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I'm looking for the best modifiable, decent quality 2 channel (min 20 channel, 4 chan. max) outboard box that can be used with PC's for analog to digital recording at the 192khz, 24bit level.
This device, or series from that particular manufacturer, will be handed off, after much modification!! to a oscar winning sound engineer to try out. He still uses analog to record off the sound floor of a given film set, but would like to eventually go to digital..IF, I repeat -IF- the bloody things could sound as good as his personally (involved in the design) designed analog recording rig. He uses about $1M worth of microphones on his personal box of gear he hauls around the sound/film floor, for example.
So I need the minimal level of quality that can be had for a decent retail in the $200-400 US range. As you know, this is the DIY AUDIO forum here, so no wisecracks about the quality please, that's my job to create it! (and have it be far, far better than any commercial offerings) eg., I'm looking to make the external box's analog section run on battery power, at the least..to get to a decent noise floor, where the noise floor does not inject harshness to the high frequencies due to noise floor modulation via the standard/stock PS in the outboard box.
I'm looking for about 4 channels of analog-to-digital Input, and the ability to get that to the EXTERNAL to the input box PC Without anything in the way of errors or issues. As for the PC itself, that's something that I can build myself, and if anyone has the right software to record tose tracks, that is error free, well I'll gladly take that advice too. Any advice on any particular PC components is welcome of course (HD's, Mobo's, etc).
This is just a bit of a 'test' I'm creating for him to try out. So it does not need to be based on the best gear---yet. That's why the low ticket item is the one of choice. It's the modifications to the gear that will be the big trick.
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