- Hi I'm Jack - and I'm Harry and we're here
at the Visconti studio at Kingston University
and we're going to be doing some recording of singer-songwriter
Zach Johnson today.
So the aim of today is we're going to be recording acoustic
guitar and also some vocals of Zach and we're going to be recording it on each
of our products all the way from our smallest interface iD4 up to the
ASP8024 Heritage Edition which they have here the Visconti studio.
So the preamps that are in our smaller box products
like the ASP880, ASP800 and all the ID range
they actually have the mic preamps that are found in this console
so you're getting that studio quality on your desktop and hopefully this test will
show that you are getting the same mic preamp sound in all of our other products.
So we're going to start with the ASP8024 seeing as we're all set
up in the control room over there and then we're going to move up through the
interface range and into our eight channel preamps.
So now we're going to take you through what we've got set up
so we've got Zach sitting here
we've got three microphones roughly aimed at 12-14th fret
they're roughly 6-10 inches
from the neck of the guitar we've got three microphones
we've got a SM57 here
next to that we've got an AKG C414
and we've also got a Sennheiser MKH 40
now this is probably the flattest mic we've got out of the three
and we're definitely going to be able to hear more of the characteristics
of the Audient console mic pre through this microphone.
So let's go into the control room to start with the ASP8024.
So just to explain a little bit more about what we've done
especially with guitar for the smaller products which don't have the three mic
inputs we need for the three mics we're using we actually just recorded them
either one at a time or for iD14 and iD22 we just did two at one time and
then the other afterwards and for each of these we recorded a couple of times
two or three takes just so we could actually get the performance that we
wanted and then moved on up through the difference products.
When we got to our 8 channel mic preamps which are the ASP880 and ASP800
we used the iD44 as the audio interface
and then use the ADAT connection through into iD44 and into Logic.
So you're getting the converters on the ASP880 and the ASP800
as well as the console mic preamps.
So with regards to converters on these products
while the mic preamp stays the same the converters are going to be slightly different.
With iD22 it has the same top-of-the-range Burr Brown
converters as the ASP880 so when comparing those two you should actually
find that there's not a huge amount of difference at all.
Similarly with iD14 it's got the same Burr Brown converters as ASP800
we recommend them sometimes as a pair so you'll get 10 channels of exactly the
same preamp and exactly the same converters.
So with iD4 you actually have AKM converters
which will sound probably a bit different from the Burr Browns
that are on the iD14 and iD22
and similarly with iD44 it's got AKM
converters instead of the Burr Browns as well.
That's actually got our highest spec'd converters out of all of the different products
So it'll be interesting to see how that sounds compared to everything else.
So now we've done guitar I think we're ready to do the vocals so again we're going to
start in the console room make sure it's all sounding good in here and then move
into the other room and get all the interface products done again.
We've got the three same mics set up
so we've got the C414 we got the 57 and MKH40
They're all very close to each other so we'll capture the same sound
from the same position.
Zach is about 6 inches away from the pop shield.
So we're going to go into the control room
and we're gonna start recording on the ASP8024.
Okay so we've just finished up to recording the samples for today
I want to say a massive thank you to Visconti Studio at Kingston University
and Rob the engineer for helping us out today.
Thanks as well to Zach for providing us samples for today's recording
Yeah and if you want to actually listen to any of the samples yourself
and download them, listen to them in your environment
then head over to our website the links will be in descriptions
and up there somewhere.
Go download them check them out and let us know what you think.
Thanks for watching.