MOTU 4pre USB / FireWire Audio Interface

Portability, flexibility, and convenient simplicity - MOTU's 4pre hybrid recording interface gives you all of this and more. Whether you have a FireWire-equipped Mac laptop or a PC tower with USB ports, recording with your MOTU 4pre couldn't be easier. Like the name suggests, the 4pre sports four studio-quality microphone preamplifiers. What's more, each input features a combo jack, giving you inputs for your mics, instruments, and line-level sources. And housed in a handy all-metal half-rack chassis, the MOTU 4pre is ready to go where the music takes you.

FEATURES

• A great audio interface for desktop and laptop recording rigs
• Compact and rugged all-metal chassis fits easily in a backpack, but comes with the hardware you need to rackmount it
• 4 x ultra-clean and highly transparent microphone preamplifiers let you record without coloring your sound
• All analog inputs are on combo jacks, providing you with the connectivity you need to record 2 x balanced line-level sources as well as 2 x hi-Z instrument sources
• 2 x channels of S/PDIF I/O
• 2 x independent headphone outputs make collaboration easy
• Independent hands-on mixer lets you use the 4pre even without your computer
• Connects via USB 2.0 or FireWire 400
• CueMix software lets you control four mixes and 8 buses with simple tabbed interface (includes tuner, oscilloscope, real-time FFT, spectrogram waterfall, X-Y phase analysis, and other tools)
• Functions as a stand-alone 4-channel mixer, even without a computer

SPECIFICATIONS

• Computer Connectivity:FireWire/USB 2.0
• Form Factor:Desktop/Rackmount
• Simultaneous I/O:6 x 6
• Number of Preamps:4
• Phantom Power:Yes
• A/D Resolution:24-bit/96kHz
• Effects:Yes (DSP Mixer)
• Analog Inputs:4 x XLR Combo
• Analog Outputs:4 x TRS
• Digital Inputs:1 x S/PDIF
• Digital Outputs:1 x S/PDIF
• Rack Spaces:Half
• Bus Powered:Yes (FireWire)
• Height:1.75"
• Width:8.5"
• Depth:7"