Good News for Budget Studios - the Focusrite ISA 828

This one goes out to those people running hobby-recording studios or planning to start running one; in case you did not know by now, in order to have the vocal parts you plan to record sounding natural and warm, you should run the mics through microphone preamplifiers so that the sound goes warm and high enough to be further worked with.

Now, there are preamps and preamps, from the plastic ones promising you all the valve-emulation sound you could ever dream of andin fact sell for a couple of bucks just to offer you a lousy sound work exactly the same bucks (if the manufacturers are honest enough) to those preamps that require you to have actually sold your motorbike or other expensive gear before ordering them.

The Focusrite ISA 828 is nothing like those above: it is a very affordable 8-channel mic preamp that runs on transformers and which reproduces the same design and architecture as the acclaimed vintage Focusrite ISA 110 module in the historic Forte console, "including the original Lundahl L1538 transformer and bespoke zobel network" as the manufacturer proudly highlights.

The Focusrite ISA 828 runs also as a 4-channel instrument preamp and sports two 25-pin D-type connectors for seamless integration with DAWs like Pro Tools or harddisk recorders, mixing consoles and so on. The Focusrite ISA 828 sports no less than 4 pre-selected input impedances and will allow you to choose three more for ultimate creativity.

This 2U preamp offers 8-channel 192kHz ADC with both ultimate technology digital sound design and analog circuitry such as vintage high-pass filtering. Needless to say, the Focusrite ISA 828 sports 48V Phantom Power; it also comes with very handy 6-LED meter bridges for each channel, trimmed according to the Dididesign's HD system and providing accurate data with any DAW. Price TBA.

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