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Originally posted by UC6CxayMClLfjk9Og3hEw-lA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiADpVe1bxQ
Hm. They sound the same. Yes Neumann is louder and Audienz has a bit less highs maybe, but you're gonna EQ anyways. What sounds better with his voice sounds worse with another voice/mic/room/instrument. The only thing that matters is I/O and drivers.
Can you bypass the Neumann preamps for a line in (with a hardware vocal chain)
The Beatles used to record everything with two microphones, and they changed the world. It's not the gear people. The magic is what that gear captures.
SSL2 is enough
I hear difference on my phone speaker????
AI slop
The first and last
Could just be the way I'm listening to this (decent headphones) maybe they are compressed or something …I can't hear a large difference between them if any.
You say "stylized" and I say "doesn't sound like cheap thin underpowered crap"
it's an adc in a box.
As long as u have skill nobody gets s*it about that metal box????????
I understand the need for character brought from the console, but if you're going to a DAW, doesn't make more sense to use a plug-in with the same results at a fraction of the price.
So you actually got it kinda backwards. The cheaper interfaces do impart their own tone and character to the Sound, the MT 48 in fact was designed to be as pristine and clear as possible. You are getting exactly what has been recorded. For example, if you run any X preamp, lets take Shadow Hills for this example, through a Focusrite 2i2, or a Behringer UCM22, you are getting the tone of the preamp, which you want, but also the colour of the Focusrite's DAC / Preamp. In case of the MT48, you are only getting the colour of the preamp, and nothing else, the MT48 will impart as little as it can from its end. It also has an absurd dynamic range and a ton of headroom. As a result you can drive the signal a lot higher before it starts distorting and your transients are much pronounced. In this case, you are getting exactly the tone of that mic, and nothing else through the MT 48. That's why it sounds so good. I have done the comparison in a studio with different preamps into the MT48, and tested it against a whole ass SSL Origin.
Sound the same, everybody who says otherwise are caping so hard. Go to the doctor, check your ears mate.
I’ve been following you for years and due that Gertrude comment, I’m out! ????????
Add EQ and compression to the cheap interfaces and you got a competitor lol. Neumann is the sweet spot.
That's not a good thing. Why pay 30x more for signal loss? You can shape it in post.
Been using that exact Behringer one the past 5 years ????
I'm not sure I can spot real difference with youtube sound. From my point of view although they sound different, but cheapest is not very bad. Plus you test only vocal and I'm specifically interested in writing guitar
Umm!! an excellent lesson – I liked the sound of the last one best, too ( sounded like big-time radio)
There's an even bigger difference in DA converters running to the speakers and the headphone outs helping you hear your editing, mixing and mastering better.
and what about the vast amount of features that a Neumann interface offers compared to the behringer? For the vast smount of people we're way past the audio quality being the main selling point.
Update your drivers! Hadn't in years for my Behringer and never could have YouTube and DAW open and play either, had to close one to get audio over to the other. Latest drivers installed to fix RipX playback, and that also now works like a charm…
The most important part is the preamp. Neumann uses the best components by batch selection. So they get a much smoother characteristic with fewer peripheral components. So a little more air and headroom and much less noise. Actually the more expensive AI’s are much more transparent-i recognise a Behringers sound much quicker than an RME, UA or Neumann.
What people don’t mention is how DA converters have become commodified over the years so even entry level converters—that cost pennies to manufacturers—offer very high fidelity. A cheaper interface’s preamps might be ‘meh’ but use an external pre and you can achieve immense results. Conclusion: I’d sooner have a mid-tier interface and a nice pre-amp and perhaps a compressor than blow 2000 on an interface alone.