I'm selling two MOTU 828's that are under a year old.

$600 each (free continental US shipping) and I'll throw in a firewire hub if you buy both.

I really like these boxes and use them with a G3 iBook and an external firewire drive as a portable 16-track recorder. I'm selling them because I'm upgrading to a box with a higher sampling rate.

828 features:

16 / 24 - bit
44.1 / 48 kHz
8 1/4-inch balanced analog line in
8 1/4-inch balanced analog line out
2 of the line-ins double as XLR mic inputs with phantom power
SPDIF in and out
ADAT 9-pin sync in
optical in/out for ADAT or smpte (? or toslink ??)

I have all cables/manuals/software for these.

They go on ebay this Thursday if nobody here is interested.

best,
Bob Weston
bweston@ripco.com

do you have any pictures?

Bob,
What box are you upgrading to?
I'm looking at the MOTU HD192 and was wondering if you or anyone else has had any experience with it. The convertors are supposed to be quite nice.
mike

I have photos. Email me personally and I'll send them to you.

bweston@ripco.com

Upgrading to 828mkII.

I've looked at all the MOTU stuff a lot and really like it. The 192 looks great. For me, the 828 II makes the most sense: price, features, portability, etc. I'm switching so that I can get the word clock in.

best
Bob

Hey Bob,
have you checked these out?

http://mhlabs.com/index2.html

I just picked up the +DSP model to replace my 2408 mk II. Works like a charm in OS 9 and 10.2 and it sounds really good. Does 24/96 and I believe it meets your wordclock needs.

The converters are supposed to be some of the best available in a mobile interface. The + DSP option looks to be very nice once it's implemented.

I'm a little bitter about MOTU's slow response to developing OS X drivers for the PCI-324 card, one of the reasons I picked up this card and not the 828 mk II.

Jason

Yeah. I like the idea of the MH stuff. But the MOTU stuff sounds fine to me and it's way cheaper (for an 8-channel firewire box).

bob

hey bob. two questions.

1. what software do you use.
2. what are your feelings on sample rate vs. bit depth. I've heard that the step up from 16 bit to 24 bit gives more sound improvement than the step to 88 or 96 from 44 or 48.

cheers
ben adrian

Ben,

Are you buying these freakin' 828's or what?

If you need to choose between the 16 to 24 jump and the 44 to 96 jump, I pick the word length jump. But it seems like with most gear these days you can get both 24-bit and 88/96 kHz, so you don't need to choose. You can have it all.

I think having an outboard fancy word clock is pretty important too. Probably more noticable than going from 96 to 192.

But I'm still really new to this stuff and haven't had the opportunity to A/B all the options.

I'm using Digital Performer for some remote / live recordings. But any final mixing will be through an analog board onto 1/2-inch.

Bob

Sorry bob, too broke to buy anything. Just wanted some of your opinions.

Besides, I'm getting almost no recording work nowadays.

ben adrian