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I am firing up a studio in my home and adding this to what I already own has cut my production time down several notches. Imagine what you can do with more inputs. In a couple of weeks I am buying more units and a mixer. I would recommend this unit to anyone looking to increase their production in the studio or even in a church environment. Fun and very easy to hook up and to use. It's a great product and bearing the Presonus name you know you can't go wrong. Awesome in every way!!!!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I have an older iMac, mid-2010 with 16 GB of RAM, and run PreSonus Studio One 3 Professional recording software on it. The iMac has a Firewire connection and that is why this particular DI design was of interest to me. I connected/chained this unit to 2 other identical units that I bought new. It works as expected. For the price these digital interface units are a great choice when you are seeking a multi-input/output device. This allows me to leave various studio devices connected all the time rather than plugging/unplugging those devices as I need them. Using a PreSonus DI with the PreSonus Studio One 3 Professional software works great. No compatibility issues at all. None! Thus the whole set up was easy to manage and problem free.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Can't say enough about this interface. The ability to have 8 xlr mic inputs recording at once with as many outs as anyone could want plus the ability to daisy chain it with another firestudio project for the ability to record 16 simultaneous tracks with xlr mic inputs. Has phantom power, 24 bit - 96 khz recording, a great software package, mounts in a rack, seperate phone and volume control right on the front. I LOVE my unit, has transformed my home studio and I will buy another one once I start expanding my studio into a business. Funtions perfectly, great drivers, followed installation instructions and it has worked flawlessly with my windows vista 64 since day one...NO HEADACHES!!!!! I was looking at getting a 2 xlr input interface for about $250 new and got this for $300 on ebay and must say the $50 was well worth the flexability this unit offers. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, if stolen would buy another, just extremely satisfied on all levels with the purchase.Read full review
I bought the Firestudio to replace a mixer with Firewire interface from Phonic that had died. The Phonic mixer had already been replaced once right after I bought it, and after a few years the Firewire quit working. It had always worked unreliably from the get go in that in didn't always connect, and Phonic simply service does not exist. When it quits, it's no longer of any value. Anyway, got a great deal on this Presonus Firestudio Project and was hopeful that it would work with my GarageBand software running under Snow Leopard, and I have to tell ya, it works great, and it sounds great too!. I didn't use the "front end" processing provided by the Phonic mixer, preferring to record tracks dry, without tweaking of anything, and that's just what this does. I especially like the form factor, the record level indicators for each input, the headphone output, and all of the I/O on the rear panel. And it cost about 1/3 to 1/4th that of the Phonic. No, I don't work for Presonus and I also don't normally write reviews, unless it's just quickly marking check boxes.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
After much debate, the church I work for has decided to upgrade our recording capabilities and we have purchased the Presonus FireStudio Project as a direct replacement for our Lexicon Omega 4 channel USB 2.0 recorder. Why Firewire over USB? Simply put: consistency. Although USB 2.0 claims to have a higher transfer rate, and although it may be true, it’s only at a burst rate. Over all consistency shows firewire to have excellent data transfer rates, and yes, although its “ONLY” firewire 400, there isn’t a whole lot on the market for firewire 800, and the makers of firewire are already looking to best the transfer rates of firewire 800 to compete with UBS 3.0’s upcoming release. With all this said, the overhead on processing is MUCH lower. My little rinky-dink Dell Optiplex GX280 3.0GHz running XP Pro, 3GB RAM, 32bit OS is actually processing less, while recording twice the tracks. You do the math there. We use Sony Acid Pro 7.0d (or ‘e’, I forget what’s the newest) for our multitracking. Clean clean clean, is all I have to say. EXCELLENT preamps with tons of headroom. Currently our audio path is 32 incoming channels to an analogue mixer- from the 8 subgroup outs, we are recording the tracks on individual mono inputs. Now this isn’t really the best setup, and we’re totally trying to future-proof ourselves, which is why we chose the FireStudio series over the FP10. The Studio series is newer and when we add the 2 more as daisy chained units, the visual cues from the LED readouts makes setting up 24 track of recording much faster than having to watch the computer PreSonus interface. Sony’s product recognized the unit with no issues, as the installation files I downloaded from Presonus’ website recognized the unit, and also asked me to perform the newest firmware update, which again it performed flawlessly and rather quickly. In MINUTES we were ready to record 8 tracks of music. The detented pots have a solid feel, and LEDs respond quickly. Signal passes as I said with a lot of headroom, and signal reacts as it should, with 0VU test tones and pink noise responding identically through the board as it is picked up through the interface. We are recording at identical output specs (I never saw a reason to up size recording just to punch it back down) as CD capable: 44.1k at 16bit stereo. Would I recommend it to you? Heck yes. From eBay? I dunno. We purchased ours from Musicians Friend as it was offered with a full manufacturer’s warranty a return policy and free shipping. The one we looked at though, was an “open box” item and had guaranteed satisfaction. Always the bargain hunter… :-)Read full review
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