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 Title of Equipment: PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL Price Paid / Price New: $199/$249 Year Manufactured: 2011 Specifications:
Sound: 4/5. The preamp for the microphone is +65dB, for the instrument input it is +50 dB. You get a good signal from the microphone and it is possible to get a good sound from plugging a guitar direct into the box. A maximum of 96 kHz sampling rate. Equipment Quality: 5/5 PreSonus have made the interface with a metal chassis. The knobs are made out of metal and have a good feel when turning them. Usefullness: 4/5. It does not have line level inputs. Overall Value: 4/5. It was worth the price I paid, $199. In this jungle there are a lot of interfaces within the price range $150 to $250. From the store I made the purchase I asked for a comparison with the Tascam US144 mkII, the same price and they had that in stock, I got a blank "No they are not comparable.". Sales talk perhaps, but there was no apparent reason for me to believe that there would be any difference for them concerning what I would end up buying. The interface does not have as many features as the Tascam product, I think that those included are well made (+65 db mic preamp spec). There are reverb/delay vsl effects that runs on the interface instead of running them through the DAW, saving a few ms of latency when monitoring and recording. The installation was a painless experience for me on Windows 7 64bit. I have yet to open the included CD's as I opted to download the drivers from the PreSonus website, with that also came an upgrade for the interface. The software included are PreSonus VSL Control/Monitor and Studio One Artist. Up to this point the interface has worked well with Cubase 4 LE and REAPER. With 256 kb buffer I get 9+9ms latency, reported from the ASIO driver. Comparing with my former interface to record the guitar, a Digitech RP500, I get a sound that I much more pleased with. The setup I use is that I plug the output from the RP500 to the Audiobox instrument input. The RP500 also uses a USB connection, to make it clear that the comparison is not made from using an instrument level output into a line level input on a sound card. The lack of line inputs feels like a drawback. erephus fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Nov 22, 2012 |
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