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[simmac]

Good morning

Just a question.
What do you know about the metric halo interfaces (ULN2 or 2882)?
I know the prize is little bit high,but it looks pretty good and really professional.

[legof]

HI,
I'm the guy that says, again, that the MH 2882 are very bad.
Have you ever tried to us a ribbon mic with those pre ?
What happens when you crank up the channel gain to +15 > very normal > I have a lot of hiss, wich is a pain to get rid of.
The problem, in my humble opinion, is that if the converters are good (i.e. if you can track a sound and have rich sonic results ) that doesn't mean that the pre-ampification stadium is good as well.
This problem has been recognised even by MH, as they admit that the software controlled channel gains are a minor problem of the 2882 tech-design.
that's why they made ULN-2, wich has basically a hardware control for the chan-gain.
I had great results with the 2882 pre: of course the converters sound way better than any MOTU, but the pre are very noisy, confronted to many and little cheaper others.
And what about the drivers ?
what about mix 7/8 ?
If anybody wants to take a look at the MH forums - you'll see I'm not the only one ranting.
Again: good unit, euroexpensive price, unfinished features by 3 years.
Again: just my opinion.

bye