either owned or tried.ġ. I would like to start out by saying, this is not my first time around the block. For actual audio recording, you will need some preamps, but don't worry, it has direct in's
I think it's great for the application of looking big, recording live, and getting good loud DA for playing VST's. So you can actually get your Avalon (or w/e) to go through this to get a hella spectacular channel. When you have better outboard pre's, you can bypass them unlike other mixers in this range. Put some good loud monitors next to it and no one but you can realize the crappy preamps.Īnd that leads me to my last point. I don't know if I love it, but everyone that is not an audiophile thinks it's the greatest thing ever. With this, I was able to DA good enough to sell some beats for about $400. The DA is not perfect, I mean, if you have good headphones or its high on the main you will hear some fuzz, but hell, it's good enough for you to monitor for a cheap price. O ya, did you mention, you can record live? I mean, that hooked me up with ppl paying for me to go see them live, n just have me put my mixer infront of the house mixer.
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It looks professional and it doesn't say Behringer. I'm young, and I needed to establish legitamacy to get customers, and this is a hella ez way. Now, I learned how good of a buy it was because of other reasons. But heres the thing, I needed 16 tracks to go sepparately into the DAW, how much cheaper can you go? and this was when the multimix firewire costed $800, and it only had 8 mic pres on it. I have a alesis multimix-8 usb, and alesis has much better preamps. I got it for $450 off of ebay, and it's done great. Well, i have a firewire-24 mkII and you know, its good for the price.