Quality of Mix w- dual/quad Intel vs. D/A - A/D

[Kenny B]

Hey gang, it has been awhile since I posted but now I have some important questions. I am migrating to a new Mac that I bought last April. I've had the computer for over 6 months but had not used it for music recording, rather video work. Now I want migrate from my old dual 800 G4 (DP4.02) to the latest version of DP and a 2008 Dual/Quad MacPro (not the newer Nehalem processor.

My preferred method of mixing down was to go out the analog and rerecord on two fresh tracks using my HD192 outs (Black Lion modded), those tracks would be at the same quality 88.2 khz/24 bit, but now mixed. This was much faster and easier than trying to let the computer do it's bounce to disk and waiting hours for a simple mix. Later I'd use BarbraBach to make 44.1/16 bit CDs or MP3.

With the faster computer and 10 gb of RAM, it should go a lot faster to do a bounce to disk. I'm wondering if the quality will improve staying in the digital realm for the entire mix and if so, will it be noticeable???? Any help here or another suggestions to my methodology will be welcome.

Other improvements, I have a Lucid clock that I'm using instead of the HD192 clock. I am trying for best quality acoustic guitar tracks since that is what I primarily do. I have a really nice setup, great mics, preamps, but now I want to make sure these mixes sound best possible.

thanks, Kenny

[Shooshie]

Any time you cut out conversions, the sound quality remains higher.

[zaratero]

And you can use the same method of real time bounce to two fresh tracks using DP´s internal busses.

[newrigel]

Hey gang, it has been awhile since I posted but now I have some important questions. I am migrating to a new Mac that I bought last April. I've had the computer for over 6 months but had not used it for music recording, rather video work. Now I want migrate from my old dual 800 G4 (DP4.02) to the latest version of DP and a 2008 Dual/Quad MacPro (not the newer Nehalem processor.

My preferred method of mixing down was to go out the analog and rerecord on two fresh tracks using my HD192 outs (Black Lion modded), those tracks would be at the same quality 88.2 khz/24 bit, but now mixed. This was much faster and easier than trying to let the computer do it's bounce to disk and waiting hours for a simple mix. Later I'd use BarbraBach to make 44.1/16 bit CDs or MP3.

With the faster computer and 10 gb of RAM, it should go a lot faster to do a bounce to disk. I'm wondering if the quality will improve staying in the digital realm for the entire mix and if so, will it be noticeable???? Any help here or another suggestions to my methodology will be welcome.

Other improvements, I have a Lucid clock that I'm using instead of the HD192 clock. I am trying for best quality acoustic guitar tracks since that is what I primarily do. I have a really nice setup, great mics, preamps, but now I want to make sure these mixes sound best possible.

thanks, Kenny

Digital is digital inside DP. Just hijack DP's outputs with Audio Hijack... it's really easy and it's excellent quality... whatever your converters sample rate will handle it will do. And your clock will just make everything better too overall.