The preamps are astounding

Preamps are awesome, software compatibility with Mac is flawless, sound is thick and rich

Finally, the highly praised preamps lived up to their reputation

The mic preamps sound fantastic and now I have 4 of them to record more instruments

Great mic preamps

Preamps are excellent

The preamps are really transparent, but not as powerfull as I expected

I love it, it has really nice preamps, sounds great and one of the the features I really like in this interface, that you can't find in others that are similar to this one, is that that it comes with 2 headphone outputs with individual volume knos for each one, that is definately a plus if maybe you're recording someone in the same

But ultimately, my research led me to believe the preamps in Focusrite products are superior

The preamps are adequate for my ribbon mic, although they are near the top of their gain

The Tascam is a budget interface that definitely gets the job done, but bland preamps, dodgy construction, and buggy drivers make it a love/hate relationship

The hardware is awesome: the preamps sound great, the box is aluminum and durable and intuitive

Beautiful sounding preamps, a great customizable mixer with multiple monitor channels makes it superior for complex studio recording

The preamps are very transparent, instruments come through crisply, and overall, the Scarlett 18i8 is very easy to set up and use

It's a similar interface with 8 mic pre's, which I need for recording drums, but I wanted to upgrade to something more stable and with better preamps

The mixer is as close to silent as you can get.

you have to put the gain up to 8 or 9 for vocals, and with a condenser mic ( Audio-Technica AT2035) maybe at 8 or 7, what I was getting before with a M-audio Fast Track at maybe 4 or 3.5