Product Review - Focusrite Scarlett 18i6

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Published in SOS February 2012

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In the new Scarlett range, Focusrite have teamed their Saffire technology with USB interfacing.
Matt Houghton
Focusrite’s Saffire range of interfaces has been hugely popular with home-studio musicians, offering them some of the best preamps in the price range, and (at least since the first model) very stable drivers on both Mac and PC. You can read my review of the Saffire at www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug09/articles/saffirepro24.htm.
The Saffire interfaces, though, all hook up to your computer via a Firewire connection. Not only can Firewire devices be a bit choosy about the chip set of the Firewire card installed in your computer, but Firewire also seems to be being phased out by computer manufacturers. We’re a long way from Firewire being dead yet, but increasingly manufacturers seem to be offering USB options. Focusrite’s new Scarlett range does just that, replacing Firewire with USB 2 as the data communication protocol. I was therefore keen to see how the performance of the Scarlett range compared with their Saffire siblings.
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Published in SOS February 2012

 

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