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A slightly different voice on input.
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I was looking at Focusrite and Audient interfaces, but may wait until these come out.
Buy any audio interface you like and an SSL channel strip.
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I really don't buy in to the idea that audio quality is really going to make a difference.
It's like how on some forums it's the done thing to talk about the importance of mic preamps but the difference is so subtle I reckon a lot of the people are either just joining in and repeating what they've been told and/or it's the placebo effect.
I'd put my money on people not being able to hear the difference between something recorded on these and something recorded on an existing focusrite etc.
Every time I've moved up the audio interface scale to my current SPL Crimson, I've heard the difference. From an M-Audio Delta 44 PCI card, I added an external TC DAC and heard the difference. Then the Crimson came along and wham so much more open. I've had the same monitors for 15 years and you can hear the difference between the Crimson and the NI KA2 I use on my laptop. Whether that 'better' sound makes any real difference when recording etc is debatable.
So I think it's fair to say that the low end interfaces are getting better in terms of sound quality. The difference is drivers aren't developing at the same rate. Many companies buy in drivers rather than develop their own. RME obviously develop their own and so do Zoom.
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Thus far, no reports of bad driver performance or poor manufacturing. The MOTU M2 and M4 are getting reports of driver and product issues. Aiming to pick up the SSL2 in the next couple of months to compare to my Crimson Mk 1.
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It's hard to believe it'll be a tiny SSL4000 in a box, mind. It'll have the same quality pres, AD/DA, line amps etc as anything else in that price range. It just says SSL on the front.
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It's just something that you notice while you're recording, so you're involved in the process enough to actually notice what they're doing. If you're looking at A/B tests online or trying to judge the sounds after the fact, you can't separate the effect the preamp's had from anything else that shaped the record, from the string gauge used for the guitar solo to the fact the mix engineer had awesome sex the night before and was in a really good mood while he mixed it.
Go and record a vocalist in a decent studio with good monitoring and do a shootout between a UA610 and a half decent Focusrite channel strip (just to give an example of one I've done). There's a difference, you'll prefer one to the other.
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RME rule the roost on latency.
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Headphones with impedance < 80 ohms might struggle a bit more.
Higher noise when gain cranked past 8.
Otherwise I read it is solid even on windows 10 and sounds fantastic.
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Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/