Great software interface and excellent preamps

The preamps sound really good as far as interface preamps go

The mic preamps are all completely silent.

It's got a lot of great aspects to it, though - preamps are great, tons of i/o's, easy to use -

This is a great product, I really think the Saffire is above the rest of the 8-channel interfaces on this price range because of the excellent mic preamps the monitoring options and the routing possibilities

Unfortunately, this is bad for at least two reasons: 1. introducing another piece of equipment before the focusrite degrades the recorded sound, especially if the preamps are junk.

It works perfectly with Pro Tools 9, the preamps sound great and the mix control software provides great flexibility in signal routing

The preamps sound great and the monitoring is handy

The preamps are very good and better than other units I tried

The preamps are very good and better than

Pros: 8 Great sounding preamps with plenty of gain to accommodate any recording situation I've been faced with thus far

Love all of the aspects and the onboard preamps are not terrible for demoing or even some final release purposes

The 2x2 phantom power works as excepted however I would have liked to see 4 separate phantom power channels rather than groupings for inputs 1-2 and 3-4

Even my cheap little old M-Audio Fast Track Pro had a couple of insert jacks.- Focusrite is very specific in their manual about not turning the Saffire on or off while the computer is powered on, or damage may occur

Even my cheap little old M-Audio Fast Track Pro had a couple of insert jacks.- Focusrite is very specific in their manual about not turning the Saffire on or off while the computer is powered on, or damage may occur