Thank you Mr Carstens.

It would be great if manufacturers actively advertised the limitations of their devices. You know nothing, absolutely nothing about a device if you don't know its limitations.

Marketing is a cancer. I'm almost sure there's a dedicated facility in hell to accommodate people who worked in marketing during their life.

It actually takes much, and it's painful. It's been seven months and I haven't managed to set a nice recording setup with monitoring.

With what I spent for nothing I could have had myself a nice trip somewhere. Consider also that I haven't produced anything during this time because I was fed up with the thing, all because greedy companies make crippled gear in order for you to buy, buy again, and buy more expensive.

I think utterly evil Google directs you to mostly positive reviews, also people on forums aren't as qualified to talk about gear as they were 20 years ago, mostly because with smartphones and laptops anyone has access to internet.

Also the manufacturer should the one announcing the limitations, NOWHERE did RME stated that the reverb on the Babyface and Totalmix FX is a toy at most. So your argument doesn't stand.

Sorry to hear of your frustrations, judelaw.

I would not include RME in that generalization of greedy companies nor would I consider ANY of their gear crippled in any way. Why? Because they are an industry leader, not just in supporting their products for decades but also because of their extensive feature sets for each of their product categories. Case in point, over 20 years ago I purchased a Digi96 PST internal PCI card and it still works wonderfully in my ancient windows XP computer! Not only that, RME released driver updates well beyond the usefulness of that operating system, such that if I wanted I could have moved it to newer hardware and newer OS but my XP machine is still stable to this day for recording multitrack, albeit a little bit slower on the processing side. A greedy company doesn't design a product to last for decades. An INNOVATIVE company such as RME responds to what the industry needs and users want in a product and then decides to deliver something commensurate to their quality standards, at a price (in my opinion) that is very competitive when you think about the other options out there.

I understand your frustration but we, as consumers, are responsible for "doing our homework" when it comes to buying decisions. RME does an amazing job not just in advertising their products specifications but in providing numerous instructional videos and explanations about each of their products. What other company can you say that about AND provide such excellent support and FREE resources? Caveat emptor.

Another thought I just had: I've seen 1st gen Babyfaces selling on the used market for hundreds of dollars. In some cases $500 or more. Have you thought about going that route to upgrade to a product that is more in line with your needs? Have you had the unit for a while and are just now getting to using it? Or, did you just acquire it on the used market? I'll point out that there is a section for buying/selling used gear here on the forum too

I hope you're able to move past the limitations and get back to creating, which you clearly want to do. Regardless of which gear you use, having what you think is right for you is what matters.

Good luck my friend!

-Steve

Then you should have claimed your fx can't replace lexicon high quality ones. It should be written on the box, on the manual, and on the website. I'm not saying your gear is all bad, I'm saying you should shed light on its limitations. It's the only honest way.

I'm not sure it's my skills. I've seen a few negative remarks specifically about totalmix fx / babyface reverb like 3 or 4 remarks in different places. I'm not making a case for a trial here, so I didn't bother making a screenshot of these remarks. I can give you this one though because I've seen it today or yesterday :

source : https://gearspace.com/board/music-compu … l-mix.html

When I see a few people saying the same thing I start to think there is something going on.

And to me my reaper's presets and lexicon's reverb are just fine, natural, they are not exceptional or supernatural. They're just nice. They've been making them for a long time and they don't cost much at all. My lexicon rack costs about 150 new if I remember. I suspect you're praising the lexicon reverb so that your totalmix reverb would fall in the category just under it, that is a "nice enough" reverb. Well the screenshot guy says it's questionable and I say I haven't yet managed to get a nice reverb out of totalmix fx.

It's important to have a nice reverb of yourself when singing.

euros.
The babyface first gen was 750$ when it came out, I'm not entirely sure the word "cheap" applies, and I still paid 320€ for it.
I can absolutely believe it's common sense for you or for a professional studio owner. It's not for me the average artist who is bombarded with positive reviews and marketing as soon as he looks for some insight about a product.

Again I'm not trying to make a case here, I'm not accusing you of being evil. I'm just saying that we live in a worldwide totalitarian dictatorship where only good things are allowed to be said and bad things are usually put under the rug. I'm merely suggesting that you should cope for that.