M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface
The FireWire Solo is the perfect recording solution for singer/songwriters. A guitar and microphone combined with powered speakers and a laptop computer should be all that this type of user needs to compose and record their own music. A good-looking, straight forward user interface at a very user-friendly price - The FireWire Solo is sure to become an industry standard!Microphone XLR Input with red peak LED indicator and level control.Class Compliant when Apple fixes a problem they are having with firewirePhantom power switch and indicatorFront/Rear Inputs? switch to select which set of inputs is currently active: Mic/Guitar, or Stereo Line Ins.Guitar (Instrument) 1/4? unbalanced Input with red peak indicator LED and level control.One level control for both stereo outputs and headphone output.Blue power LEDKensington Lock port1394 Bus-Powered with power jack for optional power adapter (for use with 4-pin 1394 cables)Two 1394 portsS/PDIF coaxial I/OTwo TRS 1/4? balanced/unbalanced Line Outputs.Two 1/4? unbalanced stereo Line Inputs. 44.1; 48; 88.2; 96 kHzMax Input: +2.2 dBV (1.3 Vrms)Signal to Noise Ratio: -102 dB @ 48kHz (a-weighted)Dynamic Range: 102 dB @ 48kHz (a-weighted)THD + N: 0.0061% (-84 dB), 1kHz, -1dBFS @ 48kHzFrequency Response: +/-0.2dB, 20Hz to 20kHz @ 48kHz; +/-0.3 dB, 20Hz to 40kHz @ 96kHzCrosstalk: -116 dB, 1kHz, channel-to-channelImpedance : 14k OhmsAvailable Gain: 40 dBInput Rang...
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M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface Reviews
i get this product.and let me tell you.its very good, excellent, portable, and easy to use.i recommend this product to any one who likes to record at home. 5 stars.
Im using this on a Intel Mac and it is the best ive seen. i did not need to install anything. Buy it and enjoy. I should have bought it 2 years ago.
:)) I own a LOT of their equipment and it holds up really well.
The price is very fair considering what other choices are out there. Its basically plug and play if you know what you are doing.
Does exactly what it says it will do and the firewire connection means zero latency. I put this off forever, and now Im so glad i got this.
Amazingly simple and well put together product. Their gear is tough and made to perform.
I really like M-Audio as a company.
A lot of features and flexibility packed into a small and inexpensive package. I installed it on a WinXP(SP2) machine which had Adobe Audition on it, and the M-Audio drivers and software were fully integrated into Audition automatically. Took me a whole extra 10 minutes of reading the included PDF-format manual :). Very slick. I'm very impressed. Made some nice home-studio recordings within an hour of opening the box. The only startup difficulty was in realizing that there were way more options than I expected for to routing inputs to outputs, so picking the right combination of software settings to simply make a recording from one mono mic seemed a bit more complicated that it needs to be.
I researched this item extensively prior to purchase and nowhere does it tell you that it has trouble with Intel Macs. I wish I still had my G5 so I could try this thing out and confirm that it really is an Intel issue, but I don't. All of the lights are on on the device but it is not hooking up right to my computer somehow. Unfortunately, I have an Intel Mac. I couldn't even open the M-Audio control panel on my computer. I knew this thing was too good to be true when I saw the price, and I should have gone with my gut. Bottom line, this is an outdated item (it is a few years old and has not been updated) and it has outdated software support.
The only driver on the M-Audio site is from early 2006 and does not support Tiger 10.4.11 which is what I am running. I then went and installed the most recent Intel driver from the M-Audio site and it got a me a little further; I could now open the control panel so that it could tell me that the device isn't plugged in. Me thinks this is an Intel issue. I installed the CD-ROM that came in the box, but the unit would not show as being hooked up to my Mac and I could not use any of my Pro Audio programs with it. I'm not sure if just the latter is the only problem or if the two issues work in concert with each other. Of course now when I go to research this issue I find all the Intel problem reports that I didn't see somehow before I bought this item. I am returning this to Amazon and now I will have to start looking for a mobile audio solution again.
I just have my 2.2GHz Santa Rosa MacBook Pro.
(For the record, I have OS X 10.4.11). Each day I have to reboot my machine because the audio outputs either stop working or start to pick up a lot of noise/static. Searching around the internet seems to indicate M-Audio drivers for OS X are not to be held in high regard. If you havea Mac, I would think twice about buying M-Audio audio interfaces.
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