Topic: NEW: Allen & Heath ICE-16 recorder

[cybergaloot]

Certainly wont be for everyone but here's a new contender for the multichannel market:
http://www.allen-heath.com/uk/Products/pages/ProductDetails.aspx?catId=ICE16&ProductId=ICE16&SubCatId=

    16 analogue Inputs, 16 analogue Outputs
    Front USB socket for easy capture to USB storage devices
    Hybrid FireWire (IEE1394) / USB2 .0 16x16 audio interface
    Industry standard wav file format
    Up to 6 hours of 16 channel audio on a 32GB USB stick
    Signal Present and Peak LED metering on each channel
    Mono headphone bus for Input or Output monitoring
    Daisy chain multiple units over FireWire
    Familiar Transport buttons and intuitive controls

[yltfan]

What's the street price going to be?

[cybergaloot]

I don't know. I saw 750 pounds mentioned in one article but don't know what the street price will be in US money. The make good sound boards with good preamps. I have a Zed-22fx that I use for most of my projects to mix to stereo on the fly and I like it. I have no doubt they will put as much care into the recorder however I'm beginning to look in other directions. I've seen a PreSonus board that records and has wireless control via iPad, iPhone or a laptop and has wireless monitoring (I think). How good the PreSonus is I don't know but I like that idea. More and more devices now have wireless iPad control but an affordable board with remote control motorized faders seems like a sweet idea. By the time I have the money I'll probably be onto another idea.

[Gutbucket]

Looks pretty cool and very straighforward.

[yltfan]

How much of an issue is this: "Signal Present and Peak LED metering on each channel"?

[Gutbucket]

Just sufficient to make sure it's working.  I imagine it will have more substantial metering available though the remote interfaces- be that computer or i-thing.

[cybergaloot]

I'm waiting to see how this will compete with the JoeCo recorders. But as I said, I'm now looking into remote controllable boards that also record like the PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 ( http://www.presonus.com/products/StudioLive-24.4.2 ) What I don't know is that PreSonus board is just a bunch of pretty lights with a mediocre functionality or actually a decent machine.

[Chris K]

lost me with no adat lightpipe inputs since I am using a couple yammy 01V boards

[cybergaloot]

Yeah, analog inputs only but that is still the most universal. That's changing though.