| you could go with a pre from seventh circle audio thumbsup
I had a firebox and got rid of it for same reason, not enough true gain. I had to have it maxed out (without the +12 because its pointless to use, if I want to digitaly amplify I can do that in post...) and it seemed to barely record it around the -3db I wanted. I just got a MOTU 896 off ebay, hopefully the built in pres are better, I know the conversion is... |