Sound Devices USBPRE2
Two-channel field and studio preamp that connects over USB
Two channels of microphone preamp and an audio interface in one portable box, built for location recording, with metering across the front panel and phantom power on both inputs. Owners talk about the preamps first and the durability second. It costs several times what a normal home interface does, which is why the people who own one rarely suggest it to anyone starting out.
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Stephen HackettDoes it
Technology writer · 512 Pixels and Relay
Signal goes from the microphone through a Rolls mute switch and into a Sound Devices USBPRE2. He calls the interface awesome and obscenely expensive in the same breath, and says he would not point most people at it.
Source: 512 Pixels: My Gear“Remember when I said I couldn’t recommend my gear to most people? The USBPRE2 is awesome, but it is obscenely expensive.”
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