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Rating And Reviews: PreSonus AudioBox 1818VSL

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"Presonus 1818vsl" submitted April 22, 2012

By Reginald W in Louisville, KY
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Musical Background: I've been a singer and producer for 18 years.
Music Style: Hip Hop, R&B
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Overall: Nicely built unit..Very quiet preamps.Virtual Studio Live is awesome. IPAD control not out at the time of this review. I use this in conjunction with Studio One Professional. Very easy to get set up...
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"Presonus AudioBox 1818VSL performance" submitted December 1, 2012

By Mike Patterson in Arrington, VA
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Musical Background: Professional free to musicians recording studio with all instruments supplied.
Music Style: All styles of recording accepted at Mike AX-UP Studios.
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Overall: The Presonus AudioBox 1818VSL is a professional high quality awesome USB interface.This complete system is the foundation for our studio and works flawlessly.The factory support and online support from Presonus is beyound expectations. zZounds engineers helped our studio in our search for the perfect DAW platform and we are hooked on Presonus. Thank you zZounds!
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"Great deal, Great interface. No buyers remorse here!" submitted January 11, 2012

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Sound: Clear, clean pre-amps with a lot of gain available. I tracked 8 channels last week on drums and every track is clean and well behaved. I tracked at fairly low levels and brought the tracks up when mixing with little to no noise increases. I'm very impressed with how this sounds. The VSL monitoring program is very good. The channel strip on each input is nice. The parametric EQ and compressor sound great for clean, uncolored effects. The delay effect is basic, but sounds like a clean, standard digital delay. I'm not super impressed with the included reverb, but for monitor mixes it works just fine. Feature: Tons of inputs and outputs. The ability to use the channel strip and effects on each channel is likely to be more than I will ever use. I do wish the channels in the VSL software could be labeled with custom labels (rather than 1, 2, 3, etc) The knobs and chassis are aluminum. Solid feel and feedback. The knobs have detents, which I like. Ease of Use: Get your thinking hat out, because this is a complicated piece of equipment. It is designed to be that way however, so it should come as no surprise. If you're buying this, you already know you need to read the manual. So get to it. However, if just you plug it in, load the drivers and press record, it will work. The first time I ever pressed record on this I recorded 8 channels for three hours. No problems. Quality: Physically, this thing will last a long time if you keep it racked. It looks good. I wouldn't suggest you drop it or spill fluids on it however. One thing I'm keeping an eye on however: it seems to get pretty hot when left on. I've left it on overnight, etc and I just don't do that anymore. Value: Price per channel this is a fantastic deal. A no brainer for those on a budget wanted an 8+ channel USB interface. Overall: I expect to use this until I have a need to record either more than 16 channels simultaneously or I need to record 16 channels at more than 24 bit 96k
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