Good question. I guess it would be because the Focusrite has a little audio hiccup once in a while as I already mentioned. By the way, I used it all weekend without one hiccup, so you can take that for what it's worth. Also, I didn't mention before, but sometimes I'll need to turn it on and off when I first boot up my computer because it doesn't boot (or whatever you want to call it) properly. These extremely small glitches that don't bother me in the least. It takes 2 seconds to power it on and off and the other problem is very rare and I'm not sure that it's actually the sound card or the computer (hackintosh on 10.6.eggnchips wrote:If you like them both, and the Focusrite seems to have more control/features, why do you recommend the Audiofire?Phase Ghost wrote:I've have Echo Audiofire's and a Focusrite Pro 40 and don't have a real complaint with either. The Focusrite will occasionally do a little drop out for a split second, but I'm not sure if that's the sound card or core audio fuckin up. It might happen once a session if at all.
The audiofire's (2 & 4) are built to withstand a dynamite blast. I had them daisy-chained with absolutely no problem. If I were in your shoes, I'd look at the Audiofire 8. 8 line in and out with adat and spdif. The only thing I don't like about the audiofire is there aren't any controls on the front panel. What's really nice about the focusrite is the volume knobs on the front along with 2 instruments/line inputs on the front. Both front inputs on the pro 40 have optional phantom power that can be controlled per channel. That's nice if you plug in mic's and guitars on occasion, but don't always have them in. Obviously, a patch bay could solve this problem easily, but it's proved to be very useful for me.
MOTU has a great reputation, but will cost twice as much as the one's I mentioned.
.The audiofire setup I was using didn't ever have any audio glitches, but it did have a very annoying problem where the audiofire 2 would sometimes load itself as a different device. basically, it would load as either Audiofire2(1437) or Audiofire2(0000). My macbook would think they were two different devices and I would have to switch it in the setup depending on which it decided to load. I just made two different aggregate devices and picked whichever was loaded.
The audiofire 12 doesn't have adat which is a deal breaker for me. The 8 does though. All in all, I'd pick a product from either company in a heartbeat.
Bad Converters? Explain.michaellpenman wrote: i would say no to the focusrite. there unstable and have bad converters
I just recorded a synth into logic and then plugged the same synth directly into the mixer and played the same sequence. I'm A/B'ing them and can't hear any difference at all dude. If the converters were "bad" I should be able to hear something, yeah? Just curious.
