Published 12/3/04
The Presonus Firepod
Presonus have also announced a change of UK distributor. All future product, tech support, and sales enquiries should now be addressed to Cornish company Hand In Hand (see contact details below).
The new Firepod from Presonus is a 24-bit/96kHz Firewire recording interface, with eight phantom-powered mic preamps, MIDI and S/PDIF I/O. It also comes packaged with Steinberg’s Cubase SE 48-track, 24-bit/96kHz recording software.
The Firepod, which is compatible with Windows XP and Mac OS X, features eight mic/line combi jacks on its front panel, along with individual input gain controls, a headphone output, main and headphone volume controls and a mix control, allowing the user to mix two-channel audio playback from the computer with the direct signal from the eight analogue inputs.
Phantom power is separately switchable for input 1-4 and 5-8. The Firepod is also equipped with eight balanced outputs and two balanced main outputs, all on TRS jack connectors. A second Firewire port means that multiple Firepods can be daisy-chained together.
The Firepod should be available in April, priced £599.
Presonus have also announced a change of UK distributor. All future product, tech support, and sales enquiries should now be addressed to Cornish company Hand In Hand (see contact details below).
