All user reviews for the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

Needing a sound card to make measurements Speaker / HP (impedance curve, linear frequency ...). I was looking for with a balanced output, microphone input not too expensive with phantom power, 2 lines IN and USB for easy task!

Scarlett at the then déboulée field completing this specification, other brands do not seem to offer this cost. Add to this a 96Khz sampling and 24-bit resolution.

UTILIZATION

Given my use no regrets stability, but I must say that I do him no harm! However, drivers in windows are a joke you just get the buffer size settings, yay ... very light on this point, but hey!

GETTING STARTED

Gain entry often too sensitive to be forcing the knobs to a minimum and therefore limiting measures power (including the impedance!), Or it must review the voltage divider input sound card (ARTA scheme)!

Level too low output for the symmetric! This may be the cause of the USB power alone card, but sure thing it is not powerful enough to directly power a DCX2496 for example!

OVERALL OPINION

I think my comments are enough to understand that we value for money no more!

She is beautiful, she looks new compared to other sound cards.
And for the record, with two XLR / Jack, making it ideal for recording "home."

UTILIZATION

I only use it with Cubase 5.
There is no latency.

GETTING STARTED

No problem due to the installation.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been almost a year, this is my first sound card, and I'm very satisfied, I recommended it!
It has only two inputs jack / xlr, but for my use it is enough

So conclusion, good sound card level quality / price!

lamarque focusrite motivated by the quality of the preamps, the simplicity of the interface and pretty look! book but also with live lite and a suite of plug ins focusrite

use home studio miking guitar di REAMP, condenser microphone voice, acoustic ...

used with Logic 9 and live, mac 10.6 4g ram, intel i 5

UTILIZATION

until here everything is fine, everything is going well up here .......

except at the latency, I find high with logic, such roundtrip 10 ms, buffer 32 .... That said, even at 32 in buffer, no cracking, its IMPECC during a test instrument with Guitar plugs ....

not tested but I imagine that you can not record two tracks simultaneous bp in all cases jono mcclery get there in the video promo ..... ilpeut do so, we must all be able to do ....

GETTING STARTED

no comment, logical and simple

OVERALL OPINION

notice brand new, so most impression, j updaterai gradually and measuring bp or tips!

but for the price and have the focusrite preamp super in his home studio c is cool! it says it's still a basic interface with only 2in as its name indicates, no MIDI or spdif .... but for my use c is perfect!

The Scarlett 2i2 is produced by Focusrite, it seems to be a pretty standard interface for the home musicians looking to have quick and painless way to lay down some demos. It provides a very good quality on the go, and it should work with any system and any interface. One of the main things about the FocusRite Scarlett 2i2 is that it can be used in Pro Tools. They actually advertise that it will work in Pro Tools and use that as a selling point. I have never used it in Pro Tools but I have heard good things from others saying how well it works with it. The price tag on the Scarlett 2i2 was 200 dollars when it first came out which I though was a fair price for an interface that was very universal and worked in the all mighty Pro Tools.


UTILIZATION

The latency is very low and we never had the need to update the drivers because they worked great. We used it to record some very basic stuff, no more than one track recording at a time on our laptop that was running Windows Vista.


GETTING STARTED

Only problem we had with the FocusRite Scarlett 2i2 is when first installing it to my laptop we got a few error messages when plugging it in after the restart of the system. It wouldn’t recognize, so we just did the whole process over again and reinstalled everything and then got no more error messages.


OVERALL OPINION

The Scarlett 2i2 is a compact interface that can give you a solid at home recording for a small price. The price has come down on this interface about 50 bucks and cost around 150 now. The value for the price is top notch and I recommend getting this over a lot of other interface for the Pro Tools set up. This is cheaper and works just as well as some of the other “leading” interfaces for Pro Tools.

See data from the manufacturer.
Very honorable for that price, it was better from 250 €.

UTILIZATION

I use it mainly in live monitoring mode to repeat:
Latency perfect, unnoticeable <10ms, and without "noise" of the latency, even with nothing to report all VST provides activated.
Better sound quality than my Q. Three Joekeem
They are very good.
Monitoring closely the knob must be turned all the way to have a standard line Hon.
Very good finish.
I use reaper.

I never tried other audio interfaces.
The preamps are better than those of an invoice Alesis multimix.
However, a mixing desk, she has gain reserve, not a USB sound card.

GETTING STARTED

No problems with drivers, no crashes on W7 64-bit / 4 cores.

OVERALL OPINION

I was first disappointed by the lack of gain, but it turns out that I am very satisfied:

Then after a month: no worries of drivers, very small, portable, beautiful, LED clipping very practical, very good VST fournits ...
For € 135 it's a steal.

I did not want to acquire quadcapture because it is more expensive and unnecessary option for me because I regretted the lack of gain, but I had the same worries, even worse, on the latter: So I do not regret my choice.

For € 135 you'll get a red jewel in addition sounds great!
I would do this choice!
Remember, this is my first sound card.

What characteristics have motivated your choice? : Connections varied (Mic / Line / Inst), the mobile side (no external power supply), the metal frame and reputation for quality Focusrite.
Do not forget, in these times of crisis, the price .... Only € 135.

EDIT: and of course the bundle plug-in Scarlett (which by itself already costs € 99)

For what purpose? : I chose this card to use a semi-nomadic.
I wanted a card is easy to implement, to record my electric guitar (live or via my Tonelab) and if necessary, my acoustic guitar through my microphone StudioProjects B1 mkII. So I had to at least one input Line / Inst and Line / Mic with 48V. Here, for once, I have two entries Line / Mic / Inst.
I use a Laptop K52JT (core i5-480M, 4GB DDR3, Seagate 500GB, 7200 rpm, SATAII) with Windows 7 64bit. For now, I have not installed Ableton Live Lite that comes with, because I find too "Lite". I work with REAPER 4.

UTILIZATION

I have the card for 4 days, so it is difficult to judge the stability of the driver. However, I have not had any crashes with it.
No recognition problem with REAPER. I get a latency of 3.3 ms min input and output of 4.3m. But here, I get very sporadic and rare, some crack. So I re-grew a little buffer size. The latency is 10ms interior and I have more crunch.
I have not had time to lay large projects .... we'll see in a later post.

GETTING STARTED

The installation happened without worries. The version on the CD is not the latest version, go for a walk on the site to get the latest driver. Once installed, it restarts the pc and then you plug the sound card. She recognized immediately. There's more than!
The manual is almost useless for one who has little experience.

OVERALL OPINION

I bought it at Musikia Wednesday, received yesterday directly to my job in chronopost. I have not tried other models. I trusted the reputation of Focusrite and above all I found no other models that fit my needs (except perhaps Etrelles lexicon alpha studio). All other cards in this price range are either incomplete in terms of connectivity, or with a lower resolution ...
What I like:
- The 24bit/96kHz
- The complete connection
- The robustness of the housing
- The design truly mobile
- The Bund plug in Scarlett (reverb and EQ above)
- The sound!! yeah anyway, I have not yet spoken. My first test was to plug my AKG K 240 Studio to listen to songs I know well and ... take me a slap! PHEW! is clear, precise and powerful. Long hours of fun in perspective.
- The preamps .... then there is really a great surprise. In fouilant, we learn at the site of the Focusrite preamps in Scarlet is the same architecture as the preamps of the Saffire Pro 56. Start by plugging directly into my boiboite with GuitarRig, I was rather amazed. This is the first time I think Guitar Rig amp sounds like a skyscraper. The point that I ask myself to upgrade from Version to the full version .... I have not tested with the acoustic guitar when using the 48V phantom power supply, but given the result with the Live electrical scratches, no doubt it will ring.

The quality / price ratio is simply EXCELLENT if not mind-blowing!

Is what I would do this choice? Oh YES!!