Apogee One vs. Motu Microbook II vs. ???

[Convectuoso]

Look at the sheer size of the Microbook and ask yourself...

Can you physically fit nice clear converters, a juicy headphone amp, a good enough preamp for an SM7b and a good enough DI not to suck...?

Also ask yourself, if the Duet was the shit, what's stopping you from still using that?

From my own personal experience I can say that MOTU's build quality is pretty bad. And their customer service is about as bad as it gets.

If you're in the US or Canada I'd get a refurb'd Duet:

https://store.apogeedigital.com/clas...e-hardware.php

Good luck

[ohmicide]

needs to be small and portable, and the ONE is even tinier than the MOTU but sounded great so size can be deceiving

only problem I have with getting a ONE again is the shitty quality of the plastic casing and the cables, mine almost completely fell apart, one of the lights stopped working, the cables kept breaking, but if my only good alternative...

[ohmicide]

anyone else?

[ohmicide]

bumping topic

I no longer need an amp powerful enough to drive AKG K702s nor preamps powerful enough to drive an SM7b

I'm still interested in the MicroBook II or similar

all I need is good converters with a decent amp and decent enough preamps for DI guitar every once in a blue moon and maybe vocals through an SM58

it also needs to be compatible with Windows so the new Apogee ONE is out

budget is less than $300

[diossyakos]

MOTU's are fine. I use my Microbook I every day on locations and gigs (and my 828mkII and HD192's at the studio as well) really don't get the bashing here..

offtopic P.S.: I'm least satisfied with the HD's, which refrains other gearslutz' opinion AND the null test results..

I'll A/B them D/Awise against our Ensemble next week having them hopefully at the same place..

[zohomoho]

if you spend any time here, you'll soon learn that opinions are like assholes. a bunch of jobless assclowns whose mouth's are bigger than their bite. Their is no mid level interface out right now that can't give you a professional result.

[ohmicide]

I know the quality of most the mid prices units will be great, what I'm worried about is mostly drivers, low latency performance and build quality

[syntheticrhyme]

Originally Posted by ohmicide

I know the quality of most the mid prices units will be great, what I'm worried about is mostly drivers, low latency performance and build quality

I bought a microbook I guess about 2 years ago when I was on a pc (simply would not work, terrible crackling, the drivers were a a big issue. I returned it a couple of days later (I'm sure by now they've worked these issues out

[ohmicide]

my biggest bief with the MicroBook is that it's got 4 inputs and 6 outputs.. I need one inputs and 2 outputs max