MOTU 8pre test and opinion about model

Visiting UK for gig I was lucky to purchase MOTU 8pre card by great firm MOTU. $1155 is not high for me, anyway for that cost pretty hard to take card like this. I think this firewire sound card of MOTU is coolest in competition, and MOTU 8pre is really easy to operate.

I needed firewire sound card and MOTU 8pre is wonderful model! Musical electronic by MOTU are very great and $1155 is good. We have studio monitors, and that MOTU 8pre. I'm big fan of Equator company. Speakers cost is good.

 I dreamed to test this sound card in my new headphones Sennheiser HD 428. And Sennheiser fits with soundcard perfectly.
 In my studio I borrowed GIBSON J-165 ROSEWOOD guitar ($3028) and next week I'll finish examples. (also recorded with my TAKAMINE F250SM PRO guitar). Second guitar is cost about $2466. Tried record guitar with dynamic mic Sennheiser E 904 and good result did not surprised me. I knew that Sennheiser manufacturer doing very good mics. My is old. Tried CHARVEL JAPAN WILD guitar to record directly in combo + FENDER STANDARD JAZZ for sweet low sound.Bass guitar is lovely. Price is pretty nice. Nice sound by GIBSON IM90R-CH 490R for $165 and good sounded ROTOSOUND NXB40 STRINGS strings. Good tone was DIGITECH THE WEAPON into our friend's FENDER ACOUSTASONIC ULTRALIGHT.
 Some sound examples created on ALESIS LDX1 DMHat Our drummer paid $109 for that. Our hi-hat is good ZILDJIAN 14` A’ .That we bout for $420 and modern snare YAMAHA MSD14ASG. Main cymbals ares ZILDJIAN 14` ZBT crash . Also on ride SABIAN 20`` AA sound (costs about $324).

Brilliant Novation keys - heart of our songs. Model Novation Impulse 61 is cool tool. Company Novation is doing easy to use midi. Our was for very good price $452. On several songs we use coolest composers synth, and Waldorf Memory RAM does good job, like any other cool Waldorf products.

I'm fan of Andrea Bocelli, and love to test soundcards on "Sueno (in Spanish)" CD. Great song to test is "Mai Piu Cosi". Test was really cool! Impressed with quality.

M-Audio Delta 1010 LT little review

My experience with M-Audio Delta 1010Lt.

I bought it used from recording studio of my friend. I wanted good soundcard for home recording, and 2 channel cards didn’t match my requirements. I wanted to record drummer, 2 guitars, vocals and so on.

Here some recordings on Delta1010 Lt:

Jane by Sergei Kurek

First of all, I was impressed by sounding of this Delta 1010 LT device even in recording studio of my friend when we were recording our first band demo. I liked how bass guitar Warwick 5-string and bass drum Tama sounded even without mixing and mastering. That means great possibilities for home recording are here.  But than I fund out that M-Audio Delta 1010LT is very nice playing device. It has very good sound. I tested it in compare with M-Audio Fast Track, M-Audio Audiophile 2496, ESI Juli@ and M-Audio-Fast Track Pro. And! Only Juli@ played better.

Very interesting thing, that we were comparing sound of Fast track Pro and Delta 1010Lt, and no one in the room liked sound of Fast track Pro (about 320$ sound card) after playing test CD on Delta 1010LT. It is real truth, because usually me and my friends have very different tastes on sound, and arguing. And honestly, we were expecting more from Fast track Pro because in our view it was more cool and modern card. Delta 1010LT is kinda old device. 

Very important thing, that Delta 1010Lt has some potential for modding. Stock op-amps are 4558 JRC and they are very cheap. It means that no very big sense to put before them hi-end mic or instrumental preamp. It is sad. Everyone should remember this. It is kinda gold rule: whole sound chain must be the same level. For example, if you have mic for 80$ and put it into 3500$ rack preamp with cable for 2$, it is really ineffective. The same works here for inside chips. 

Some folk made this cheap op-amps JRC 4558 (about 1.5$ price) out of Delta 1010Lt and soldered 20-25$ op-amps (don’t remember exact models) and sound improved fantastically.

5 years passed and I am very satisfied with M-Audio Delta 1010LT. 

Funny thing that this sound card doesn’t go cheaper on second-hand sales. It is very good. The only option disappointing me is SPDIF. It is real crap. But I never seriously needed it. Only for test.

Hi everybody! This is my new blog about home music recording. Will share my experience with you all folks!
see you later!!