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Originally Posted by
kwaehner
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Can current RADAR owners comment on the level of noise created by the fan (it has a fan, yes?)
If you were stuck working in a single-room tracking/recording space, like a home studio, could you record mics with the RADAR unit in the same room (stuck in a closet, perhaps?)
If it needs to be in a machine room or a sound isolating rack, that would be useful info for us smaller guys.
Thanks!
- Kevin
I do a great deal of tracking in my "control room." I have a RADAR 2 and I replaced the fans with the most quiet fans I could get my hands on, as well as put reostats on the fans (I know this is a bad thing to do) so that I can drop the fan noise floor. I am convinced that there are only noisey fans or really noisey fans-- no such thing as a quiet fan. This was a great fix for rock and roll but for recording acoustic music where I have quiet spaces it drove me bonkers. I tried to isolate it the best I could in the room and just couldn't make things work. I don't want a big isolation box in my space. I also thought about getting a bunch of long cables and moving the RADAR elsewhere. The only place possible was the small side room that I use as an isolation booth for guitar amps. I also don't like the fan noise for mixing. A mechanical room would have been the best fix for me but wasn't in the cards. I ended up just getting Symphony card for the G5 and 16ADX and 16DAX.
Again, the RADAR is a great machine but fan noise was an issue for me. If the fan hadn't been an issue along with the limitations on PCIe interfaces I am sure that I would have upgraded to a RADAR Nyquist.
Whenever I use my RADAR now I always marvel at the solid construction and feel of the controller. I do miss it for day in day out in the studio.