ADA8200 Ultragain : New life for old(er) kit!

I've been using a MOTU 828mkII for years now and I love it, but I never really explored really how much it can do. I added the ADA8200 to the MOTU and now have and additional 8 inputs and 8 outputs on my interface which opens a whole load of opportunities for my studio - I now have the drum kit fully mic'd up.

The ADA8200 doesn't have a lot to setup - I literally plugged in the optical cables between the MOTU and ADA8200, set the clock source (I've tried slaving the ADA8200 from the MOTU with both Word Clock and ADAT Optical and haven't found there to be any difference between them), and away we go (you have to tell the MOTU to use the ADAT channels).

The audio quality of the preamps is great though I'm not using any gain, and the phantom power (which is a single selection, common to ALL inputs) is very helpful for driving a Behringer DI800 at the other end of the Snake 164.

The improvement to workflow was instant - I spend time recording now, rather than messing around plugging and unplugging bits for kit!