Looking For An Interface, Motu or M-Audio? Options

[Angel L'Vaey]

It shames me that my first topic here comes with a question, but it can't be helped.

Lately I've been doing some reconfiguration on certain rooms in the house, and I've
labeled one as my studio. I already have a Macbook Pro 15' and 2 keyboards, some
amps, microphones and even a vocal booth.

The only thing I am still missing is a good firewire/usb interface which I can use to
make more high-quality recordings of my work. I stumbled across the Motu 828 MK II,
but I can't really figure out what kind of recording hardware I really need. I have about
800 euros to spend.

I have a fundamental loathing for anything called digidesign or digitech, so I'm not buying
that.

Can anyone help me out with some information on good interfaces?

~Angel

[edit LPM, corrected the title, MOTU interface name]

This post has been edited by lepetitmartien: Wed 11 Oct 2006, 22:55

[Angel L'Vaey]

Thanks for all the feedback people.

I won't be needing a lot of I/O's, probably a maximum of 4 to 6 inputs at a time. I thought about
using the Motu 282 as a mixer for live gigs though, so the extra I/Os of the motu would be needed.

I thought the Motu already had some sort of Pre-amp build-in?

As far as pre-amps go, I'm buying a mackie mixer with build in pre-amps. Would this be enough,
or would you reccomend better / more pre-amps?

The interface will be used to:
- Record Vocals
- Record Synthesizers
- Possibly run the guitars through, even though I already have an M-Audio Blackbox
- Act as a mixer for live gigs (if I'd buy a Motu)

What Interface would be best to check out? I'm looking at the Presonus right now as well.

Regards,

Angel