FocusriteISA One Classic Microphone Preamplifier with Independent DI, Blue

I have a basic home studio setup, which used to consist of an AT 4047 condenser mic run through a tube amp and into a Scarlett 2i2 soundcard. Now it's exactly the same, but I've replaced the tube amp with the Focusrite ISA.My vocals have so much more clarity now. My tube amp added some interesting colour, but maybe a bit too much colour if you know what I mean. The Focusrite has a very transparent sound, which I really prefer. I can add colour and saturation in my DAW if I want to. It's also very solidly built and easy to carry around if you need to. Thumbs up!

Muy buen preamplificador

Clean sounding and does exactly what is says it does.

音最高。初心者から本格派まで満足いくと思う。プロの意見を聞いてみたい

I wasn't sure about this preamp initially. I give it a 5/5 for what it is, not to imply that it is one of the best out there.Pros (for me)- Good sound- Good headroom- Low distortion- Low noise- DI is good for bass and electric guitar- Balanced in/out- Useful VU meter- Useful send/return- Headphone monitoring- Notched Gain + Linear trimCons (for me)- Big and ugly- The space is spent on all-in-one kind of stuff. If you just want the preamp, get the 2 channel 1U rack.- I wish they made this unit in a full 1U rack unit with all the same inputs/outputs- No TRS output. XLR output onlyI use it for vocals, acoustic guitar, and electric bass. It handles everything very well. No complaints on pre-amp performance.This design may be useful to put in a sound booth if the performer wants to monitor themselves and the cue mix from the engineer. In a big studio they're likely to have all that hardware in the monitoring room, but for smaller studios and home studios, this could be a useful tool. For the monitoring room it's a big box that gets in the way. I'd much rather have a 1 or 2 channel full 1U rack version of this, but I do appreciate it as a standalone box for practicing DI instruments or testing mics.This is a step up from my other cheaper preamps. If you are on the SM7 bandwagon, then yes, it is powerful and clean enough for that mic. But don't think that "clean" means there is no amp his at all. At 50db Gain I measure an average (across the freq spectrum) noise level of -100dB RMS in my DAW. This is quite good.Make sure you use balanced inputs. You'll need a female XLR to male TRS to put the output of the preamp into the line input of your A/D converter. You can go straight XLR to your mic input, but you may get different sounds and distortion levels. Use line input if you can and make sure to adjust the gain on your input device to unity gain (different for every device and every pot).