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2.0 out of 5 stars
Ok Recording Interface, But Not The Best, February 7, 2006
This review is from: phonic helix board 17
This and the other Phonic Helix boards look very appealing. Numerous outputs, efftect, mixer with built in firewire interface. It looks good and promising at first glance, but as anything else that is first produced there are problems. First The syncronizing software wasn't the easiest to install. Once I got it installed and got the mixer connected through the firewire interface, it seem to loose it's connection randomly, and most of the time it seemed to happen right in the middle of a recording. My biggest problem was the number of knobs and switches with a very generic owners manual. After I finally got it connected to my PC, it took forvere to get everything routed to where it should go. Then it literally took me another 30 minutes to get the headphones where the sound would come out. I just had a totally bad experience with this interface. Another thing was that it was very noisey. For an unpowered mixer it made an aweful lot of noise. I never could get the faders to work.
I will say this if you don't have the money to buy a firepod, and you have a bunch of time for trial and error, this is the device for you. I will say that the recording quality of this device was above average, it just took to much nonsense to get there.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Best bang for the buck, January 21, 2011
This review is from: phonic helix board 17
I bought this unit quite awhile ago and no longer use it because I am now working with Pro Tools and use a 003 Rack + factory (almost $2,000 DAW piece). Before that though I worked with this mixer and tracked through it with Logic. For tracking, and considering the price of this unit it can't be beat. The processing built in is impressive and I find it to be better than the crappy plug-ins that come with the base models of whatever DAW you're using. I assume most people would be using this for tracking and not mixing something already tracked through another interface; which is the only reason I gave this a 4 and not a 5, it seems this unit doesn't have HUI so if you plan on hooking it up as a MIDI control to mix already recorded tracks you would be better going with a Mackie. Otherwise, Great unit for the price.
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