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Product Review - Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 DSP

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Published in SOS November 2009

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Focusrite expand the Saffire range with their new Virtual Reference Monitoring technology.
Hugh Robjohns
The original Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 Firewire interface was reviewed by our own Matt Houghton in the August issue of SOS, with its more expensive siblings reviewed in the January (Saffire Pro 40) and May (Liquid Saffire 56) editions. Much of the underlying hardware and control software is common across the range, with the same preamp circuitry and similar routing and mixing functions — in fact, the only physical difference between the Pro 24 and the Pro 24 DSP is the addition of a second headphone output (with its own volume control). Rather than cover that ground again, let’s move right on to the new facilities.
The new DSP functionality serves two separate roles, the first being ‘latency free’ dynamics and EQ processing on the two primary inputs (and applicable to the record or monitor signals, or both), and ‘comfort’ reverberation that can be added to the input monitoring while tracking. The second role is Focusrite’s new Virtual Reference Monitoring (VRM) system, which claims to help make headphone listening a more natural and familiar experience when mixing — although this processing is only available on the first headphone output, I’m afraid (although it’s also on line out 3-4, which shares the same software mixer).
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