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Phonic Firefly 302

FireWire audio interface from Phonic belonging to the Firefly series

Veridik Veridik
Published on 03/24/09 at 09:12
What characteristics have motivated your choice?
The price (129 €), phantom power supply

For what purpose?
Voice recording (vocals, rap)

What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Disk ,...)?
Front: PIV 2.6ghz (cm: P4x-400) RAM 120GB 1024 dd
Now: Pentium Dual Core 2.4Ghz (cm: Msi p35 neo-f) ram 250gb 2048 dd

With which instruments or systems (console, preamp, DTD ...) and you use the connection with what?
No special equipment, static Micro MXL 2006 (XLR) + headphones Classic
Use Adobe Audition 1.5

UTILIZATION

The installation is done it without problems?
connection, USB or FireWire, the card is recognized, however, do not forget to disable the sound chip on the motherboard and install the drivers from the cd provided.

Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
No, but sometimes it was no longer detected and no good reason, forced to disconnect and reconnect (maybe it came from my pc? Perhaps it came from the phonic?)

The general configuration is easy?
so anyway there is not much to pay since we can not resolve anything, certainly not pc. The setting in front (pots) is useful but no more.

The manual is clear and sufficient?
only in English, so obviously inadequate, especially for technical terms.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are stable?
yes

They are often updated?
made what?

What software do you use most often?
Adobe Audition 1.5

OVERALL OPINION

For how long have you been using it?
nearly 2 years

What thing do you like most/least about it?
+: Its price, its phantom power, external appearance, strength
-: Absent of Maj, quality voice recording medium, in 2 years I still have not found a suitable setting to me. Before, I check with a simple microphone via my pc (no particular card) and even when I sing high, I do not saturate. Here, we are limited vocally what prevents a lot.

Did you try many other models before getting this one?
No this is the first, he needed to have a

What is your opinion about the value for the price?
I still managed to register two albums for personal but not always being met. A little upset though for that price, should not that I expect the perfect ... whatever, it does not saturate the bare minimum, not perfection ... so bof.
Moreover, it seems that sound is crippled, because when I look back on my pc config sound, the sound volume is much larger than the map.

Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice?
bah non, more expensive, or another brand