greetings earthlings I'm back with another interphase review for you guys
so today I'm reviewing this guy the Presonus audio box if you are interested in this interface it'll
set you back around 100 bucks on Amazon as per usual link in the description and for this video
I'm using the rode nt1 connected directly to the audio box with 48 volt phantom power turned on
and the gain set at around 50% I will do no post-processing to the audio but I'm a blue
sit in post so make sure to check the doobly-doo for more information now let's go ahead and talk
about what comes in the box obviously you're going to get the interface you get a USB cable
you get some documentation you get some software that you have to register your product online to
download and damn you you get a sticker as far as the build quality this thing feels pretty
excellent it has an all metal chassis some nice weight to it the XLR ports are not loose in the
slightest on the other hand the dials do wiggle a little bit but they do have a nice amount of
click eNOS when you're turning them on the front of the interface the first thing you'll find are
two XLR or 6.3 millimeter combo jacks you'll find a 48 volt phantom power switch you'll
find the volume control for channel 1 and 2 and directly next to those dials are lights
which will indicate when you are clipping then you'll find a mixer dial which will allow you
to mix between the latency free monitoring as well as the computer playback you'll find the
headphone volume control you'll find the main output volume control and you'll find a light
to indicate that the interface is getting power on the back of the interface you'll find the USB
plug to connect it to your computer you'll find some midi i/o you'll find a set of 6.3 millimeter
main outputs and lastly you'll find a stereo 6.3 millimeter headphone output as far as specs this
thing has a bit depth of 24-bit a sampling rate of 40 4.1 or 48 kilohertz a phantom power supply
of plus 48 volts some mic preamp gain of plus 0 to plus 35 decibels and an instrument preamp gain
of negative 30 DB to plus 50 dB my gain is still set at 50% I'm going to drop this down to zero and
slowly increase it so you can hear what kind of noise is generated by this interfaces preamps 25%
fifty percent
75% and 100% now I have the shure sm7b connected directly to the audio box with the game set at
90% and I just wanted to include this to show you how this thing performs with a notoriously
quiet microphone like the sm7b so here is the latency that I'm having you can see I have my
i/o buffer size pretty low at 64 samples and the round-trip is nine point seven milliseconds if I
were to increase this to 128 which is what I would typically use then this is going to
be twelve point six milliseconds it's not necessarily negligible but it won't be the
most noticeable thing but if you're trying to do multi tracks then this definitely will impact
your recording so here's just a quick sample of the raw guitar with the gain on to the interface
set at zero percent followed by a sample of the guitar run-through bias amp so here's a quick
overview of the settings I'm using to record both channels simultaneously I have both channels as
you can see right here set to Mono I have input one set for the microphone or my vocals and input
two over here is set for channel two and it is my guitar and the only thing I have on there is bias
amp to give me a just an amp sound what should I sing about today I don't know I've never been very
good at making lyrics so overall I think this is actually a pretty good option for a hundred bucks
on the plus side the preamps were pretty quiet all the way up to around 90 percent the build quality
of this thing is excellent you're getting two microphone preamps which you can record
to two separate channels and you get a bunch of plugins as well as a fully featured DAW but on the
downside when I was recording a passive instrument with the gain at 0% I was almost clipping so you
may run into clipping issues running a DI guitar or bass and also I think the latency could prove
to be an issue if you're recording a bunch of tracks or if you have a bunch of processing on the
tracks while you're recording them but with all that being said if you have the need for two XLR
inputs with phantom power that you can record two separate tracks and you don't want to spend over a
hundred bucks I think this is a pretty rad option alright guys well I guess that'll do it for today
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