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Awesome
David Matthew Inman from Wilmington, NC, USA
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This product is really dependable and durable to withstand even a mobile studio.
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I love the XMAX Preamps. The headroom is amazing on these. I also love the six outs for monitoring. I also like the fact that you can link this to a studio live board and have 8 extra inputs for recording purposes.
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I am still learning this product but I like how it is basically a plug and go. You have a few little adjustments you have to do for Pro Tools but it is nothing that difficult.
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I love this product. I use this at home to overdub vocals and instruments from live recordings and the quality is amazing.
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Great bang for the buck!
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sleek!
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Set Your Home Studio on Fire!
Michael Henningsen from Cedar Crest, NM USA
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Metal chasis, micro-notched metal knobs, crystal clear display ... very well-made.
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I'm using it as an interface-only, but it's fully loaded with everything you need to record and mix quality audio. Best feature is the pristine-sounding preamps: there's no hint of noise, even at higher gain settings. More I/O than most home/project studios will ever need, but also the ability to daisy chain just in case.
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Had to wait a week for a 400/800 FireWire adapter for my Mac, but otherwise, I simply loaded the disc, downloaded the drivers and was up-and-running in 3 minutes. Literally. Simple and elegant, just the way it should be.
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Priced a little high, but good value for the money. Noiseless preamps are priceless, so eight of 'em in one unit is pretty good.
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Looks like a pro piece of outboard gear.
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great product
chris from Hesperia ca usa
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This product works well. It's made well and works well. I love studio one it's easy to use.
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Studio one software is it's best feature . I would like to see pre.sonus come out a larger fader work station. As to features to add to this product adat would have been what I would have added.
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This product is easy to use. I'm still learning to use studio one software, but there is alot of information on the inter net.
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A very good value,and also a very good product
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It's laid out very well, I like the meter light on the face and pre amp on the front of the unit.
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Great Interface Love It!!!!!!!!
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awesome!
choske mobstars from new york city
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this is one of the best audio interfaces i bought by far and it works really great.
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i was lookin forward into buying this product because ive seen good videos of it on how its easy to use and the sound quality too.
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yes it is
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True HiFi recording at a bargain price.
Ron Miller from Dania Beach, Fla., USA
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Very solid construction. Can't believe how tight the knobs are.
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Quality of the class A pres., esthetic design, solid construction, ease of use.
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Hardware-plug and play, Studio Artist, a bit of study that is fun... I formerly used ProTools, Studio Artist is more fun to use.
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With the included Studio One Artist, wonderful value. The deciding factor for purchase was the inclusion of Studio One Artist.
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Beautiful!
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Sina Polat
Sina Polat from Istanbul / Turkey
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excellent product
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this is all well done product
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it is so easy to use
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so good
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Good price great sound
J III from Smyrna DE USA
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This thing withstands frequent moving from my home studio to band practice with no problems. When I fist got it I did have one time where it did not work when I turned it on but that may have been my computer. I restarted it and it worked perfectly. Other than that it has never let me down.
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The XLR, 1/4" combo inputs on the front make things easy to connect what ever you want. There area effects loops (send and returns) for inputs 1 & 2 which are the instrument inputs. I like those allot and wish there were more on the other channels. The preamps seem to have plenty of headroom and the LEDs for each channel is cool. The phantom power is grouped in pairs instead of one switch for the whole thing which I also relly like. The headphone amp is loud and clear. It comes with a mixer software but I have not used it. I looked at it and it looks like it would be easy to use but I just don't need it for what I am doing. I do need more channels and I think I will be getting another one and connecting them together with the fire wire connection. Overall I am very happy with this interface.
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I think this was easy to set up and very easy to use. The manual was fine but if you need more help the videos on presonus.com were helpfull also. It is nice to have something so uncomplicated. It makes it easy to record quickly with no fuss.
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I didn't find anything else in this price range with the same amount of features. I am pleased with the quality of the recordings I get with this.
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It just looks cool with all those LEDs bouncing around while recording. The blue LEDs glowing when the phantom power is on makes it easy to remember to turn it off when I change from a condenser to a dynamic mic.