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Rating And Reviews: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

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"Perfect Portable Interface! " submitted August 6, 2012

By Mike O in Lehighton, PA
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Musical Background: I'm a singer/songwriter and producer of various music genres. 20 years of experience.
Music Style: I produce everything from folk, pop rock, dance, Christian to electronic and metal!
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Overall: A few months back I was looking to build out a portable recording rig with my new MacBook Pro. I was looking for a high quality audio interface that wouldn't put me in the poorhouse. Having already owned the Saffire Pro 40 in my desktop studio rig, I was already familiar with the Focusrite brand. The Scarlett 2i2 did NOT disappoint. The device installed easily and works flawless with my MacBook pro in both Pro Tools 9 and Presonus Studio One 2. I've tracked both 1/4in and XLR and the focusrite preamps delivery quality sound. The bus powered USB device even draws enough juice to provide phantom power to my vocal condensor- which I loved. I routinely jack my guitar direct into the Scarelett for use with Guitar Rig or other amp modeling software. I know some other folks reviewing this said you would need a signal attentuator to keep the guitar signal from peaking out. What I've found is that you flip the switch from INST to LINE and that solves that issue immediately. I haven't needed any additional signal attentuator- and I'm running guitars with active pickups. Overall, EXCELLENT PRODUCT! The only issue I had was with installing the Scarlett Plug-in Suite. The CD jacket was missing the activation code for the plugins. The great folks at ZZounds were able to get me over to the Focusrite support team and they generated a new code for me! Problem solved.
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"2i2" submitted June 8, 2012

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Overall: OK. Here's the skinny on the 2i2. The preamp is amazing for this price point. Good luck finding a better one even in the $500 audio interface range. Yeah I mean that seriously. It is velvety smooth and extremely quiet... but, you will need an attenuator for active pickups. Buy a cheap $20 inline attenuator if you don't already have one because otherwise you'll clip the input stage. Even a single coil will clip fairly easy. Not sure why they didn't include a pad but you have been warned. If you're playing humbuckers, forget it! You'll clip with the gain all the way down unless you turn down the volume on your guit. Other than that it's a sweet lil interface. The Scarlett suite too is excellent. Plugins don't usually impress me but these did. The reverb plugin is now my goto reverb. It sounds lush, warm and gorgeous like an analog verb. They're not real surgical plugs but they really don't need to be because they sound so good. Obviously you won't be buying this for flexible routing, but for $149 this is one sweet sounding interface.
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"Latency" submitted December 21, 2012

By Rick Ramey in jackson, MI
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Overall: I am no expert and new to digital but their is a gap when recording multitracks and I read its because of MME as opposed to the better ASIO. I had to guess at 140 ms shift to locate the start of a new track. Now shouldnt MME be part of the desciption if this much gap is their? Im taking it back
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"Great starter Audio Interface/Recording Software SUCKS" submitted April 13, 2012

By Johnny G in Grand Haven, MI
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Musical Background: 47 years on the 12 string guitar. I play professionally and jam at home as well
Music Style: Folk/Folk Rock
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Overall: It is a no brainer to install. I cannot give a high five though on the recording software that is included. Ableton Live Lite 8 in my opinion sucks. I suggest either using Audacity which is a free download or Mixcraft 5. I personally like Mixcraft 5 because it is VERY user friendly and I have already made some very nice recordings using it.
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