Trak Master Pro
Monday, July 23 2012 @ 01:09 PM CDT

I remembered over the weekend a unit I had bought a few years ago Focusrite

Trackmaster Pro

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Focusrite-TrakMaster-Pro-Channel-Strip-103145827-i1125408.gc

It had been sitting in cupboard along with a load of other stuff - a couple of Oktava 314 mics, korg electribe rhythm box (v1), novation bass station and a few other things (my old midi gear - emu samplers, yamaha TG33 and so on) - quite the obsolete treasure trove. All this stuff has been basically packed away and forgotten about since I moved in 2008/2009

In regards to the trakmaster, does anyone else use one of these? Are they any good? Is there any other more up to date unit worth considering?

I would be sending the mono output from this to the input of my soundcard...the idea being to use the pre amps and maybe the compressor on vocals

Re:Trak Master Pro
Monday, July 23 2012 @ 05:33 PM CDT

An OK unit - even now it'd be at least 5-700 clams for anything better. Suffers from trying to stuff too much in the box.

Drawmer make a couple of nice units similar to this. Focusrite too. Their good ones ain't cheap, but that said, I laid out 2 grand on a Drawmer 1960 15 years ago, just got a set of replacement tubes ($200). It's seen continuous use all that time, 2 ch mic/instrument pre and compressor, not the very best in the world but damn good (they're still making them, which has to tell you something). 33c a day so far, and still going strong.

So, it's up to you. If you haven't thought to dig it out for 3 years, do you need it or a replacement at all?

Try it out again, but there's probably reasons you left it in the closet. Then ask yourself if you need a better one.

Re:Trak Master Pro
Monday, July 23 2012 @ 09:06 PM CDT

Quote by: Moonwolf_Project An OK unit - even now it'd be at least 5-700 clams for anything better. Suffers from trying to stuff too much in the box. Drawmer make a couple of nice units similar to this. Focusrite too. Their good ones ain't cheap, but that said, I laid out 2 grand on a Drawmer 1960 15 years ago, just got a set of replacement tubes ($200). It's seen continuous use all that time, 2 ch mic/instrument pre and compressor, not the very best in the world but damn good (they're still making them, which has to tell you something). 33c a day so far, and still going strong. So, it's up to you. If you haven't thought to dig it out for 3 years, do you need it or a replacement at all? Try it out again, but there's probably reasons you left it in the closet. Then ask yourself if you need a better one.

thanks moon wolf
i kind of agree...i did try a vocal track on it last night and did a direct A-B comparison with the same vocal track i recorded a couple of weeks ago...the track master version definitely has got a bit more presence/punch

i will continue to experiment

thanks for the note