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But people who are new to recording don't know about this stuff and get trumped by the marketing and shops pushing these boxes for profits. If the mic preamp gain is low, you will get more noise, especially with lower volume sources and dynamic or ribbon mics. What is the real measured roundtrip latency (around 5ms is good) and does it hold up with real projects? And how much gain do the mic preamps have (around 60 db is good)? If the latency is high, you can feel it when tracking, and it can cause subtle performance timing issues.
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It seems that most audio interface manufacturers avoid these two aspects in their specs (or try to obscure it in some way), which are about the most important features of an audio interface. And in their lower cost stuff, the preamps don't have much gain.
#FOCUSRITE SCARLETT 2I2 REVIEWS DRIVERS#
So more testing tomorrow, I hope.įocusrite stuff tends to have pretty mediocre drivers (latency being on the higher side). Guitar -> pedalboard ->Mooer Audiofile -> Scarlett -> AudacityĮ: Panned quieter stuff little left and right, but no other post-prosessing. Earlier it was constant battle with the pedal settings and Steinberg's gain knob. Then put some quieter stuff around it, to see if I can record them without juggling with Scarlett's gain knob. And banged the chords quite brutally too It looked fine and consistent. Tried to stack overdrives and other pedals for the rhythm guitar, to test clipping. (Don't mind about sounds or actually anything, just played around.) And whole this digital recording stuff is quite new to me. Of course, can't compare with 1st/2nd gen Scarletts because never owned one. There's definitely more headroom to play with than the old UR-22 had. Ok, got delivery this morning and now trying it for the first time (Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, 3rd gen)