Topic: Questions about the Fostex FR2-LE

[jadedphan]

Hey now,

So I'm thinking about picking one of these units up, and had a few questions for the gurus....

first off, they are **much** cheaper on ebay.  I will be running schoeps cmc64's directly into the unit, and will very rarely use this unit to board tape (most of the board tapes i make i am running the desk, and just use a laptop).

so,

do the oade mods sound radically different from the stock units..do they make roughly 300 dollars difference sonically?  how do the busman mods compare to the oades (sound and costwise)?

I have been running the mk4's directly into an ad1000 (rev C), at 16 bit.  i know that the 1000's went through several different preamp revisions...how do the stock/oade/busman mods stack up to the rev c apogee units?

If all these questions have been discussed already, please direct me to the threads off list.

thanks for everyone's thoughts,
-bry

[willndmb]

i have only run mine stock and find it to be pretty good as long as your source is loud enough
the bm mod is 175 lots of people love it - i want to get it but just have not had time and money really
because they are so cheap on ebay it seems most people go that route - i have only seen a couple of oade mod ones talked about