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Old 07-26-2013, 12:14 AM   #41
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And @ georgethedifferent, a belated 'welcome to the forum'! I hope you stick around and help some folks out as you're obviously a knowledgable and talented engineer
Thank you Stu, however I'm more a musician + wannabe-producer + able to record my own band from scratch and happy to record my friends in the meantime.

I wish I had those WSW pres but they are my friend's who also owns that studio. We did that session together, it was just months after the studio opened and we both were intensively learning. It's been years now and despite he's got really great space, £8k monitors, selection of top mikes (Schoeps, several Neumanns - including a pair of U87), genuine LA2A (no plugin comes close BTW!), etc. yet he didn't buy a desk. I'm sure he will not do until he can afford a Neve Part of my knowledge comes from his experience.

My modest studio is built around 2 RME Multifaces + a couple of Quadmics which I'm not 100% satisfied with but it's still hard to judge the core reason, unless you record top studio musicians so the only one to blame is the engineer and his stuff...
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Old 08-21-2013, 12:35 PM   #42
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Zed r16 arrives today. Thanks for all the input. I'm really looking forward to it, this will be a great upgrade from a m-audio profire 2626.
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Old 08-24-2013, 01:23 PM   #43
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Zed r16 arrives today. Thanks for all the input. I'm really looking forward to it, this will be a great upgrade from a m-audio profire 2626.
Cool. Do let us all know how you get on with it. :-)
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Old 08-24-2013, 07:40 PM   #44
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Certainly. So far it's really cool. I haven't done any tracking, but getting it set up as a midi controller was pretty painless thanks to a tutorial that was posted by another reaper user (bbgunn, good looking out buddy!). I've mapped a ton of stuff to it so far, mixed a little, and tried to wrap my head around the anologue summing thing.
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Old 12-09-2013, 08:00 PM   #45
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Certainly. So far it's really cool. I haven't done any tracking, but getting it set up as a midi controller was pretty painless thanks to a tutorial that was posted by another reaper user (bbgunn, good looking out buddy!). I've mapped a ton of stuff to it so far, mixed a little, and tried to wrap my head around the anologue summing thing.
So it's been a few months. How are things coming along with your R16? I've been looking at this mixer as my upgrade path since it first came out. Since, I've been using a Ramsa WR-S4424 and a Presonus Firestudio Project. As I look at upgrading my interface to an Echo Audiofire 12 (~$600) I could get to 16 channels in/out and have conversion at least as good as the AF12 with a Zed R16. Time to save up!

I'm looking forward to hear what you've worked on.
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Old 12-10-2013, 04:55 PM   #46
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It's working out great so far. Tracking is as simple as it could be, and having a 100hz hpf accessible for each track is nice. I love zero latency monitoring. That makes a big difference to me.

Routing back through the board is simple, but I have to admit that I'm a little gun-shy to put an important job back through it. I'm too used to itb work. But, I'll get over it eventually.

I'm still finishing work that was partially recorded on my old setup, so there's not a lot of material that was recorded exclusively on this rig, but I'll post something soon.
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Old 01-29-2014, 05:18 AM   #47
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Well I want to stay analogue so have looked at analogue desks with firewire of which only a couple are suitable, the ZED R16 and Mackie Onyx 1640i......
Sorry to bring up an older thread, but I was searching for info on the Zed R16 and found this thread and this comment interesting (alarming)...

Don't want to sound like I am bashing you or being negative. I am curious to your comment since I seen later in the thread you stated you were a student in college studying audio... My issue is with analog to digital. I am not a audio scientist, but logically (and common sense) would make me believe that if you maintain pure analog, everything must remain analog, down to the mix (ie. tape). Otherwise, you are defeating your purpose because the mix is going to be converted to digital anyway and your theory of analog is not correct. Tracking analog in firewire/usb will A/D regardless.
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Old 01-30-2014, 02:36 AM   #48
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Maintaining true analog recordings is pretty much impossible these days. I don't think that's the point. The OP is looking for a character piece. One that adds a unique sonic footprint while improving and speeding up workflow.
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Old 09-15-2019, 02:47 PM   #49
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It's working out great so far. Tracking is as simple as it could be, and having a 100hz hpf accessible for each track is nice. I love zero latency monitoring. That makes a big difference to me.

Routing back through the board is simple, but I have to admit that I'm a little gun-shy to put an important job back through it. I'm too used to itb work. But, I'll get over it eventually.

I'm still finishing work that was partially recorded on my old setup, so there's not a lot of material that was recorded exclusively on this rig, but I'll post something soon.

Hi, BLS (and hopefully other ZED R16 users). Glad to see you were happy with your purchase and putting the ZED to good use. I've been using a ZED R16 for a little while now, and for the most part I'm very happy with how it sounds and the flexibility it offers.

I do have one issue that I can't seem to figure out, so I'm hoping you or other users can point me in the right direction. You mention "zero latency" and my thought was that I'd be able to get there with this desk as well. I'm not entirely sure if the latency issue I'm having is due to the standard buffer size adjustments, etc. OR... if I'm not utilizing the ZED properly and monitoring as I should be when doing overdubs.

For example, I record a drum track, then go to record guitar or piano over it. I play the drums back from the DAW but hear latency on either my current incoming signal, or possibly both that and the existing track.

I BELIEVE for overdubs, I should be disabling the "DIG MASTER" button for my headphones so I can hear the track I'm recording from the mixer before it goes to the DAW and back. However, I need to hear the existing tracks from the DAW on my headphones to play over them.

Can any of you tell me your workflow for this? I'm sure there's a simple solution as this desk is made for home recording, but I cannot seem to get the hang of this part of it.

THANKS IN ADVANCE for anyone who takes a minute to help me out here.
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