I know you can combine products to do all this, but I'm after an all-in-one box.
I know you can combine products to do all this, but I'm after an all-in-one box.
Just a suggestion, do any of the higher end Zoom or Tascam portable recorders offer these features in a single package?, they might be worth a look at anyway. I have a few digital audio recorders including Philips, Roland, Sony, Tascam and Zoom and each have slightly different attributes, I tend to use the Zoom more often than not.
Hi Borjam. Apologies, I wasn't responding to your message before, but was still mentioning the DBX 286s. Total coincidence! Great minds think alike!
I have an SSL2+ for dedicated Windows audio to keep Windows from using my audio interface and/or the on-board audio. Great interface, but unfortunately the FX are run via VST plugins, so they need a dedicated host to run them through. They can be run through DaVinci and other NLEs as plugins on audio tracks/channels, but I would hazard a guess Dave wants an all-in-one hardware solution.
I still can't think of any all-in-one solution on the market that fits the bill. Would be great to have something like it, though. I'd certainly buy one that has all the features he mentioned, if it existed. Would fit the bill for me for certain projects.
Complicated. As all of this stuff moves to the digital realm (with digital mixing consoles the typical analog outboard like dynamics processors and graphic EQs are tending to be phased out) you can only find kinda expensive options.
Have you considered using software? Most of this processing is being doing in software nowadays.
In the preamp camp you can find the dbx 286S, which is not expensive and ticks most of your boxes except for the digital output and the headphone jack. So you would still need an audio interface.
MOTU offer built in DSP in some audio interfaces like the Ultralite (two microphone preamps) but they don't include a deesser function. Maybe you can persuade them to add sidechain filtering to their compressor, though.
Universal Audio has a Thunderbolt interface with plugins but it's overkill.
There is a very expensive option, Metric Halo, which includes a signal processing engine that allows you to draw an arbitrary signal processing workflow with EQ and dynamics processing which makes it possible to implement a de-esser for instance. You can use a band pass filter feeding the compressor sidechain.
Mac only, the old ones are Firewire (but Metric Halo supports even their oldest products with new boards to use USB and Ethernet). An old ULN-2 would do the trick (two very good microphone preamps) but, again, Firewire unless you update it to "3d" and still Mac only.
Have you had a look at an Austalian manufacturer, Rode? Maybe overkill but the Rodecaster includes gate/eq/deesser/compressor. It's a full fledged mixer designed for podcasters and small broadcast stations.
They also have an application that works with their NT-USB Mini microphone and the Wireless Go II system that kinda does the same as a Rodecaster (in software).
I'll check some other options, but complicated.
SSL has a special offer, their audio interfaces include the SSL Production Pack for free. Essentially you want VocalStrip 2, which would solve your problem but it is a plugin.
Found one!
It lacks a headphone output and I'm sure you won't like the valve thing, but it has gate, compressor, de-esser, phantom of course...
https://artproaudio.com/product/voicechannel-tube-channel-strip-with-digital-outs/
Tubes add some nice sounding distortion, nothing bad of course!
Tubes add some nice sounding distortion, nothing bad of course!
Reach out to Louis Rossman and see if he has any all in one suggestions. From what I've seen though he tends to favour software DSPs with a decent ADC. Also try SpectreSoundStudios as well. He reviews a lot of that sort of equipment and may be able to point you in the right direction.
SSL has a special offer, their audio interfaces include the SSL Production Pack for free. Essentially you want VocalStrip 2, which would solve your problem but it is a plugin.
Yeah, I don't want software solutions, I'm specifically interested if an all-in-one hardware solution exists.
I've asked thsi a few times now, and no one has pointed one out, so I'm guessing the answer is no. This thread was my last ditch effort to find one if it exists.
Sadly, the best audio limiter for speech and youtube video I've found was the original one built into windows.
Yes I know about those solutions, this is why I specifically asked if a simplier all in one hardware solution exists.
Since when is Rossman now an audio expert?
Tubes add some nice sounding distortion, nothing bad of course!Proper tube design should not distort the audio. Withing the proper specified audio levels, it should be as good as any modern IC amplifier.
Since when is Rossman now an audio expert?
I didn't say he was an audio expert. I suggested Dave reach out to him as they already have a rapport, and Louis worked in the industry for several years and has experience with audio equipment.