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PreSonus FireBox 6X8 Firewire Recording Interface

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24-bit recording up to 96K sample rate
2 Class-A mic/instrument preamps
S/PDIF and MIDI I/O
Completely portable professional recording solution

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Product Description

Presonus Studio One Artist Audio Software

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The FireBox is the most powerful 24-bit/96k FireWire recording interface that fits in the palm of your hand. The FireBox is a complete 24-Bit/96k personal recording studio combining two high quality PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers and 24-Bit/96k sample rate. The FireBox is bundled with PreSonus Studio One Artist, our groundbreaking music creation program, and over 4 GB of virtual instruments, plug-ins, loops, and samples to get you started making music immediately.

The most powerful 24-bit/96k FireWire recording interface that fits in the palm of your hand. Click to enlarge.

View rear panel connections. Click to enlarge.

Features a Zero-Latency DSP mixer. Click to enlarge.

Hardware
The FireBox has the highest record/playback track count of its size with the ability to record six inputs and playback through ten outputs simultaneously all at pro-quality 24-bit/96kHz. Two ultra-low noise high-headroom microphone/instrument preamplifiers with 48V phantom power are on the front panel for quickly and easily connecting your favorite microphones and instruments. The FireBox also includes a high quality stereo headphone output with volume adjustment on the front panel. The headphone output has its own two-channel driver stream which can be used as a separate stereo bus or two-channel output giving you the ability to send a "cue" mix to the headphone output and a main mix to the main output. Two additional balanced TRS line inputs are located on the rear of the FireBox along with six balanced TRS line outputs. Two channels of S/PDIF input/output and MIDI input/output are also included via DB9 breakout cable. A software router/mixer is also included for further flexibility and power. The 1/3U-wide metal chassis of the FireBox is designed to fit the MAXRACK rack-mounting system from PreSonus and can be racked with the TubePRE, COMP16, EQ3B and HP4 for a neat and compact computer recording system.

The FireBox works with both four and six-pin FireWire (IEEE 1394) connectors and can be powered by either 6-pin FireWire bus power, or powered by an external power transformer.

DSP Mixer Included
The FireBox features a Zero-Latency DSP mixer that allows you to mix all six live inputs with a software output stream, then route that mix to any one of its outputs, as well as assign either that mix or a software output stream to its headphone amplifier. This feature eliminates monitoring through the computer and makes it easy to customize a mix for the artist. It also allows CUEING for DJ’s and live performance where the headphone output can monitor a completely different signal than the MAIN outputs.

FireBox Features

High-Speed FireWire Network Audio Interface
Plug and play FireWire (IEEE 1394) audio interface
24-Bit / 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96K sample rate
Record/playback 6 inputs/10 outputs at 24-bit/96K
2 PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers
2 analog line inputs, 6 analog line outputs
S/PDIF input/output
MIDI input/output
Low latency monitoring
Headphone output
Powered via FireWire bus or externally
Software router/mixer
Windows and Macintosh compatible
Fits MAXRACK rack mounting system
FREE PreSonus Studio One Artist recording and production software

What's in the Box
PreSonus FireBox, AC Adapter, FireWire Cable, Software/Driver CDs, User's Manual

Product information

Item Weight

3.7 pounds

Product Dimensions

12.5 x 8 x 4.5 inches

Shipping Weight

3.7 pounds

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ASIN

B0006VYH1Q

Item model number

FIREBOX

Customer Reviews

53 customer reviews

3.6 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#80,909 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
#342 in Musical Instruments > Recording Equipment > Computer Recording > Audio Interfaces

Date first available at Amazon.com

October 2, 2001

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johnnyb588

No better value for the money

April 29, 2009

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Here's the deal with this product: If you're buying a PreSonus Firebox 6x10, you are NOT buying it for a professional recording studio. You can't expect that out of a $200 product. However, what you can expect out of a $200 recording device is exactly what you get from this little beauty.

Sound:
The sound quality is fantastic. It is possible to generate a little bit of popping if the system is really overloaded, but I have found that recording to an external HDD helps with this. There is a tiny bit of background noise in recording, but it is infinitesimally small compared to what you might get with other interfaces under $200 or recording straight to the computer's sound card, or even worse, through an on-board mic. The Firebox really opens up some options to create some good, clean sounds whether you want to record vocals or instruments, and whether you want to record acoustic, through a digital medium, or through an amp. Also, any complaints about volume are either unwarranted or the reviewers simply haven't found the right settings to record at. I have absolutely no problems getting my mics to max out in garageband.

Quality:
The product is sturdy. It is built well to be tough. You could travel with this thing (and I do), and it will hold up due to the sturdy construction. Nothing about this thing feels cheap. It's pretty small, too, so you won't feel like you're hauling around a huge clunker just to get some recording done on the go.

Bottom line:
I don't think you can find anything better for this price range. It's a very good product. You won't have professional artists clamoring to get you to record their productions, but this will do for any small-time band or any person just interested in doing some home recording just for fun and wanting it to sound slightly professionally done.

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E. Burnette

Good hardware for the money/bundled Cubase incompatable with new versions of Windows/Roll Back 1394 Firewire Driver in Win7

November 23, 2009

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Pros: I think the quality of this box is excellent. Performs really well in everything I've tried it in. The pre-amps are decent if slightly underpowered but it makes up for this by having 24 bit recording so levels can be adjusted later. I wanted something to do pro-quality demos of songs that I write without having latency issues. I got it for a good price. ASIO drivers are really good.

Cons: The biggest thing that I've encountered is the bundled software, I haven't been able to install Cubase on Windows Vista because of the ridiculous DRMs that Steinberg has. This is really aggravating and I spent two days before giving up and deciding to just install XP on another partition.
The pre-amps are good but not fantastic, I don't really know enough to go into any technical detail. All I know is that the quality of your singing voice is much more important than the quality of any of your equipment.
From time to time the headphone pre-amp on the box goes really gritty and I have to unplug it from the Firewire power for it to get better. I think this has to do with the quality of my Firewire card (cheap) and it's ability to deliver clean power. It hasn't happened again since the first couple of days I used it.
It asked me to update the firmware. Not fun but simple enough.

2/28/2011 Update: Read this if you're on Windows 7
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I upgraded to Windows7 64-bit. When using any DAW* in Windows7, the ASIO settings (mainly bit-rate/frequency) are not changeable from the DAW, only from the Firebox Control Panel. Still, in the DAW it would just say that it was recording 44.1 KHz. This problem has to do with the way that the new windows firewire driver works in windows 7. You have to downgrade (or roll back) the firewire 1394 driver from the device manager to the one that was in windows XP (refered to as the legacy driver). When I rolled back the driver, it also had the nice side effect of making the IO better labeled in windows. It was disappointing that the Presonus website didn't have this on the main page for the product.

I also discovered that updating my BIOS on my Gigabyte MA-770T-UD3P* caused the built in firewire to disconnect and reconnect the firebox about once every 3-5 minutes. Needless to say, I'm back on the F2b BIOS. Also, I should mention that this motherboard provides much smoother power than my old motherboard/firewire card did and I have not had the headphone preamp problems since I switched. If you are having this problem, I recommend that you try using the external power adapter.

*Ableton Live and Mixcraft tested
*96 KHz, 48 KHz, 88.2 KHz, or 44.1 KHz
*BIOS v. F8?

I think these compatibility issues are what made this box such a good deal on hardware (and the fact that there weren't any Vista drivers at the time that I bought it).

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Mike

Nice box.... CubeLE is worthless

September 6, 2009

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I didn't think I would ever say this about any product from Steinberger, but CubeLE is terrible. I have used many different audio editing packages from Sony (both pro and acid), Cool Edit (that turned into Adobe Audition),Garage Band, and CubeLE is the worst. It has some neat features, but the simple stuff like setting an in-point, are just too complicated. And the manual and help files seem to be written for a musician turned recording engineer, and the lingo seems to be more computer lingo than audio lingo. The software for controlling levels that is from Presonus, is great, and the firebox turns into a great mixer, but CubeLE. junk.....

One other problem is that the Firewire connection has to be 6 pin to power the firebox without a wall wart. I wanted to use the firebox to record nature sounds with a great shotgun mic. My computer only has a 4 pin firewire, so I have to use the wall wart to power the firebox. I decided to use a UPS, and plug the wall wart into the UPS. This way I can go remote. The Firebox works as advertised other than the power issues.

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