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There are plenty of FireWire audio interfaces on the market today. But if you're a musician or engineer who insists on absolute quality, then the Onyx 400F Studio Recording Preamp with 192kHz FireWire I/O is the pre-eminent professional choice. Jointly developed by the analog engineering experts at Mackie and the digital gurus at Echo, the 400F brings superior sound, robust construction, and several "world's first" features to those looking to record to Mac or PC. And it comes bundled with Mackie's popular Tracktion 2 software for easy recording right out of the box.

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The Onyx 400F is a 10-channel premium mic preamp and FireWire audio interface featuring four boutique-quality Onyx mic preamps. These highly acclaimed preamps offer superior headroom, sonic detail, and clarity vs. the competition -- delivering 123dB dynamic range and an amazing .0007% THD --and a sound that has been widely praised as exceptionally "open" and "revealing." The Onyx 400F also offers TRS inserts for inserting your favorite outboard gear into your signal path before sending it to your Mac or PC, plus an internal 10 x 10 DSP Matrix Mixer with full recall and 64-bit floating point processing -- a feature not found on any other FireWire interface, at any price.

With four Onyx mic preamps and four line inputs, the 400F is the ideal box for tracking anything from smaller overdub-style projects to a full band. Operation is refreshingly straightforward. You simply plug in your mics and instruments to the front or rear panel, and plug a FireWire cable into your Mac or PC. The 400F's eight individual outputs can be used for surround mixing, or for sending four discrete stereo headphone mixes to a headphone amp like one of our new HM Series. For overdubs, the 400F's dual headphone outputs give both the engineer and musician their own headphone outs with independent volume control. And the internal 10 x 10 Matrix Mixer allows near-zero-latency routing of any input to any output, completely independent of your computer, with full recall capabilities.

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A common question regarding the sound quality of any digital audio interface is often "What converters does it use?" Specifically, the Onyx 400F features mastering-grade 24-bit/192kHz AKM zZounds is an authorized dealer of Mackie products.

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Sound: As an industrial musician, I need absolutely the clearest recordings I can get before I start using effects - this unit has the most pristine mic pre amps I have ever heard. After effects and mixdown, I couldn't find any interuptions or glitches to my vocals!! This is the cleanest recording unit at this price and trashes other units at much higher prices!!! Feature: The firewire cable was suppose to come with an adapter to 1394 but didn't. Mackie no longer includes that with the unit. The firewire cable itself is super long for those studio (and stage) connections. The only thing I wished Mackie had considered was lightpipe so I wouldn't have to make so many connections from the three keyboards I have (the Korg Triton Studio and Extreme have six outs and there are only 10 inputs on the Mackie). Ease of Use: I had this unit up, running and recording in about 10 minutes. 10 hours later, I realized that I was being possessed by the "Let's do it again!," sickness! Of all the equipment in my studio, this one is the easiest to use!! Quality: I can tell that the ONYX 400F is going to be the workhorse for many recordings in the studio and the stage. It's solid and gives me comfort looking at how well it is built. Value: I read a lot of forums and reviews on this product before I decided to buy and, none of the horrors I read turned out to be true for me. There was no "whine" from the unit or in any of my recordings and the drivers have worked well!! Mackie has given this unit the right price in that it only has ten inputs and outputs. You will get everything out of this that you payed for and more. I can see that even new and aspiring recording engineers or just hobbyists will find this product an excellent value!!! Manufacturer Support: I have had no need for any support. The Wow Factor: The appeal is not in the looks (though it doesn't look bad) - just hearing the final recording is enough make one very satisfied. Overall: I will buy other equipment as I need it. I can see keeping this product for a long time as I can always use it with other stuff if it becomes outdated. Since I buy for quality and the long haul, saying I made the right choice should be enough!!

Style of Music: Industrial Wall

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"Greate unit. The center of my studio. Greaet for Live gigs as a mixer great for Studio with amazing preamps and converters."

Sound: great for live use. great for studio use. great with a laptop on location. Great sound Great drivers (3.2.8). Installation was a breeze. Latency is quite low (3ms in 3ms out with 64 buffer size in 48kHz) Works on my PC with the on-board non TI FireWire chip. robust. Great features. even the service support center has improved over the past months. 192kHz 24bit sounds amazing. I would like a better meter on the front panel for inputs but I can handle the one on the unit. sounds better than the MOTU traveler or mK828. I use it as the central unit between my PC, mixing board, external effects, midi controllers, external preamps, line inputs and mics. Great value. I was afraid to buy this unit as it had some early driver problems. I never had any problem with it. Didn't work well with MacBook Pro running XP on BootCamp but that could be a SP2 FW update issue so it should be checked again. Overall: I Love this unit and I stopped using my external preamps because the sound is just good enough for me. Feature: could have a separate mix for the two headphone outputs. Ease of Use: very easy. very good. swift installation. no crashes or glitches since Quality: Built well. strong chassi. good knobs. 48V and front input buttons slightly plasticy. Value: very good Manufacturer Support: Support was terrible but got very good over the past few months. there is a new team for dealing with Onyx products. The Wow Factor: I don't get overwhelmed by 'must have it' sex-appeal looks

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