CS70 wrote:
As of the headphone out level, maybe a good idea is trying an interface out before buying it? Otherwise a little separate headphone amp like my headpod does the trick.
I'd love to do that but which retailers let you?
I only know of guitar center and that's if you have one close by to return in-store.
Ah, here shops tend to have the possibility, in terms of a dedicate studio space for the big ones, and a more "let's set up a computer with some material" for the small ones.
DigDug wrote:My main complaint with my last interface(UR22mkII) was the headphone out was too weak. Hopefully they changed that this time around.
I don't know the UR22 or the new UR24C but the headphone amps on my UR824 are more than capable of doing some damage to you hearing. What headphones / impedance are you using?
I'm not familiar with the Yamaha's DD but nothing in the spec alarms me.
I'll see if I can find the spec for the headphone amp on your Steinberg AI and see how it compares with mine. It just woories me when someone says that a headphone amp lacks power that they are monitoring at too high a level.
What about analog mixers with built-in effects?
Isn't that DSP as well?
Is that suppose to be instantaneous or is there still some latency because it is DSP?
Same! But too short for humans to notice.
There's some latency for analogue as well actually - the speed of EM waves in copper is finite! But of course is too small to be noticed by our brains in normal conditions.. try to send an analogue signal to the moon however.. (well, first you have to get a cable up there, which is not as simple as it sounds..)
That's what I hate about observing the night sky. The latency is just ridiculous.
CS70 wrote:For example, the relative balance between the guide base and the vocal monitoring is critical for them to pitch right while keeping control of articulation and expression, but only experienced vocalists will actively tell you (or even know) if the vox in the headphones is in the sweet spot or not.
Yes to all that. I've learned to spend time explicitly checking how they hear their voice against the music in their headphones. Once people get the gist of what I'm talking about they can get quite finicky
(well, first you have to get a cable up there, which is not as simple as it sounds..)
