CloseStep Up to a Serious Interface
Stop screwing around with those cheap, consumer-grade audio interfaces and get something that actually sounds good! RME Fireface 800 FireWire interfaces aren't for wimpy wannabes hiding out behind wussy budget interfaces with worthless converters, junk preamps, and more noise and jitter than a bunch of teenagers who've been chugging the energy drinks. RME Fireface 800s are for real engineers - the kind of engineers who demand quality and consistency from their gear. We're talking about 56 solid channels here and up to 24-bit/192kHz top-quality, first-round-knockout performance. The RME Fireface 800 is absolutely NOT for the faint of heart or weak of spirit!For once, you can demand 119dB of dynamic range from a built-in microphone preamp and get it without all of that noise and jitter. The Fireface 800 delivers eight line-level inputs and four of some of the best darn preamps ever built into an interface. And everything is totally locked together, thanks to RME's SteadyClock technology. You can even sync it via LTC and VITC, and never have to worry about jitter - period. Do I even have to tell you they've got switchable phantom power and multiple gain modes? I didn't think so. But I bet you didn't know that the RME Fireface 800's also got this killer built-in instrument soft-limiter so you can plug in and record guitar and bass and it will actually sound good. Yeah, that's right - the Fireface 800 doesn't just have "Instrument Inputs" but actual circuitry designed to let you DI your axe without adding suck to the tone.
Now onto the digital I/O. If you're stepping up to an RME Fireface 800 then you've either already got or are going to someday get some pretty cool gear with digital outputs. Well, the Fireface 800 will be ready for it all. It's got two (not just one, like those other interfaces) ADAT I/Os and one S/PDIF. And you can use all of the Fireface 800's I/O at the same time, so there's none of that annoying internal routing nonsense junk to mess with. You can even use both the 1/4" and the XLR jacks of the mic channels at the same time, giving you access to 35 signal sources and 28 input channels at once. Plus, you also get RME's DSP-based TotalMix signal routing, so you can rout, submix, and distribute signal as you please - and all of the routing will stay the way you set it, even if you disconnect the Fireface 800 from your computer.
RME Fireface 800 FireWire Interface Features at a Glance:
- Input AD: 8 x 1/4" TRS, 4 x XLR, 4 x 1/4" TRS Line, all servo-balanced. 1 x 1/4" TS unbalanced
- Output DA: 8 x 1/4" TRS, servo-balanced, DC-coupled signal path. 1 x 1/4" TRS unbalanced
- Input Digital: 2 x ADAT optical or SPDIF optical, SPDIF coaxial (AES/EBU compatible)
- Output Digital: 2 x ADAT optical or SPDIF optical, SPDIF coaxial (AES/EBU compatible)
- MIDI: 1 x MIDI I/O via 5-pin DIN jacks, for 16 channels low jitter hi-speed MIDI
- Dynamic range AD: 109dB RMS unweighted, 112 dBA
- THD AD: < -110dB (< 0.00032 %)
- THD+N AD: < -104dB (< 0.00063 %)
- Crosstalk AD: > 110dB
- Dynamic range DA: 116dB RMS unweighted, 119 dBA (unmuted)
- THD DA: < -103dB (< 0.0007 %)
- THD+N DA: < -100dB (< 0.001 %)
- Crosstalk DA: > 110dB
- Sample rate internally: 32, 44.1, 48, 64, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 128, 176.4, 192kHz
- Sample rate externally: 28kHz-200kHz
- 1 x Word Clock I/O
- 4 x Mic/Line Inputs with Preamps
- 1 x Instrument input adjustable
- 2 x FireWire 800
- 1 x Firewire 400
- TotalMix DSP mixing
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