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(More customer reviews)I purchased this Phonic Firefly 808 Universal unit the other day (2/6/2011) and since receiving it have had nothing but problems. It's definitely a 'Plug and Pray' device. I have tried over and over and over and over and over (you get the idea) to have it install the Firewire driver to no avail. I tried downloading the latest driver and still nothing. I tried hooking it up to USB and again no luck. I have been trying to connect to their service department for an entire day and the line is continuously busy. I have sent 4 emails to their tech support email address and have not received anything. My advice to anyone contemplating purchasing anything from these Bozo's is to steer clear and pay the money for a 'real' quality made Firewire interface. Recording time shouldn't be spent on trying to troubleshoot a product that is supposed to work. We want to record our songs, not be techno-geeks.
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FireWire (IEEE 1394) and USB 2.0 audio interface 24-bit resolution, up to 192 kHz sampling rate 18 simultaneous inputs and outputs FireWire/USB audio interface 8 microphone preamps with trim control and individual phantom power switches 8 analog line inputs including 2 instrument inputs 8 channels of optical ADAT I/O (4 ch. via 96k dual SMUX) S/PDIF I/O, AES/EBU I/O, MIDI I/O and word clock I/O Headphone output and Main output with volume control for monitoring purpose Channel meters on channel 1 to 8 for input or output Synchronization, sampling rate, digital I/O and MIDI in/out indicators Dual FireWire ports for daisy chaining and direct connection to Mac or PC Stand-alone mixer functionality for field and studio use without computer Instrument input, pad switch, balanced 1/4" TRS send jacks on Inputs 1 and 2 Compatible with Mac OSX and Windows XP, Vista & 7Steinberg's Cubase LE digital audio workstation software included The new Phonic Firefly 808 Universal rack-mountable preamplifier with USB and FireWire interface is an easy-to-use, high-quality recording interface for songwriters to record guitars, keyboards, vocals and more to the computer. Featured are 8 analog (XLR and 1/4") inputs and 8 analog (1/4") outputs, as well as S/PDIF, AES/EBU, MIDI and ADAT inputs and outputs – all of which are streamed to and from the computer in real time through the FireWire or USB connection in superb 24-bit/192kHz audio. Compatible with the most popular of Digital Audio Workstation software, this powerful unit provides recording musicians and engineers alike with the kind of sophisticated yet easy-to-use recording device they require.
