Will Forte kills it in this one, but I wish they did something different with Jason Sudeikis and Amy Poehler, or at least not cut to them so frequently.
Like, I bet if you asked 10-year-old him what he'd be remembered for in hundreds of years, he isn't going to guess it's his slightly oversized name on a piece of paper.
My wife is a voiceover artist, I'm her producer and number one fan. She's professional level and does high-level work, so we've been in the process of slowly upgrading her recording setup and space as she's gotten more and more work.
I'm adding a second interface to our home studio setup so that I can work on my own projects while she records, so I'm taking her Scarlett 2i2 and we're getting her a new one, ideally something with only one input that doesn't have too many bells and whistles, just high quality preamps, etc. I wouldn't have considered upgrading her Scarlett because it works well for her, but since we need another interface anyway, I figured I'd learn something along the way if nothing else.
Where I'm struggling with finding information is what makes some of these more expensive interfaces better for recording than the Scarlett. A lot of the advice online comes down to:
Those things are all true and helpful for most people asking about them. But the way I'm trying to process it is more along the lines of… she's growing her career and I'm trying to scrape out every possibility that could give any tiny bit of advantage, because she's in this for the long haul, so squeezing out even 1% better quality should ideally make the upgrade pay for itself over a long enough span. The room is properly sound treated and as good as we can realistically make it in our current setup, we have a nice collection of higher mics, and she's a world-class talent (I'm also pretty biased). So the interface is the current weak link in our chain of things I can realistically do anything about.
Is there any real material benefit in terms of recording quality to upgrade the interface to something like an RME, even on a very minute level, or is the difference impossible to hear anyway (like recording at 192kHz)? I'm not an expert on all things audio, but I have an okay understanding of it, and I'd like to figure out what's actually happening when one interface has a better noise floor or transient response than another, and why that might improve her recording quality.
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