Every Clarett+ ships with the Focusrite Classic Red 2 and Red 3 plug-in suite, which accurately models Focusrite's classic Red range EQ and compression hardware, and the Brainworx bx_console Focusrite SC, which faithfully captures the sound, feel, and style of the original Focusrite ISA 110 Equaliser and ISA 130 Dynamics Modules. They're joined by two JFET instrument inputs which manage to maintain the authentic tone of your guitar.

gain of this unit is given as +57dB but good luck if you want to use anything approaching that, as it will be in the very last travel of the pot. The performers were hair-raising and this unit caught that, even with a weak signal it didn't lose the subtlety and fine detail of the space. Sticking with tried-and-tested USB-2 for maximum compatibility, the new 8Pre comes boxed with not one, but two different USB cables.The “Talk” button now greys out at high sample rates and displays a tool-tip to indicate talkback is disabled. Instead, they’ve turbo–charged the audio specifications of the new units, achieving a near 10dB improvement in dynamic range both on the input and output side compared with the Saffire interfaces. Helpfully, two headphone pre-amps are included, each of which can have a different foldback mix; however, they are hard-linked only to output pairs 7-8 and 9-10 respectively.

Everyone’s preferences will vary, no doubt, but to me, it would enhance the flexibility of the Clarett interfaces if the Dim control were replaced with an assignable button that could be made to perform monitor switching, put the outputs into mono, engage talkback and so on. THen tonight I recorded a piano with a condenser pair at maybe 2 meters, and I had to put the gains very high, maybe 95% on a friend's Clarett+ 8Pre. There is “enough” gain to use, however you have to turn it almost all the way up, and the very last 10% of the potentiometer is VERY sensitive and makes it really difficult to gain match a pair of mics.Hitmaker Expansion features exclusive content from legendary Auto-Tune® creators Antares®, along with Native Instruments®, Brainworx®, Softube®, Landr, XLN Audio®, Relab and more.