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AlexK · 11th March 2010

This should really be in the Location Recording forum, hopefully a moderator will move it for you.

An Apogee Ensemble will do the trick, although I'm personally not a great fan. The RME Fireface IMO has better converters, gives you more inputs and outputs, and has TotalMix (which is absolutely indispensable). The RME is also ridiculously stable and reliable beyond belief, whilst I really wouldn't put my money on the Apogee in terms fo stability.

The only downside of the RME under the Apogee is that the RME's preamps really are very boring. The RME has one up on the Apogee on everything else IMO.

The RME + a good preamp/8-ch preamp is a clear winner over the Ensemble in my books, which is why I went for a FF800 (and some preamps soon) instead of the Ensemble.

11th March 2010	#2
AlexK Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2009 Location: Cardiff & Bath, UK Posts: 1,340	This should really be in the Location Recording forum, hopefully a moderator will move it for you. An Apogee Ensemble will do the trick, although I'm personally not a great fan. The RME Fireface IMO has better converters, gives you more inputs and outputs, and has TotalMix (which is absolutely indispensable). The RME is also ridiculously stable and reliable beyond belief, whilst I really wouldn't put my money on the Apogee in terms fo stability. The only downside of the RME under the Apogee is that the RME's preamps really are very boring. The RME has one up on the Apogee on everything else IMO. The RME + a good preamp/8-ch preamp is a clear winner over the Ensemble in my books, which is why I went for a FF800 (and some preamps soon) instead of the Ensemble.