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CraigG58 · 08-05-2019, 02:34 PM

I just received an email from a friend of mine I was querying on the subject, who owns a fully-blown professional studio, also mixes live sound, and is still running an ADA8000. Here's what he had to say, regarding studio recording:

“I changed my setup back to a more traditional way of recording: Mic´s and lines into the mixer, from there to the interfaces. This way I don´t have a problem with latency, which was pretty annoying. I used to have to adjust buffering etc. to get rid of the latency. Now I don´t.

Using the mixer when recording also gives me better control over the gain, and certainly better control over EQ, as the interfaces have only a gain pot per channel, no EQ, not even a attenuation pad on the gain pot.”

The UMC1820 does indeed have an attenuation pad on each channel, but I don't think that would have much to do with latency anyway.

So, as with most things in life, YMMV.

This article has some very interesting, related stuff that I learned a few additional things from:

http://www.basic-home-recording-studio.com/latency.html

08-05-2019, 02:34 PM	#6
CraigG58 Human being with feelings Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: North Port, Florida Posts: 111	I just received an email from a friend of mine I was querying on the subject, who owns a fully-blown professional studio, also mixes live sound, and is still running an ADA8000. Here's what he had to say, regarding studio recording: “I changed my setup back to a more traditional way of recording: Mic´s and lines into the mixer, from there to the interfaces. This way I don´t have a problem with latency, which was pretty annoying. I used to have to adjust buffering etc. to get rid of the latency. Now I don´t. Using the mixer when recording also gives me better control over the gain, and certainly better control over EQ, as the interfaces have only a gain pot per channel, no EQ, not even a attenuation pad on the gain pot.” The UMC1820 does indeed have an attenuation pad on each channel, but I don't think that would have much to do with latency anyway. So, as with most things in life, YMMV. This article has some very interesting, related stuff that I learned a few additional things from: http://www.basic-home-recording-studio.com/latency.html