View Full Version : Digi Pre or Focusrite isa428?
studiomusic
May 23rd, 2008, 04:50 PM
I'm looking for some pres to interface with my 192i/o. Mostly for drum micing.
I can get a Digi Pre for about the same price as an ISA428 with the digital card.
I like the ISA pres (I have an isa220) but have never heard the DigiPre pres...
I guess I'm asking if Digidesign pres are worth half that of Focusrite ISA pres.
What would YOU do?
studiomusic
May 23rd, 2008, 04:53 PM
Or should I go with an API lunchbox and cards to start a collection of those (as is the mode lately)?
elroy jetson
May 23rd, 2008, 07:27 PM
Or should I go with an API lunchbox and cards to start a collection of those (as is the mode lately)?
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weedywet
May 23rd, 2008, 11:52 PM
PLEASE do that
neither the Digi nor the Focusrite is really any good.
studiomusic
May 24th, 2008, 03:10 PM
Alrighty then.:Thumbsup:
RWC
May 24th, 2008, 09:01 PM
I'd make one.
http://sound.westhost.com/project66.htm
http://www.seventhcircleaudio.com
you don't have to be a designer to make good stuff with the internet.
Doylemusic
May 24th, 2008, 09:55 PM
ummm, can you say API Lunchbox!! :grin:
get the 10 slot and fill it up
FajitaTone
May 25th, 2008, 04:56 AM
I like my 428. I use it for recording VO/Narration. and the digital out is nice too.
$.02:Coolio:
Strat+AC30
May 25th, 2008, 05:43 AM
http://www.seventhcircleaudio.com+1
And if you don't have the expertise to make them yourself, there are options for others to build them for you. PM me if interested (I can recommend the guy who built 3 for me).
studiomusic
May 26th, 2008, 04:24 PM
I found an 8 space lunchbox with 4 original OSA pres.
Now to find 4 more to fill it out... and the money to buy them...:icon_eek:
Ryan Mcveigh
May 28th, 2008, 06:30 PM
I agree with the other suggested routes. I own an ISA428, and a lunchbox with both API and Vintage Design pres.
The 428 is pretty darn average compared to API or the M581.
Not that they're total, unusable crap. However, having bought the ISA first, struggled with them, then buying the API stuff; they are vastly superior in every way, sonically speaking.
Of course, it depends. They're very different preamplifiers.
greyskull
May 29th, 2008, 08:40 AM
i quite like the 428,
even against api's, tg2's shadow hills and great rivers....
Its just another flavour