Review of a Recording Engineer (And Gamer!)
Written: Dec 13 '00 (Updated Dec 14 '00)
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Pros: Very clean analog recording and playback, great price, Full Duplex, great MIDI, great gaming compatibility
Cons: None at all
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| spiderlegs's Full Review: Turtle Beach Montego II Home Studio |
I was offered a very cool sound engineering project for a professional training simulator of a large military vehicle. The project included recording every sound the vehicle made on many types of surfaces, put the sounds on my computer, edit sounds and send back to the programmers at their specifications. I needed very rich, clean sound through the whole process
The best field recording device I could get my hands on was a Hi-8 camcorder with a very nice studio mic I had plugged into it. I needed a professional sound card with clean Analog-to-Digital converters. Most sound cards have bad A/D converters and bad signal-to-noise ratios. I didn't have $500-$1200 for a pro card.
When I saw the great specs on the Montego II and saw it was a Turtle Beach card I was sold. I found the Home Studio version on The Web for $160. I Installed the card and daughter card in my old p200MMX and installed the drivers under NT with no problem at all. I played with some of the software and was very impressed. Also the MIDI sounds real nice but how clean was is at recording analog sounds?
I recorded all of the sounds for the project onto Hi-8 and then recorded them through the analog input of the Montego II in stereo at 44.1kHz. There was no audible hiss from the sound card at all and the sounds maintained their richness and fullness. I was very impressed and relieved I could get pro results with semi-pro equipment. The project went very smoothly. The sounds sound great and Turtle Beach saved my butt with a better than great sound card at a real bargain.(Thanks Turtle Beach!)
Now I'm playing Quake with the Quad channel on - Wow!
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 160
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