Sweet recording system! I wonder if it would be possible to have the Evo 16 and the SP8 in separate rooms, linked by the optical cables, to do simultaneous recording of say the drummer in one room and the rest of the band in the next room. What would be the cable length limits and latency with that?
The technical maximum of TOSlink cables is 10 Meters although, we'd typically say to keep them below 5 meters unless you're buying really high-quality cables to avoid dropouts and clocking issues. There would be no latency caused by this as the data transmission on the ADAT port is done via light, which is a pretty speedy way to send data! It may be easier/more reliable to have the EVO 16 and SP8 in the same room and just use longer XLR cables or a stage box to feed audio from the drum room to the SP8.
@@weareevoaudio thanks so much for the helpful reply. The next thing I wonder is how it would be if I have the Evo 16 in my master control room hooked up to my computer running Logic and the SP8 less than 10 meters away in my bigger studio, recording the band with 8 inputs.
In such a use case, I would only need to run the optical cables between the two rooms, and the master control room’s evo 16 inputs could also be used to do vocal overdubs and other recording tasks when needed, while the outputs could feed my monitors.
great video!! great drummer!! what is the dampening system on the snare drum please?
Sweet recording system! I wonder if it would be possible to have the Evo 16 and the SP8 in separate rooms, linked by the optical cables, to do simultaneous recording of say the drummer in one room and the rest of the band in the next room. What would be the cable length limits and latency with that?
The technical maximum of TOSlink cables is 10 Meters although, we'd typically say to keep them below 5 meters unless you're buying really high-quality cables to avoid dropouts and clocking issues. There would be no latency caused by this as the data transmission on the ADAT port is done via light, which is a pretty speedy way to send data!
It may be easier/more reliable to have the EVO 16 and SP8 in the same room and just use longer XLR cables or a stage box to feed audio from the drum room to the SP8.
@@weareevoaudio thanks so much for the helpful reply. The next thing I wonder is how it would be if I have the Evo 16 in my master control room hooked up to my computer running Logic and the SP8 less than 10 meters away in my bigger studio, recording the band with 8 inputs.
In such a use case, I would only need to run the optical cables between the two rooms, and the master control room’s evo 16 inputs could also be used to do vocal overdubs and other recording tasks when needed, while the outputs could feed my monitors.
That should in theory work, just make sure you have high-quality TOSlink cables to minimise the risk of data loss over such a long optical connection.
@@weareevoaudio thanks! I look forward to trying it out!
Bring out the 32!