With ten Prism Sound ADA-8 converters, installed in Steerpike Studios in 2000, the recent upgrade of Sting’s recording facility has seen it move to the Pro Tools HDX platform. ‘I was very keen to ensure that we could still use our ADA-8 converters with the new system so I ordered nine Pro Tools HDX cards from Prism Sound,’ says recording engineer, Donal Hodgson. ‘After changing the chips and the DIO interface cards, the converters worked first time.’

Prism Sound’s HDX compatible interface cards were launched 18 months ago in response to the changes Avid was making to Pro Tools: ‘The release of Pro Tools V11 on HD Native and HDX hardware saw the legacy Digidesign 96 and 192 interfaces no longer supported on these Pro Tools hardware and software systems,’ says Prism Sound, Sales & Marketing Director, Graham Boswell. ‘Avid also declared that Pro Tools v10 software would be the last to support these legacy interfaces. Our response was to create the Prism Sound HDX compatible interface card. This connects directly with the Pro Tools HDX interface cards and emulates the behaviour of the Avid HD interfaces, allowing Prism Sound conversion with Pro Tools software. Each card allows the connection of eight channels of digital audio. With four cards in two ADA-8 units, a 32-channel recording system is possible.’

For Hodgson and many other Prism Sound ADA-8 fans, the cards have proved to be a godsend: ‘I could have taken this opportunity to swap from Prism Sound conversion, but why would I want to do that when the sound quality I get from my Prism Sound units is better than anything else on the market?’ he says.

‘I have travelled all over the world and worked in many different studios but I still haven’t found an interface that comes even close to the quality I get from my ADA-8s.’

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