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ADAT Question

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  • 13-12-2010 2:42pm
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    fuzztone
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    Hi Guys. I'm trying to put together a little home recording setup and I have a question about using ADAT connections that I hope someone can help me out with.

    So basically I borrowed a few interfaces off a few friends covering all the major types of connections, USB, Firewire and PCI. PCI had the best latency by far which is important for me as I plan to be using a lot of guitar amp modelers in real time so with this in mind I bought a RME Hammerfall DSP 9652. I will pickup something like a Presonus Digimax D8 which I can connect via ADAT for my inputs but I was wondering what do I need to connect the ADAT or SPDIF outputs to a set of monitor speakers as most of the ones I'm looking at only have 3 1/4" and XLR inputs? Thanks!


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    madtheory
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    ADAT is 8 channel so you generally don't find it used as an input for powered monitor speakers.

    You can buy monitors with S/Pdif inputs. There's quite a few. The only issue is that you won't have a physical volume control, so if you accidentally give them a full level input you can damage the speakers. The Digidesign monitors are excellent and recently discontinued, so superb value for money. But you'll need a box to convert S/Pfif to AES 3.

    Or you can buy a DA converter, that will have analogue outputs. What's your budget? The Presonus Central Station would be a nice solution for you. You will need to get a wordclock cable and clock both converters from the Central Station.


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    fuzztone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭fuzztone


    Cheers Madtheory, that certainly cleared up a lot of my issues. I picked up a second hand Steinberg MR816x which has 8 channels of ADAT I/O which should do the job very nicely. Just waiting on my RME though, DHL are taking forever to deliver it.


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    madtheory
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    You're welcome. Are you sure that the Steinberg can be used standalone? It's a firewire interface y'see. Makes the RME redundant for you.


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    fuzztone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭fuzztone


    The MR816 works fine standalone :) Today is my first day off work for the holidays so I finally got round to setting it all up, so far im super impressed. The MR816s preamps sounds great and with the RME the latency is ridiculously low. Woot!


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