Message 14/66
Date: 17-Apr-02 @ 02:04 AM -
RE: DDX3216 - Too good to be true?
i diagree. the behringer is $1600, the dm24 is $1899, so you are talking only $350-400 in real money at a store. Now you have to buy a adat card for the behringer and now you have spent as much for less channels and expandability. The routing are only wierd wehn you switch into 96k mode, and then everything is halved. And if you are building a daw, then adat is a good idea. The dakota is exatly what I had in mind. The 2408 is cool piece of kit, but what kind of latency do you get with it? I have never gotten a straight answer from them, and my freind who uses the motu stuff says his latency is high.
If you want a board with lots of digital i/o and the ability to expand later, and even hook it directly up to a protools i/o without any addition hardware. It's a nice mixer. It is certainly more comprehensive the behringer. I think the routing is awsome on it. I like the idea of using the two mic/line's as inserts, so when mixing down you can have audio come from tape or disk via the aes/ebu and use external gear inserted into the channel using the two mic/line connectors on each track. If you have to mix in diferant environments for diferant projects and need to integrate hardware fx with your plugs, this is tight. And you can mix down back to the daw via spidif. this is pretty damn flexible. And with a motu 2408 you have no physical fader to control the channel or surface to work with.
The tascam is geared toward the pro project studio that wants o2r features on a budget with the use of outboard fx or PT integration, and the behringer is marketed toward the prosumer.
I like em both, and the behringer would do just fine for me probabaly and most. It also has the 6 controlers for using it control software synths etc.
It's a tough choice, but i am moving toward the PT setup and outboard gear integrated in. So i made my choice. And 24/48 is all I need.