So lately I've been very lazy with my guitar (more pre-occupied, but still…), so I figured I'd just quickly through some money away to shock me into more pro-active behavior.
Well I have, and now I have no choice left now but to get off my ass and get my money's worth.
I've decided to buy an audio interface so I can start writing/recording on my pc, which seems a good way to get me to spend more time with my guitar.
The popular culprits as far as interfaces go, from what I've scrounged up, are things like light snake's, behringer guitar links and similar, m-audio fastrack's and all the PODs, I loose count of them.
Obviously I'd prefer the interfaces that take mic's and keyboards too, so that excludes those nasty guitar links and light snakes and leaves me with the others, which are all over a grand, some over two.
However I recently learned of the Lexicon Alpha, it's pretty much identical in features to the fast track.
Initial read-ups and reviews sound promising, and Lexicon has a good track record, so that is what I'm going with.
The Alpha comes with Cubase LE 5 and some reverb plug-in, but software isn't an issue with me as I'm going to be installing Ubuntu Studio on my pc again, and as far as relevant Windows apps go, such as guitar rig and such, well I've never really bought software anyway =P
I ordered the Lexicon from SoundSelect today for R749 =D
As a bonus, all orders over R500 are delivered for free.
Some other online shops had the Alpha listed, all over R1200 though, wtf!?
I should have it by next week and I'll let you guys know if it's any good.
Has any one here got any experience with these Alpha things, or any Lexicon interfaces?
I'm always too quick to pull the trigger, so I was hoping for some positive feedback to calm my nerves!
I'm not sure what the hyperlinking rules are, but here's the product link anyway...
http://www.lexiconpro.com/product.php?id=7
Well I have, and now I have no choice left now but to get off my ass and get my money's worth.
I've decided to buy an audio interface so I can start writing/recording on my pc, which seems a good way to get me to spend more time with my guitar.
The popular culprits as far as interfaces go, from what I've scrounged up, are things like light snake's, behringer guitar links and similar, m-audio fastrack's and all the PODs, I loose count of them.
Obviously I'd prefer the interfaces that take mic's and keyboards too, so that excludes those nasty guitar links and light snakes and leaves me with the others, which are all over a grand, some over two.
However I recently learned of the Lexicon Alpha, it's pretty much identical in features to the fast track.
Initial read-ups and reviews sound promising, and Lexicon has a good track record, so that is what I'm going with.
The Alpha comes with Cubase LE 5 and some reverb plug-in, but software isn't an issue with me as I'm going to be installing Ubuntu Studio on my pc again, and as far as relevant Windows apps go, such as guitar rig and such, well I've never really bought software anyway =P
I ordered the Lexicon from SoundSelect today for R749 =D
As a bonus, all orders over R500 are delivered for free.
Some other online shops had the Alpha listed, all over R1200 though, wtf!?
I should have it by next week and I'll let you guys know if it's any good.
Has any one here got any experience with these Alpha things, or any Lexicon interfaces?
I'm always too quick to pull the trigger, so I was hoping for some positive feedback to calm my nerves!
I'm not sure what the hyperlinking rules are, but here's the product link anyway...
http://www.lexiconpro.com/product.php?id=7