So, a good friend and our vocalist is thinking about upgrading his basic "bed room studio" to a more advanced solution.
He is considering to buy a mic preamp for whole band recording as well as a new interface and some headphone preamp.
As he digged his Scarlett USB interface, following models are considered:
https://www.thomann.de/de/focusrite_scarlet...i20_2nd_gen.htmhttps://www.thomann.de/de/focusrite_scarlet...arlett_405402_9Invests for power supply and headphone preamp are less high and not considered.
How do you think will this improve over his current USB interface I think a scarlett 2i2.
From what I know I would assume that preamps built in to USB interfaces are quite good nowadays, but our vocals recording really miss quality of the pure vocal signal.
As the scarlett octopre is also not offering a tube preamp, there is only one major advantage which is the compression for each channel as well as the AD-/DA-transistor.
Wouldnt the scarlett 18i20 as an audio interface serve similar purposes? I am not an expert, but I cannot find the difference why it would make sense to buy the scarlett octo as a preamp.
Any thoughts?