Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (2017 model) dead line out

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Amazing Fix Ian,
I'm sure you had a great laugh

 

[ruffrecords]

Amazing Fix Ian,
I'm sure you had a great laugh

My wife thinks I'm losing it. She may be right.

Cheers

Ian

 

[fragletrollet]

Focusrite Scarlett drivers are rock solid, I can vouch on that.
I don’t use them myself in my studio or for my personal recording/mixing/mastering work but I teach in 2 different schools were both have Scarlett interfaces and the drivers work great and and very solid, never had any problem with them.

I can only recommend, without any doubts a Scarlett to anyone that is on a budget, they will be really well sorted




I find all the budget, low cost interfaces to have the same quality in terms of AD/DA conversion, not top notch but all of them good enough for home recording and Demos. Some home recordings might end up in the final record, which can be fine.

I use a Focusrite Red4Pre which is the top of the range in terms of Focusrite interfaces and the AD/DA conversion in those units is simply outstanding, they got everything right, but it’s an expensive interface.
I can’t really vouch for reliability as my Red4Pre just lost all its outputs from one day to the other really messing up my present work, so or I was very unlucky or they can be unreliable, I don’t know at the moment if it's one or the other. I will still have it fixed because I love the sound of that interface




I have yet to see that happen.
Never in 20 years of working in this area I have ever seen that, people that have a $100 interface normally have some Rode or TBone budget mics, and no outboard Mic Pres or Compressors, a $100 interface will just have maximum of 2 inputs, so not much gear to plug into there.

Although some cheap mics can be quite good like the TBone Ribbon mics. I’ve just used a pair of $100 TBone mics on a Piano next to a pair of vintage Neumann U67 and I like both sounds.

I can't say the same for any Rode Mic though

Good to hear, my Saffire firewire was an ever-lasting loop of usb-dropouts and instability, similar to my Native Instruments cards, TC Electronics among others.


I am also pretty sure Ian owns tube gear for more than 100$

Either way, he found a solution to his imagined problem so all is good :=)

 

[Khron]

Good to hear, my Saffire firewire was an ever-lasting loop of usb-dropouts and instability, similar to my Native Instruments cards, TC Electronics among others.

Pick one...

 

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I am also pretty sure Ian owns tube gear for more than 100$

As far as I know Ian uses this soundcard for a small and easy measuring setup, thats why Ian refers the upper frequency limit of most interfaces.

The interface is not used to record professional bands and records using 3K or 10K worth of gear connected into it as far as I know….