Отзывы о Выпрямитель Scarlett SC-HS60655

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Summary:
The 2i2 3rd Gen is a solid advancement to the product line. Generation III helps this brand to remain at the forefront of audio interfaces. I had sold a previous interface and found myself in a pinch where I needed to get something recorded and produced within 48 hours. I found myself with a 2i2 3rd Gen and it was perfect.

Good things you should know:
Contrary to other reviews, you DO NOT need any external drivers. It truly does remain plug-and-play, as they say. External drivers are solely optional, as your specific setup might warrant them. Here was my scenario; plug in USB to laptop, open DAW, set input to 2i2, record. Latency - what latency? That's a thing of the past.

Bad things you should know (that do not reduce the rating whatsoever):
The bundled software (ProTools First, Ableton Live Lite) is a train wreck and will require much more than the 20 minutes they estimate to set yourself up. It requires creating multiple accounts on platforms for downloads and digital licensing (if you're not already set up). The included software largely remains a means to make the product more marketable. Your BEST options remain to buy a monthly subscription to ProTools ($$), buy Reaper ($), or use Audacity (for free).

We use these for a community radio station, and has used the 1st and 2nd gen 2i2s for years without problems. They fail after 2-3 years of 24x7 use, but that seems reasonable.

However, the 3rd gen switches to a USB C connector with lightning, which requires a separate driver. In order to deliver this driver, the interface shows as a USB drive with the installation media. This causes the system not to boot if the device is plugged in. Focusrite also tries to get you to register the device and drivers with their web sites before the USB connection can be made.

The new driver is also dropping connection after extended periods. Look for gen 1 or 2 of this device if you aren't using it for short periods, and unplugging it after you are done.

I play guitar in my spare time and don't know the first thing about getting set up with a DAW or the logistics of recording my music or even getting it to play through my headphones. Other approaches I've seen have been extremely confusing, intimidating, and finicky to someone like me who knows nothing about the correct gear for this stuff.
Not only does this seem to be working perfectly, but the series of tutorials Focusrite has created made it extremely simple for me to get set up, plugged in, and jamming in no time.

I can't speak to this product as a professional musician, but if you're a dummy like me you've certainly come to the right place!

The Focusrite Scarlett Solo is, quite simply, the ideal USB interface for recording the human voice or a single instrument. You could purchase a 2i2, but if you only need one input, why pay more? The solo is easy to use, has an excellent latency free headphone jack, and lets you get high quality audio from professional-grade microphones, either condenser or dynamic, into your computer. The build quality is excellent. You will need a preamp such a Cloudlifter with dynamic mics due to their lower output, but that's a function of the mic, not the interface. I use the Rode NT condenser mic or either the Rode Procaster or Electrovoice RE320 dynamic for recording voiceovers. The results are vasttly superior to any USB mic I've tried. Highly recommended if you're serious about audio.

I'm still in the process of learning the guitar. Mainly classical but bass and jazz as well. Wanted to have the ability to record the instruments especially with another. I'm am new to all things musical and really didn't find google that helpful until I came upon this unit and from there, several videos gave me a better sense of how.

This is the ideal unit for me. You take it out of the box, connect it to your computer via the supplied USB-C cable and it directs you step-by-step from that point on. If there is a decision to make, they include the option to watch a video to explain the choices. I chose the most complicated path and within 2 hours recorded my first track. A lot of that depended on download speed and that I watched every video option presented.

I look forward to using this a lot.

Their support videos are fantastic.

I had the first generation 8i6 Scarlett and just bought the 3rd generation solo. It’s totally a different sound volume and quality. Best interface I have had.

I have been a Focusrite Solo user and this is a fantastic upgrade. The air button is a nice touch to sweeten the sound. Well built and I’m already getting great recordings with it. Easy and intuitive to use, works great with Garageband.

This little thing is fantastic for the money. I use 2 "quiet" mics, a Shure SM58 and Beta 57a. With a Fethead attached, I only need to raise the gain a couple of notches to get a clean signal. Without the Fethead, I need to crank up the gain 1/4 -1/2 of the way up but it doesn’t introduce too much noise. It does but it's not quite deal breaking. This makes it a perfect device for podcasting, streaming but also for making great sounding recordings in a padded studio.

The quality is far superior to the Presonus Audiobox USB which I also use for instruments. But that's because I've had that one for a while. If I had to buy all over again, I'd pick a Focusrite with more inputs. I'm really impressed by how good the quality is.

The software included is demos of great programs but I don't use demos. That's where the Presonus device is much better: it comes with Studio One Artist which is an amazing Pro-Tools like DAW and some top quality plug ins. It also has MIDI In/Out. You have to pay a more to get that from Focusrite but I think the quality of the mic pre-amp is totally worth it.

 I received this audio interface for Christmas and I've been very happy with it. The build quality is top notch and it's packed with features. I was using the 2i2 (2nd Gen) and decided to upgrade to this because of it's MIDI capabilities. I thought using the Focusrite Control software would annoy me compared to the physical switches, but it's actually very intuitive and I now prefer it over the physical switches. It's also nice that the interface automatically recognizes whether a line or instrument is plugged in, so I don't miss the physical switches at all. The gain is cleaner than my 2i2 was and the 4i4 does a decent job of pushing the Shure SM7B microphone. Highly recommend!

I saw that this interface was high on a lot of top 10 lists for audio interfaces so thought I would give it a chance, and it was the worst audio-related mistake I've ever made. When it works, it works fine. However it's the most unreliable piece of garbage I've ever owned.

First of all, it needs its own service running in Windows. I've been recording for over 10 years and owned 5+ audio interfaces and not a single other product has ever needed that. The biggest problem with this garbage is its constant cutouts. I think just about anyone with studio monitors is also using them as their general PC speakers, and that's how my PC is set up. I can't get through 10 minutes without this trash giving up and having to unplug and replug it to get it working again.

I contacted their tech support with this problem and the support they offered was laughable. First off, god help you if you don't have an available USB 2.0 port. Yes, you read that right. In 2020 this product does not work with USB 3.0. So good look finding a motherboard that even has USB 2.0 ports. I found 2 in the early months of 2020. That's right, only 2 motherboards that had even a single USB 2.0 port.

Long story short, just go with any other interface that has the number of inputs/outputs that you need. They're all pretty much the same, and this one somehow failed it's most basic purpose in "works most of the time". Stay away.

I have owned the product for about 6 months as of writing this review. When it works, it does exactly what I would want it to do. But, about 6-10 times per day (I use this setup for about 8 hours every night) it will cut off both microphone and speakers AND distorts my microphone into static. I have been trying to resolve the issue on my own searching all over every audio forum I can find, reddit, youtube, everything. I have fiddled with the windows settings including the bit rates, default sound devices (this is literally the only ones I have other than 2 of my monitors both of which are hard disabled), and redownloading and installing the drivers several times. I cannot get it to stop with these issues. I have gotten it to decline in the amount as when it first started occurring it happened roughly 5 times per hour I used it. But it seems like what I have done so fair has helped only mildly. I still investigate this on a weekly basis as I generally use it as an audio interface for my Rode NT1A and for gaming/streaming which is literally every single day. The only way I can get it to reset after it bugs out is literally pulling the USB-C power cable and hard rebooting it. After it will usually be good for about an hour and then starts to bug out again.

I bought this for the direct USB interface only. I've experience with Focusrite's bigger interfaces and felt this was a good deal and no more than I needed to get guitar into DAW. Amazon listing touted all sorts of freebies:

"Includes Pro Tools | first Focusrite creative pack, Ableton Live Lite, Softube time and tone bundle, focusrite’s Red plug-in Suite, 3-month splice subscription, and your choice of one free XLN Addictive keys virtual instrument, All available via download upon purchase and registration - Limited time offer: free ujam virtual guitarist Iron plug-in upon registration and download"

Registered online and got nothing about free downloads, etc. Nothing in the box, but interface, USB cable and safety notice. Not sure if ripped off by Amazon, wouldn't surprise me, or by Focusrite.

Good luck with this product if you're planning on using it with a Windows 10 computer. You'll need it.

We tried some suggested changes with Windows settings but to no avail. Why again should you have to change Windows settings to get a product to work? Forget it. I'm not a big Windows 10 fan, but if the product isn't going to work with this operating system then the seller should clearly state that.

The worst thing about this device, which is a huge problem only with the gen 3 it seems is the drivers for windows they are horrid and have done nothing but cause issues with my Scarlett, the only problem is that the drivers are kinda needed for this device. It was causing my mic to randomly go static and it was completely random the same cable and mic used on a behringer uphoria um-2 had never had this issue which is why I’m just gonna save my self the trouble and go switch back to that. I have friends that have had no issues with the Scarletts and was recommended it from them but due to the fact that it makes my mic go from static and sometimes robotic randomly only when the Scarlett drivers are installed from the official website I’m gonna have to pass on this. Bewarned before buying the gen 3 and try and get the gen 2 if possible cause the drivers for the gen 2 are way better and don’t seem to have these issues

REVISED REVIEW:

I'm an easy customer. The thing works, I'm happy. Thing doesn't work, I'm unhappy. The Focusrite worked out of the box (YAY!). Then it has issues (BOO!). Then I resolved said issues (YAY!). Now it works as expected.

Has this device been a walk in the park? No, not really. There are some tweaks you need to make to your computer (See Update 7/7/2020 & 8/21/2020).

With that said, I have been using my Focusrite LITERALLY every day. I have a Rode NT1 attached and I use that for video conferencing, recording vocals for my band GreyHalo, for podcasts, and for playing only D&D with family and friends. It's been a huge asset in this online life, and I have to say .. I'm happy I got this.

While I originally said I would hard pass in the future, I've decided I LIKE my Focusrite 2i2. It's nor perfect, but from what I've read on other audio interfaces, nothing is. My son has a PreSonus AudioBox USB 96 2x2 USB Audio Interface and we've had to do some tweaking to his laptop to get it to work as expected. I realize that it's impossible for any company to know how everyone's computer will work with their hardware.

So would I recommend this again? Yes, yes I would. And in fact, I have. And with that, I've also told them the tweaks I've made and how to do it so they can get faster results.

I still have latency in my DAW of choice (Reaper), but that's something I'll have to resolve in the DAW. Not Focusrite's fault. But I've used some pretty hoity-toity VST/VSTi with this Focusrite 2i2 and it's handled everything like a champ. I'm not disappointed one bit in my purchase. And in the future, when I need something beefer, you can be sure I'll look to Focusrite once more.

UPDATE 8/21/202:

OK! After scouring the interwebs, I think I found out the issue with crackling in certain software (Discord, Facebook video, Steam chats). It turns out most of those software requires a higher sample rate. I had my Focusrite set at 44100, which was the default that the audio interface started at. HOWEVER, if you put it at 48000 with a buffer size of 192 then the crackling is gone and you can use any software as excepted.

UPDATE 7/7/2020:
After finally getting through to customer support (took some time) I have finally fixed the issue. It's actually a USB issue. Windows has a feature that puts USB devices to sleep, and for some reason does not see the audio interface as an active device even if it's being used. Which is weird and frustrating. Once I disabled the option it's not had any issues. The lack of star is because it took so blooming long for them to get back to me I almost abandoned all hope.

However, since I had it fixed I recorded several songs with no issues. Lord willing my music career will finally see some fruition.

Is it worth the purchase? For the price, yeah it's a decide device. I do wish I would have gotten the Presonus as it has midi in, but I think if you don't have a need for midi this is a solid device that should last a while.

ONE last issue. Latency. If I can use Guitar Rig with my guitar in real time that would be great. But I haven't figured out if that's because of my DAW (Reaper) or the device.

ORIGINAL REVIEW:
I'm going to start this off by saying I work in IT. I'm also not new to the recording world as I've used other products in the past. So I know my way around buffer sizes and sample.

With that said, I'm going to flat out say that this has been nothing but a pain in my neck. I bought the Scarlet 2i2 with the intention of recording voices for games and animation, as well as podcasts. Since the quarantine order, I've used it for video conferencing with work. And, it works. I have a Rode NT1 and everything sounds amazing.

HOWEVER, the driver will crash constantly. I'll be watching a video, and it will just stop working. I'll be in the middle of a conference call, and it will crash. It's crashed while recording a podcast. It's crashed while recording a video. It just .. crashes.

And the only thing I can do is force it to restart by changing the buffer size. Then it kicks back in and I'm good for a while.

It's beyond infuriating. There are no errors in the event log. All the drivers are up to date, as far as I know. Except the Focusrite website is always seems to be down. My computer is more than powerful enough to run this relatively simple device.

I really want to like this, and I really want to recommend these to my friends who also are looking for hardware for recording their own podcasts and videos and so on. In this time of isolation, people are looking for professional solutions to record good audio. This interface ... I'd do a hard pass.

When I first tried the 2i2 I was very frustrated with the terrible scratchy crackling sound on output (I hadn't even tried recording yet, just playback.) After a lot of googling I found the solution: DO NOT USE IT ON A USB 3 PORT. Hopefully your computer, like mine, also has USB2 ports. I was just about to return it when I found the solution.

Seriously, Focusrite: get your software to work with today's hardware! Bush league. It's a shame that with such excellent hardware they can't get their software quality higher.

The installation process on Windows is great, on the FIRST computer you install it on. It starts out looking to the computer like a USB memory stick; you click on the file the easy-installation instructions tell you to, and it holds your hand through the whole process. Really first rate.

However, if you need to install it on a second computer, you'd better have a clue. It's easy, just download the drivers from their website and then plug in the device, and do the usual plug-and-play dance. But the process is not documented, so you have to just figure that out yourself. (I have no idea how well it works if you just plug it in without installing the drivers first. Maybe it's a good experience, but I bet you get the usual "no known driver" experience.) Sadly, I could not find any way to turn it back into a "new" unit ("MSD mode" for Mass Storage Device.) No doubt there is one, for customer returns! But good luck finding it on the web or in Focusrite's documentation.

The feature set is really perfect for this type of device, and very intuitive for a beginner. The red/yellow/green LEDs that surround the input gain knobs are handy for seeing if your levels are too high. There's no documentation on what the dB level is for yellow, but I'll figure that out using my DAW.

Its 48v phantom power is a must-have for me, since condenser mics require it.

The zero-latency monitoring control is simple and straightforward: click once for mono, again for stereo (channel 1 -> left, channel 2 -> right), and again to turn off.

All controls have obvious indicators on the front panel, and it remembers the settings if you unplug and replug USB, reboot, etc.

It'd be 5 stars for sure, if it didn't fail so miserably on USB3 ports, especially with no indication that they're not supported.

To start, I rarely if never write negative reviews, and I probably have never given a one-star review since I have been an Amazon customer.

This is the second box that I have under a manufacturer's generous 3-years warranty. The problem is my first box (in this order) stopped working a month in. My second box, replaced under warranty stopped working a few months in. When it fails, the box is not recognized by any of my operating systems - Windows and IOS (iPhone and iPad) - and I have tried them over and over, exhausting the suggestions provided by Focusrite customer support. Focusrite customer support does get back to you but they do not have any answer for why this is happening. Cannot get it to work with any of my DAWs once the connection light goes out. And when it goes out it is permanent it seems. Customer support said they can replace with a third box but that they cannot refund money as I purchased through from Amazon and not through them.

In its place I instead bought the relatively new MOTU M2 and in comparison am very happy so far! But I am still left with a $250 Focusrite paperweight, that I guess I could continue to keep replacing until the warranty runs out. But that is hardly reliable and a good use of my time, as I never know when the box will quit.

Amazon needs to step up here it make it right, by refunding my purchase. Very unhappy, and I am truly sorry I went with Focusrite despite all of the glowing reviews.

It mostly works as intended, although it did spontaneously disconnect once. I read that it could be because of flakiness in USB power. Maybe the power draw is a little too high for smaller laptops. However, this disconnect only happened 1 time for me out of the several hours I used it, so YMMV.

The sound quality is about as good as a pre-amp can get. It's also unnecessary to pay this much for good sound. I traded this for a cheaper behringer HD after doing an actual scientific blind test using an XLR splitter from the same microphone: Sound quality is totally identical. There is simply no scientific evidence (blind a/b tests) to support the claim that high-end pre-amps will make a difference in sound, other than the super-expensive ones adding distortion which some might call "character".

I’m an indie artist, and for me to not simply use my iMac, alone, for everything is a step forward! This device has improved my sound immensely! I sound so professional. It’s easy to install, thanks to YouTube videos provided by the site. The Instructions Were clear and precise, ensuring I made no mistakes and I was up and running, literally in minutes.

I’m no techie, so to give specifics in numbers and all isn’t going to happen with me, but it is an amazing tool to have in a home studio. Or for me, my office.I have it paired with the NT1-A Rode microphone and my producer has sent me praises! So yes, this interface is a game changer.

Every now and then, I get a bit of static in my headphones when I turn the device on, but it does go away. I have. No idea why it happens, but it’s a great device for me as a first-time, indie artist looking to grow. Hope this helps!

I am disappointed! I read such fascinating reviews and didi enough web-research and determined this product a viable alternative to my larger, more complex and older MAC DI/USB input box. THE GOOD: I love the way it is built: is sturdy and just small enough to be usable and not to get in any ones way. THE BAD: Yes, I agree with other review regarding the rather tortuous method of installing the Pro Tools First app (which has a rather dated interface on the mac.) It did work decently. The problem is the audio both in the monitor jack (tried numerous headsets) and through the monitor speaker jack: it is almost non-existent and when it is there is is full of static and clipping even though nothing appears to be over-driven at any input. NOTE: Any application from Preview, Itunes to Pro Tools and Garagaband produce this terrible audio. I am running one of two macs (a 2015 iMAC running Mojave) and 2018 IMAC PRO 27.5 also running Mojave OS. Nothing matters. I returned this unit and took the 20 minutes extra setting up my 2008 USB interface and it work splendidly no drivers needed and NO updates needed (NOW THAT WAS A SURPRISE.)