Top 3 Audio Interface's

[Zombietakeover]

that's the craziest thing i have ever heard. I'm pretty sure the the inside's are the same on the 400 and 800....where does it say there different?

 

[CatharsisStudios]

find a used presonus firepod ? fucking love the firepod hasn't done me wrong yet

 

[xconnyx]

Can do it via ADAT like any other external pre no problem and still have control over the ADAT inputs and stuff with the software.

yeah i know. but actually i dont want to use adat converters. i would like to use an interface with at least 24ins (ballanced, with pre, pad and phantom each channel) or cascaded interfaces. this is why i ask for the cascade mode.

i heard you can wire up the motu 8pre to four units in one firewire chain. this would mean 32ins (pre, pad, phantom each channel) 8outs, plus 8 channel adats each unit.

i need an interface that is able to be used for live recording and studio. since all digitals have adat out i need adat. since not every analog console has a volume controlled direct out i need the pres with pad function. i maybe use room/audition mics and measurement mics for live which need phantom. so i need phantom individually to not get in trouble with the foh or the monitor console (or both).

this is why i'm thinking about the motu 8pre four times...

anyone owns the 8pre or knows the pres or the ad/da conversion?

 

[WestCoastCrush]

Heard it from the guys at work. Also customers who would rent them and shoot them out not knowing the fact noted that the Fireface 800 was audibly better. The proof, as they say, is in the pizzudding.

 

[Melodeath]

"audibly better" than what?

 

[Metaltastic]

The FF400, I assume