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The pres a basically the same as the high end digital RME pres.

The only analog input and output is 2 RCA ins and 2 RCA outs.īut they are cheap, support 96 KHz, 24-bit and they have SPDIF coaxial digital input and output - which means you can hook them up to expensive digital converters for input and output if you want to. The converters are not very good and there are no mic pres.

This is a very inexpensive card that works on older systems - it's included here partially because I started using them in 2002 and occasionally still find uses for them, even though the converters in the other interfaces listed here are noticeably betters.

M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (MSRP $99, Street $99.00) - PCI (not PCI-e, for both PC and Mac) - 96 KHz/24-bit.

Mackie Onyx Blackbird (Street $499) - Firewire - 96 KHz/24-bit.

There are accessories you can buy to connect Firewire devices to your Thunderbolt port, so don't rule Firewire interfaces out just because you have a Thunderbolt computer.Įntry level interfaces must support at least 96 KHz sampling rate, 24-bit bit depth and support some form of digital input and output.Īll interfaces offer some level of support for both Windows and OS X unless otherwise noted. Thunderbolt has massive bandwidth and some computers feature it instead of Firewire.

USB 3.0 options would be great (greatly exceeding the bandwidth of the Firewire flavors supported on the audio interfaces listed so far on paper) but the audio interface manufacturers have not readily embraced it. USB options tend to be compatible with the widest range while Firewire is the most popular type used in professional audio interfaces for the last decade. Note the interface (Firewire, PCI, USB 2.0, etc.) required and see whether it is compatible with your current hardware as well as portable to other systems. Since we have a lot of experienced audio people here, I would like to open the floor to discussing some of the options and pros and cons of different options. I noticed that in all the discussion of audio on the site, experienced people have frequently covered inexpensive mics and recorders, and occasionally covered more expensive mics and software - but we have not often covered the audio interfaces used in project studios and professional audio environments.Īudio interfaces, pres and converters determine how your sound both gets recorded and how you hear it when it plays back. For a discussion of similar but higher-end gear please visit the thread at