Merry Xmas

Mmm... beer...
Mmm... 1050 beers!

Cheers

A special thought for JB and Oscar Peterson.

M-Audio Firewire 410 For Sale - $199

add posted on Craiglist:

M-Audio Firewire 410
4-in/10-out Mobile Recording Interface

Extremely Portable and Professional Sound Quality

Like New, Factory Refurbished and
Fully Bench Tested by M-Audio Labs, Irwindale, CA on 12/10/2007

Use the same rig as guitar legend John McLaughlin!

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Top Features:

- 2 x 8 24-bit/96kHz analog I/O; 192kHz stereo out
- 2 mic/line ins w/ preamps and phantom power
- 8 line outs to mixer or direct surround output
- S/PDIF digital I/O w/ PCM, AC-3, and DTS support
- 1 x 1 MIDI I/O
- includes Ableton Live Lite music production software

FireWire 410 is a FireWire-compatible audio/MIDI interface that has it all—power, flexibility, compact size and low price. FireWire 410’s 4-in/10-out configuration complete with preamps is perfect for personal recording, routing discrete outputs to a mixer, or directly driving a surround sound system. The on-board ASIO 2-compliant mixer and software control panel provide total routing flexibility—including monitoring with external effects. You also get ultra-low latency software monitoring and near-zero latency hardware direct monitoring—and two headphone outs with independent level controls let you collaborate with a partner anywhere, anytime. FireWire 410 can even be completely bus-powered for total mobile operation (6-pin FireWire port required)

Link to Official Product Presentation, Manual/Driver Downloads

Happy Holidays from Iritis

Wishing you rockin' holidays and a fantastic New Year.
We'll be hosting a tiny little World Premiere private show next week.
If you mention this posting and manage to get in touch with me directly I'll try to bribe the bouncer into letting you in.

Iritis means business

We gots business cards now!
ya dig?

Things are shaping up nicely with the band,
i'm finally ditching my capricious M-Audio Firewire 410
recording hardware. It might be good enough for John McLaughlin
but it has been a serious headache in our set-up.

So i went out and got meself a Line6 TonePort UX8.
This baby is rock solid and it's just a whole new dimension
to have 8 real inputs instead of the misleadingly advertized 4 inputs
on the firewire that turned out to only be 2.

It's going to be fun playing with this new toy.
Even if it seems that more gear beget$$$ even more gear....
The quality of our recordings should vastly improve.

As to the quality of our playing... well we're getting there.
There are quite a few news song sketches I recently posted on myspace. And watch out! You might just get invited to some
private house party soon for our maiden live show...