hey everybody welcome back to podcast egde my name is band Erwin today I'm
back with part one of three of the scarlet solo studio pack review series
you may be asking why I am splitting it up into three different parts mainly because reviewing
three different components a microphone a headset in an interface and one video would
make it too long and I don't want to do that to you and I've also had people request I review
individual components so if they're looking for a review of the CM 25 or the HP 60 headphones
they can find that as well okay so if you are interested in this studio pack it will
set you back about 200 bucks and I will link that as well as each individual component if
I can find it in the video description down below today I'm going to be focusing on no pun intended
the Focusrite solo USB audio interface and I'll go ahead and walk you through all the features
and everything and I do also want to mention this is listed as compatible with PC and Mac
so I don't think I really need to do a what's in the box for this video because I'm splitting
it up into three different sections and also that information is on the Amazon page and I just want
to go ahead and get right into the review and the tests so as far as the build quality it actually
feels really nice it is a nice metal chassis all the dials are nice and firmly attached none of
the actual input ports wobble around too much everything just feels like it's really nicely
attached and like it's meant to last and not like a cheap plastic USB audio interface okay let's go
ahead and walk through everything on the front of this interface channel one right here is what
I'm plugged into and it is an XLR input only it is not a combo input directly next to the input
we have the game control for channel one and as you can see around the ring it lights up green
when it's getting a signal and when we start to clip it gets red so that's really easy to tell
how you're doing on your gain and if you're clipping right below that we have the phantom
power button so right now you can see it's lit up and that means phantom power is on and here is a
quick test of the actual voltage showing you we're getting about forty seven and a half volts going
to the microphone which is hands-down the best I've seen for any USB interface that I've used
so far channel 2 right here has a six point three millimeter or a quarter inch input directly next
to that input we also have another game control which has the same features the light-up ring
and everything but directly beneath it we have a switch to switch between instrument and line
if you're plugging in a guitar or a bass you will use instrument if you're plugging in a microphone
like the SM 48 or any microphone that does not need phantom power you will switch to line right
there lastly on the front we have the headphone volume control we have a 6.3 millimeter headphone
output so you can have monitoring and lastly we have the direct monitor on-and-off switch
which allows you to turn on or off zero latency monitoring so on the back we only have two things
to look at we have the RCA outputs which allow you to run this into whatever monitors you're
using and then we have the USB port right there so that's actually all the buttons and knobs on
this thing I hope that explains that but let's go ahead and keep going with this so as far as
resolution it records a 24-bit and records a 96 kilohertz conversion rate I also want to note
that when you're plugged into the XLR portion of this interface it records the left-hand audio when
you're plugged into the channel to input that records to the right-hand side of the audio so
if you're only recording one microphone you will have to make slight adjustments in post but it
shouldn't be that difficult now I'm going to go ahead and shut up drop the gain on channel 1 to
0 and slowly increase it so you can hear what kind of noise is generated by this thing 50%
75%
100% and also I want to point out you cannot get any phantom power on channel 2 because it is 1/4
inch or 6.3 millimeter input that doesn't get any phantom power so the overall sound I think
is pretty great beneath 75% if you keep it between 50 and maybe 65 percent I think you're going to
be golden this thing sounds pretty nice but once you start to get into the high percentages 75 in
higher it gets pretty dang noisy so I think this is a great option as a starting audio interface
it has really low noise when you're in the medium gain settings it has really easy monitoring and
zero latency monitoring it has those nice halos around the game controls so you can really easily
tell when you're clipping or when you're not and it also actually provides a full 48 volts
of phantom power on channel 1 which is awesome if you're going to be using a condenser microphone so
if you were to buy just the audio interface it would set you back a hundred bucks and I think
that's absolutely fair for what you're getting here it sounds really nice it has really nice
features and all-around I would highly recommend it alright well that will do it for part 1 of the
scarlet solar recording pack review series if you have any more questions about this audio interface
leave them in the comments down below and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can if you
are interested in this interface or the pack I will link both of those in the description
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below and I think that will do it I will see you all later thanks for watching bye