External Sound Cards Vs. Pod Xt |
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Jan 27 2009, 05:12 PM |
Ah, good point ! No, the Apogee does not have XLR output, only input. The Yamaha speakers have both .. would XLR be more recommended here? The Apogee is connected via FireWire and the M-Box uses USB. Apple has normally a good support for FireWire. Are there any (dis)advantages i should think of? Sorry, so many questions, but i learned already a lot today I prefer XLR as they are balanced cables. Jacks usually aren't and you can end up with hum as background noise. Other thing - though this is probably just me - I've always got more XLR spare cables then TRS/Phono/Jacks so an XLR means I don't have to borrow a cable that's used somewhere else . Apogee's firewire is the 400 rather than 800 I think - so about the same speed as USB 2. One big advantage though of firewire is that you can daisy chain multiple boxes together with no data transfer speed loss. That only really means much if you intend to do this though. As you're using Logic and GarageBand (and may not want to use and learn ProTools) double check which of the plug-ins that come with the MBox are open. Some may be only available from within PT. If they are PT only you could work around this via Rewire but that's probably using a hammer to crack a nut . If they are all open it would almost be worth getting the M-Audio just for the plug-ins . Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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