Would the Presonus Firepod be good for me?

[ParsonsMatt]

I plan on recording bands in my home studio. Right now I am using an M-Audio Delta 66 and getting pretty good results, but I want to move to a Firewire/Laptop interface. That's why I've been looking at the Presonus Firepod.

I have also been considering recording live shows. Would it be alright to get another Firepod, and hook it up there, and record like that? Or is there a better way to record?

Thanks!

 

[Wolfeman]

The firepod would work great for what you want to do. The thing you should look at though, is would you be better off with something like the Firestudio? Take a look at both. The Firestudio has a lot more extras on it that you might find handy. If not, go with the cheaper Firepod. I use it, it works great, and is actually very portable......

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

The firepod would work great for what you want to do. The thing you should look at though, is would you be better off with something like the Firestudio? Take a look at both. The Firestudio has a lot more extras on it that you might find handy. If not, go with the cheaper Firepod. I use it, it works great, and is actually very portable......

I tried recording a pop band's rehearsal live with a Firepod last weekend. Miced BD, snare, bass, guitar and two vocals, worked like a charm! Of course you can get yourself another one and hook it up to the first Firepod, since 8 (10 total with the two SPDIF's) channels probably isn't quite enough for every live situation.

 

[ParsonsMatt]

Thanks! I'll get one for sure. Just have to watch that price and see if it goes down even more..

 

[HeadCrusher]

Don't wait too long though, stocks are limited as they no longer produce the FirePod! (I might get myself a second one too, currently it's 399 in Europe.)

jhakwe: do you have a clip of that recording you did at the rehearsal? I'm gonna be doing that sort of thing soon too so I'm interested what I can expect. Need only be a short clip just to get the idea. Thanks!

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Unfortunately no My PC took a shit on me once again. I checked everything before leaving the recording place and all seemed OK, but when I put my rig back together at home, *all* the recorded tracks had disappeared. About 2,7 gigs of recorder audio was gone. Luckily we were just testing the Firepod and other equipment with a local band, so no actual lossess, but fuck if that would happen in a real situation. I've got to get a new computer soon.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Hm, that's too bad, sorry man...

 

[aramism]

i have two firepods daisy chained together.


in hinesight i would ratehr of spend an extra couple $$$ and gotten the firestudio for the optical inout so i can daisy with a better itnerface in the future.


but the two firepods work great. you can chain a bunch of them up together but cant connect to anythign else as easily.