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 Presonus Firebox Reviews?, Anyone actually use this yet? |
 Mon 23 Oct 2006, 05:30
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Thanks for the input, my friend! I appreciate the advice.
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Tue 24 Oct 2006, 17:09
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QUOTE (hahaworld @ Mon 23 Oct 2006, 04:30)  Thanks for the input, my friend! I appreciate the advice. HaHaWorld If you meant my post, by all means you're welcome!  It's nice to be of any help...I guess the things that are worth paying for are exactly the mic pre's and the A/D converters, which seem to have quite a big say when dealing with digital recordings. I guess that's exactly where RME and MOTU shine. Good luck! |
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Thu 26 Oct 2006, 10:46
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QUOTE I guess that's exactly where RME and MOTU shine. And where Metric Halo shines even brighter 
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Thu 26 Oct 2006, 10:59
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 11-Jul 04 From: Helsinki - FI Member No.: 46,740 |
QUOTE (rickenbacker @ Thu 26 Oct 2006, 09:46) And where Metric Halo shines even brighter Guess I don't have to ask what interface you are on. Really wish I could try such out. Apogee's products might also keep it's sides in this run.
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Fri 27 Oct 2006, 14:00
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Adelaide - AU Member No.: 80,014 |
I'm actually going to pick up a firebox tomorrow, and I got a powerbook g4 1.67ghz w/ os 10.4.8, 2gb ram, and I mainly use Reason 3.0.5 and Live 6.0.1
and I'll tell you how it goes
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Sat 28 Oct 2006, 06:26
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Adelaide - AU Member No.: 80,014 |
Alrighty... its all plugged in, and sadly... I find that Reason and Live seems to be a bit slower.. and I dont know what I did different except dropping the sample rate from 512 (which i used on the built-in audio) to 256..
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Sat 28 Oct 2006, 13:21
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 24-Apr 04 From: Knoxville - US Member No.: 41,728 |
DON'T DO IT!
The Firebox has given me lots of grief on my Quad G5. The volume knob keeps shorting out, and very often I have to re-enable Core Audio because it quits communicating with my Mac. I don't recommend the Firebox at all. Read some of the other posts here and go with MOTU or some other more reliable and higher-end interface. Cheers! HaHaWorld |
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Sat 28 Oct 2006, 19:37
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Adelaide - AU Member No.: 80,014 |
Ive used it for a solid hour, and I've no problems with mine seriously, I think its the daisy-chaining issue, where I've got a firewire hdd, connected to my powerbook, and the firebox is daisychained to the hard drive.. im gonna put usb on the drive, an firewire directly to the firebox and see how i go!
thanks for the warning though
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 17:32
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Member Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 26-Sep 03 From: Toronto - CA Member No.: 25,510 |
hey,
i'm looking at getting either a firebox or the wee presonus inspire... I think the Inspire will handle whatever I need, but just looking for some advice... Should I be worried about unbalanced outputs? (Planning on getting KRK RP6's as monitors). Whatabout daisy-chaining Inspire (or Firebox) to an external FW drive into my MBP? Anything other quality issues I should be worried about with the Inspire? Thanks, Dan |
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 21:03
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Adelaide - AU Member No.: 80,014 |
oh before you get a firebox, since you have a macbook pro, you may want to check THIS out, and other folks should too, VERY MAJOR ISSUE!!!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?t...9&tstart=75 This post has been edited by mechcon: Wed 22 Nov 2006, 21:05 |
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