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Focusrite

Postby Tweak on Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:12 am

http://www.focusrite.com

Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56

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Focusrite combines their popular Liquid technology with their also popular Saffifre interfaces. The result is Liquid Saffire 56 with third generation Focusrite Liquid Pre-amps, providing ten different pre-amp emulations. These include emulations based on the Neve 1073, the Pultec MB-1, Telefunken V72 and seven more. A harmonics dial on each Liquid pre-amp lets you account for variance in vintage originals of the same model, or use levels of 2nd, 3rd and 5th Harmonic distortion creatively to shape your sound. Ten analog (analogue) outputs, 16 channels of ADAT i/o, stereo SPDIF i/o, MIDI i/o and word-clock i/o is provided on BNC connectors, allowing Liquid Saffire 56 to act as either a master or slave. Independent phantom power and high pass filter on every channel, switchable from the front panel, with the two instrument channels also featuring -9dB pads for additional headroom. Saffire Mix Control, the zero-latency 18 x 16 DSP Mixer/Router software features output routing and monitoring. It also provides one-click set-up, large on-screen metering for inputs, outputs and submixes and control over the choice of liquid emulation
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Re: Focusrite

Postby lorica on Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:24 am

Tweak, I really hope some people chime in on this because I am in the market for an interface and I'm tempted to dive in the cold water and buy this thing. Wouldn't it be great if the liquid technology works and sounds legitimate? It could be very useful and wouldn't it be fun to fool our engineer friends? :) Time will tell. My gut tells me to buy an RME ff800 for it's solidity across the board(drivers, construction, quality,) but I'd love to save some cash and have some awesome preamp modeling to work with, not to mention the other focusrite pre's on there must be a solid "good," nice and clean. I haven't heard this but if you or anyone else has please contribute!! Thanks!

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