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$125
Aark 20/20 Audio Recording Interface - $125 (East Ridge)
Price:
$125
Location:
Chattanooga, TN
Description:
Feel free to call me. My name is Benny. (423) 313-XXXXCOMES WITH MANUEL AND PCI CARD. THIS IS A VERY RARE INTERFACE AND IS IN MINT CONDITION. YOU CAN CALL ME OR TEXT AT 423-313-XXXX. MY NAME IS BENNY. FEEL FREE TO EMAIL AS WELL. THANKSThe Aark 20/20 system consists of a very solid, nicely made PCI card with an onboard DSP chip (the so-called Host card) and an external box containing eight channels of both 20-bit A-D and D-A conversion. S/PDIF in and out is also provided, and can be used at the same time as the eight channels of analogue I/O, giving a total of 10 channels that can be used simultaneously. Software drivers for Windows 95 allow audio applications to 'see' the Aark 20/20 as if it was five stereo soundcards, so most modern software should work just fine with it. To get you started, the card is bundled with Samplitude Studio audio recording package from the German Company SEK'D.INSTALLATIONI have to say that this is one of the easiest audio products I have ever installed. Having a pure Windows installation with no other exotic PCI cards (apart from a generic S3-based video card) probably helped, but I have had enough nightmares with other audio devices to make me grateful for a nice, clean, simple installation. In case you have never installed a product like this, the documentation supplied is helpful, with several screenshots showing how it is done.The supplied Aardvark software control panel tests your PC's suitability for multitrack audio work by testing the efficiency of the PCI buss. The PCI capacity of my generic Pentium II 266MHz was rated as 'High'. This means my system should be able to simultaneously record and play back 10 channels of digital audio, assuming I have a fast enough hard drive. Once the Host card is installed, a single 2-metre shielded 25-pin cable connects the PCI card to the back of the Aark 20/20 converter box. This cable also provides power to the external unit. Most PCs are populated with at least one other 25-pin socket, so some care is needed to find the right connection (I'm rather sensitive about this sort of thing, because I once blew up a motherboard by confusing a SCSI port with a printer socket...)The sturdy external unit has two rows of eight quarter-inch connectors on the front, with outputs on top and inputs below. Beside these are phono sockets for S/PDIF in and out. On the back, along with the host PCI card cable, are BNC connections for word clock in and out, together with a BNC connection for video in, ready for a future upgrade to enable the Aark 20/20 to derive its master sampling rate from an external video signal. The word clock out can be used to synchronise the Aark 20/20 with other digital audio devices, including a second Aark 20/20. Indeed, the software automatically recognises the presence of a second unit and configures itself for 16 tracks of analogue I/O instead of eight.DSP & ROUTINGThe system comes complete with onboard digital signal processing; but the Aark 20/20 makes no claim to be a digital effects device. The DSP is actually used to increase the flexibility of the 20/20 in some very useful ways. Firstly, it can behave as a digital patchbay; any input can be routed to any or every output via the software control panel. In the digital domain, it's easy to route a single input to multiple outputs; but if you want several sources to be routed to a single destination, then you need digital signal processing. Although the Aark 20/20's main role in life is to get eight discrete analogue outputs to an external mixer, the ability to create submixes and a separate monitor mix within the unit is incredibly useful. The monitor mix is a separate function and can itself become an input source for a piece of recording software. This means that you can use it to mix all eight inputs (or all 10 if you use the S/PDIF inputs as well) into stereo and then place them on just one pair of tracks in your software recording application. The level of each track can be controlled individually, and there is a master mix volume control as well, and a pan control is planned for the next version of the software. You could also use the application itself as the monitor signal source and have the Aark 20/20 bounce up to 10 tracks to another pair of tracks. The monitor function is best seen as an "eavesdropping" device that stops short of being a fully functional mixer. It is, though, an extremely handy utility.Another use for the DSP on the Aark 20/20 is to generate a test tone. All outputs can select 'Tone' as an option: very useful when you are setting the system up and just want to check signal paths and levels. 'Silence' is another DSP option that has less obvious uses, but can be used to demonstrate the noise floor of the system if it is selected as a signal source. The software control panel supplied with the Aark 20/20 is visually unexciting, but this is hardly a problem when you consider that its main function is to set up the routing of the inputs, outputs and monitor buss. Three tabs at the top of the control panel let you configure the hardware, software and advanced settings such as professional or consumer S/PDIF (some DAT machines are very fussy about the somewhat superfluous tag in the S/PDIF bitstream that distinguishes between the two formats). The software tab reveals what I mentioned earlier; that the Aark 20/20 appears to a recording application as five stereo soundcards. This is becoming common practice with multitrack soundcards and is a good way to gain compatibility with the largest number of applications. I noted that when the Aark 20/20's control panel was maximised, it consumed a significant portion of my PC processor's number-crunching capability. It looks to me as if this is due to the real-time meter display. It's not a problem as long as you don't maximise the control panel while you are playing back a lot of tracks.The big advantage the Aark 20/20 has over other PC multitrack I/O units is that the converters are outside the PC. This should lead us to expect a very low noise floor, since all of the sensitive analogue parts are well away from the PC and shielded from it.Location: East Ridge
Category:
Musical Instruments
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