Product: Alesis IO|14
Price Paid: USD 150
Submitted
12/22/2007
at
01:12am
by
JD
Email: jackintosound at hotmail<dot>com
General
:
9
This is a really good alesis recording interface, it is small so you can carry it easy wherever you're going, this is a recording interface though, its not a mixer, kinda looks like a mixer but it doesn't have any faders, the channel volumes and panning are controlled by the software, everything else is right there physical. Its got LED's to monitor the input signal and also to see at what quality you are recording, very nice metal casing, so it can take a couple of hits if you're traveling a lot and everything.
Connectivity
:
9
Firewire/IEEE-1394 and its got another firewire input
I/O
:
8
Outside the box it says high definition mic preamps and they really are, they are VERY NICE and clean!, you don't have to turn them all the way up to get a nice balanced signal, i had an m-audio firewire solo and the pres were not as good as these ones, has 2 instrument inputs, 4 analog inputs and you can hook it up to a ADAT device to get another 4 inputs, S/PDIF I/O, 1 MIDI I/O, 4 inserts to put effects on individual channels, a mix blend knob to mix the interface signal with the computer signal, 2 headphone outs with independent volume control and phantom power switch in pairs 1-2 & 3-4
Power
:
10
Firewire bus powered or AC adapter, 2 phantom power switches, not sure if they are true +48v but i guess they are.
Technical specs
:
9
Super nice wide selection of sample rates, you can choose from 44.1k to 192k. For mac and PC, download the latest drivers from the page.
Other
:
8
Comes with Cubase LE, a monitoring software, not a stand-alone device.
Overall
:
8
So far so good, i recorded some drums today for about 3 hours using 2 condenser mics, a sm57 for the snare and a beta shure kick drum mic and fuck! sounds amazing. This little interface is really nice, even if it cost me 300 i would buy it, its a good-quality-very portable-low costing-device so if you have 150 bucks go get one on ebay. Yes i would buy it again if it were stolen but i hope that doesn't happen, i wish it had 2 more headphone outs.
