Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 Gen3 - EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW

in this video we're looking at the focusrite scarlet 18i8 generation 3 audio interface we'll look at the unit register it set it up check out the features and record here's what's included you'll get the unit a power cable that's about 80 inches long and a usb-c to usb-a cable that's about 39 inches long if you want to use a usb-c to usb-c cable you'll need to purchase that separately and i'll have a link in the description below of the usbc cable that i use you'll also get a collection of software and plugins when you register the unit the scarlet 18i8 gen 3 looks and feels like quality when you touch it it has an all metal chassis with the focusrite logo on top and on the bottom you'll find your serial number and there are four rubber feet to keep the unit in place on the front you have four combo inputs you can use quarter inch cables for instruments or line level devices and xlr cables for microphones inputs one and two are mic line or instrument level and inputs three and four are mic or line level and that essentially means you'd plug your guitar or bass into inputs one or two and not three or four although if you have very high output active pickups you could technically plug your guitar or bass into inputs through four as well and no active pickups are not line level but they can have higher output and they have significantly lower impedance to switch between instrument or line level on inputs 1 and 2 open the included focusrite control software and make your selection if using an xlr cable these settings will have no effect the input will automatically be set for mic level and this applies to all four front inputs individually the four mic preamps have 56 db of gain and that will be enough for most microphones i've used a shore sm7b with this unit and it worked pretty well however with gain hungry microphones like the shure sm7b which perform best with 60-70 db of gain you may want to invest in a cloud lifter type device to give yourself an extra 20 to 25 db of clean gain and we'll have links below for those and i would suggest that you get one if you're going to be using mics like the shure sm7b the preamps sound great they are clean low noise natural and detailed plus you have the air feature which models the frequency response of the classic focusrite isa mic preamps it adds detail and clarity on the top end and works great for vocals and even podcasting but you can also use it with instruments like guitar for example you can turn air on and off per input by using the button in the focusrite control software this is the focusrite scarlett 18i8 with the shure sm7b and right now air is turned off again air is turned off now air is turned on here on the focusrite 18i8 using the shure sm7b again air is turned on air is turned off air is turned off air is turned on air is turned on if you're using condenser microphones or a cloud lifter type device you can turn on phantom power in pairs so if you only need phantom power for input 3 it can be off for inputs 1 and 2 and on for inputs 3 and 4. to set your input gain sing speak or play your instrument at a level representative of your performance and adjust the gain knob as you increase the gain you'll notice the gain halos change from green to yellow to red turn the gain up until you see yellow and then turn it down ensuring that you're in the green most of the time and any peaks only hit yellow or amber and you never get into the red if you hit red that means you're clipping and it will ruin your audio you can also change the gain halo colors in focusrite control if your input source has a very high level and you keep clipping you can engage the -10 db pad in the focusrite control software then you have a monitor knob which controls the total output volume and you can select which rear outputs it controls in the focusrite control software and all of these knobs feel great with smooth travel in just the right amount of resistance which helps in setting levels if you have two pairs of studio monitors plugged into the line outputs on the rear you can use the alt function to switch between pairs to check your mix on different speakers activate speaker switching and focusrite control and click the alt button to switch between pairs in our case that would mean we can hear our mix through our black monitors plugged into outputs 1 and 2 and then switch to the white monitors that are plugged into outputs 3 and 4. with speaker switching off you could set up focusrite control to output sound to both pairs of monitors at the same time if you wish if you have midi gear plugged into the rear you'll see the led flash on the front when midi data is received the usb led will be green when the unit is connected and recognized by your computer you have two headphone outputs with individual volume knobs and you can customize the mix going to each output with the focusrite control software overall the headphone amp is pretty good rather loud and will work for most people but if you are using professional headphones with very high ohms that are difficult to drive and you have the volume knob cranked but it's not quite loud enough remember you have an extra 6 db per channel you can access in focusrite control on the rear of the unit you have four line level inputs the inputs are balanced and the gain is not adjustable you would plug things like the output of a mixer output of another audio interface or an external effects unit into these inputs then your four line outputs and this is where you would connect your studio monitors or to drive outboard gear and again these are the outputs you can control with the main volume knob and you can set that up in focusrite control you have a midi input and output port for gear that requires them although most midi gear today will be connected with usb directly to your computer there is your usbc port since this is a usb 2.0 device be sure to plug into a usb2 or usb 3 port on your computer i actually use a usbc 3.1 port with a usbc to usbc cable that i purchased separately this is a kensington security slot so you can secure the unit to a structure if needed the optical input uses a toss link connector to give you up to eight more channels of digital audio in adat format and it can be used as an spdif input if you have gear with an optical spdif output and of course you would set this up in focusrite control you might use the optical input for an external mic preamp for example you have spdif input and output here's where you connect your power supply meaning this unit is not usb bus powered and you must plug it into an outlet and the power switch is here on the rear the 18 i8 gen 3 also has a loopback built in you can use loopback to record computer audio into your daw or send daw audio out into obs for example lootback makes it easy to stream podcast or create dw plugin review videos for youtube if you are buying an audio interface in the year 2021 or beyond make certain it has loopback you are going to need it now we'll register the unit and get our drivers you could do this manually but let's use the guided method connect the power supply and usb cable to the unit and plug them in then turn on the 18i8 [Music] the first time you turn on the unit it will be in storage mode and will appear as a disk drive on your computer click into it and open the getting started link then all you have to do is follow the prompts you can also just get your essential software here but i want to register the unit and i already have an account so i'll log in but if you don't just follow the prompts that work for you since we are registering with the guided method our serial number is already filled in but if you ever need it you can always find it on the bottom of the unit fill in your date of purchase and where you bought it now we'll get focusrite control and this will include any needed drivers if you get mixed up everything is explained on this page go ahead and install focusrite control and then restart your computer once your computer restarts the registration process will pick back up where you left off and first we'll click ok on this prompt to take the 18 i8 out of msd mode so it functions the way we want and it will no longer show as a disk drive on your computer but you should also be aware that your computer probably automatically switched the audio playback engine for windows to the 18i8 and that just means all windows sound will come out of the scarlet and not your computer speakers you can leave the setting as it is or switch it back to the previous setting which is usually real tech for computers or laptop speakers just understand that windows can have a separate audio engine from your daw's audio engine and that means i could hear youtube and windows media player through my computer or laptop speakers and hear the output of studio 1 through the 18i8 or hear everything meaning all computer sounds browsers media players youtube etc and your daw through the 18i8 but you must understand that any audio playing through the 18i8 will not be heard through speakers plugged into your computer or through laptop speakers you will only hear the audio if you connect speakers or headphones directly to the 18i8 unit so let's click ok and the scarlett will restart and we'll continue with setup just follow the prompts you'll find several videos along the way be sure to watch them if you need further guidance once again select the option that works for you and watch the video if needed your 18i8 will come with a couple free daws and they will guide you through the installation by the way anyone can get pro tools first for free at any time over at the avid website i already have a daw so i don't need these if you need any further help getting set up you can choose to watch more videos but we'll move on check out the focusrite control video if you want follow more prompts check out more videos and let's go to our account there's our 18i8 you can grab the pdf user guide right here if you ever need to go through the getting started guide again and re-watch the videos you can do so right here if you need focusrite control and the drivers you can get them here and you can access your bundled software and plugins here exactly what you see may differ and new free plugins are added to the plugin collective every couple of months install everything install just a couple plugins whatever you prefer it's very straightforward and you're done the 1898 is registered the drivers are installed you can open and use focusrite control and you're ready to record now i'll check out focusrite control to get an understanding of how to use it you can open focusrite control from the shortcut on your desktop from the start menu or from the tray click the focusrite app and choose mixing routing we'll start with output routing focusrite control will allow you to set up different mixes for each physical output you can set up your no latency direct monitor mix for each input and output and the blend of playback from your daw one of the most important things to understand about custom mixes is that they do not affect what's actually going into the daw or playing in the daw so you're not going to mess up your daw mix this is just for monitoring and routing of course an example would be if a guitar is plugged into input 1 we have our input gain set we select the input in our daw and we want to use a guitar amp plugin in that case we don't need to hear the direct monitor of the guitar which of course would be the dry guitar [Music] because we only want to hear the output of the daw and not a blend of the two so you can turn down the volume of the direct guitar in focusrite control and we still have the same input level in pro tools and then when you play your guitar you'll only hear the amp plugin [Music] in this case you could also just choose playback 1 2 for your monitor outputs and achieve the same thing [Music] another example would be an acoustic guitar player using headphone output 1 in a vocalist using headphone output 2 and they're going to record at the same time the mic for the guitar is plugged into input 3 the mic for the vocalist is plugged into input 4 and the gain is already set the guitar player wants to hear more of themselves in their headphones and the vocalist wants to hear more of themselves in their headphones to avoid confusion you may want to label the headphones with the names of the musicians but we'll name headphone 1 guitar and headphone 2 vocals we'll also name the inputs guitar and vocals set the source for headphone 1 and 2 to custom mix select headphone one and raise the level of the guitar mic and perhaps lower the level of the vocal just a bit so the guitar player can hear themselves better you can also mute or solo inputs and if you want to default a fader to zero just double-click if you want to center a pan control just double-click select headphone 2 and adjust input 4 until the vocalist is satisfied never fade by the light [Music] if the guitar is too loud for the singer you can turn down the input and if the drums playing in the daw are also too loud for the vocalist you can turn down the daw playback level here since we're using the direct monitor for our microphones which is a no latency you'd also want to mute the input channels in your daw while recording to avoid doubling this is what doubling sounds like not very good meet our input and now we hear ourselves with no latency also if you're using the live microphones in the same room as your speakers be sure to turn down the volume of the monitor output or mute it in focusrite control otherwise you'll create a feedback loop then when you check the mix for headphone 1 and headphone 2 you can see they are different for each output of course you don't have to set up custom mixes for each output if you only want to use the mixer in your daw or record using plugins live of course you can always add plugins later just set the source for your outputs to playback daw 1-2 or as an example if your daw is using output 5 6 for a track or mix you could select that in focusrite control if you only want to hear an input or route it you could choose hardware input and select the pair you want if you wanted a single channel just turn off stereo on the output when on custom mix if you need to see more input channels click the plus and add them in mono or stereo or remove them or click the x to remove and you can do the same for software daw playback one two will be sufficient for most cases but if you have a different output in your software you can add that here if you come to edit you can copy and paste mixes under file you can load pre-made output presets and you can save and recall your own snapshots or presets so you only need to set something up once you can also dim your monitors which will lower the volume so you can talk to someone without stopping playback or check your mix at a lower level without adjusting the volume knob you can mute outputs and if you're ever confused about what something does in focusrite control look down here in the information section whenever you hover over a control it will tell you exactly what it does here on the input settings you can do things like switch between line and instrument level turn on air and apply a minus 10 db pad click the gear icon and you can do things like change sample rate set clock source enable speaker switching which we already looked at set which outputs the monitor knob controls retain 48v which just means if this option is enabled and you have phantom power on when you turn the 1898 off and back on phantom power will automatically be how you left it change your spdif source if your spdaf gear is using a toast link cable and even change the color of your gain halos you also have retain 48v and sample rate under device and help will take you to the help section of the focusrite website we'll check out how to record in a daw first we'll record a microphone and then we'll look at how to record a guitar using amp plugins if you haven't done so yet go ahead and connect studio monitors and or headphones to the 18i8 so you can hear when recording and playing back the first step for any daw is to make sure the 18i8 is the playback device and how you do this depends on the daw you are using in pro tools go to setup playback engine and make sure the focusrite usb audio driver is selected then you may need to default your io so you have the proper inputs and outputs listed in pro tools go to setup io and on the input tab choose default on the output tab choose default and on the bus tab choose default if your inputs and outputs still are not correct go back to setup io and on the outputs tab select all of the outputs and delete the path then default it again you may need to do this for the inputs tab and bus tab as well once you're done if you have existing tracks you'll need to set the output of those to output one two and our inputs look good as well so we're ready to record in pro tools if you were using studio one you can select your audio interface on the start page and set the audio device to focusrite usb create a new song add some tracks and if you check your inputs you may only have inputs 1 and 2 available if you want to use the other inputs we can add those in audio i o setup add them in stereo mono or both name them if you want and you can do the same thing on the outputs tab if you need to but most people will leave this to just one too you can make this the default i o as well for studio one so every new song will have these settings automatically hit ok check your inputs and now we have the inputs available that we want and we're ready to record in studio one this process will be different but similar for all daws and depending on the daw you may not have to do any of this especially if it's your only audio interface i on the other hand switch between several different audio interfaces so if you're like me it's a good idea to export your i o settings for each interface and daw so that way you can import them later and get right to work with no setup let's record a microphone and we'll use pro tools we already have the 18 i8 as our playback device and the i o is set up from the previous chapter so we're ready to go first turn down your monitor volume since we'll be using a microphone in the same room as our speakers and we don't want to create a feedback loop let's use input 4 and since this is a condenser microphone we'll turn on phantom power in pro tools create a mono audio track select input 4 input monitor the track and you should see the input put on your headphones turn up the volume and open focusrite control select the headphone output and i want a custom mix if you're following along you probably hear a doubling effect and that's because we hear the direct no latency monitor of the 18i8 and the output of pro tools this is what doubling sounds like not very good meet our input and now we hear ourselves with no latency there's many ways to deal with this depending on what you're trying to do but normally you'll just mute the input in your daw now we hear ourselves with no latency adjust the input gain make sure you're not clipping set your headphone volume if you need even more volume to hear yourself remember you have that extra 6 db in focusrite control if you have other tracks playing in your daw you can adjust the volume of the daw level in your headphones here again we already have our speakers turned down but you could also use the mute in focusrite control record enable the track and hit record this is recording a microphone with the focusrite scarlett 18i8 there are no plugins at all on this audio so you're just hearing the microphone and you can really hear the clarity in detail of the preamps and that's it you can then mix and add plugins to produce your track but if you're going to switch from headphones to speakers remember before you play back in order to prevent a feedback loop you could turn off phantom power if it's a condenser mic or turn down the gain turn off the monitor in your daw and mute the direct input for your monitor outputs if you instead want to record a microphone while hearing plugins then you'll want to monitor through the daw again make sure the speakers are turned down set up your track and we will not mute it this time add your plugin or plugins you'll want to make sure your buffer is very low to avoid latency and you can change the buffer directly in your daw or the scarlet settings since we're going to listen through the daw in focusrite control we can mute the input or blend in the amount of the dry mic that you want to hear and balance with the output of the daw but i'll just mute it you could also change the headphone source to playback 1 2 and only use the mixer in your daw or you could even choose the system playback preset or load your own snapshot whatever you prefer let's turn on air adjust the input gain if you need to record enable the track and record this is recording a microphone through the focusrite scarlet 18i8 while using plugins live if you're new all of this may seem kind of complicated and you may think completing all of these steps will take a long time when you just want to record but really once you understand how to do this you can set it all up in under 30 seconds now let's check out how to record a guitar with an amp plugin and we'll use studio one five we already have the 18 i8 set up as our playback engine for studio one from a previous chapter and since we're going to use an amp plugin and listen through the daw make sure your buffer is low to avoid latency preferably 128 or below plug your guitar into input 1 or 2 although with this guitar since it has active pickups and is very high output i could plug it into 3 or 4 but i'll use input 1. if you have passive pickups you'll want to stick to input 1 or 2 since those inputs can be switched to instrument level and our high impedance in focusrite control go to input settings and switch input 1 to instrument level again with this specific active pickup guitar it could be set to line but we'll use instrument level and by the way you're not going to hurt your guitar or interface by switching between these so experiment if you have an active pickup instrument you could also turn on air to increase the high end content of your guitar at input experiment with this as well and since we're not using a microphone in the same room we can listen through our studio monitors so you can turn up the volume i'll grab the amp plugin i want to use throw it in and that will create the track forming i'll set the input to input one in studio one you can change your tracks to mono or stereo here just use what you need for your mix record enable the track and as long as your gain is up you should hear your guitar and amp plugin but there's an issue we can hear the dry guitar input and the amp plug-in output if i turn off the track monitor then you can hear just the dry guitar input which in this case is not what we want [Music] open focusrite control and since we're listening through our studio monitors select that it's currently on custom mix so in this case i can just mute the direct monitor for input 1. strum your guitar you'll see the input but you won't hear anything monitor the track and now you'll only hear the output of the amp plugin you also have the option of switching from custom mix to playback daw 1 2 or using the system playback preset or a snapshot that you created before you play or record be sure to set your input gain properly strum hard on your guitar like you would while playing and make sure you're not clipping and hitting red stay in the green with any peaks only hitting yellow and really you could stay between -18 and -8 to give yourself plenty of headroom and now you're ready to play practice or record if you'd like to play along with drums or any other instrument drag in some audio files or a drum virtual instrument plug-in set up your midi track and play or record [Music] now we'll check out the focusrite device settings app and this is different from focusrite control you can access the app from your tray or your start menu but we'll use the tray there are some important settings in here concerning the inputs and outputs windows and non-daw apps will see click the icon and at the top you can open the 18 i8 settings window and this will tell you your firmware version driver serial number you can change the sample rate here and as we know we can also change the sample rate in focusrite control and you can set the sample rate in your daw when creating a new session no matter where you change the sample rate these will all be the same you can change your buffer normally when recording you will have a low buffer for less latency and then raise the buffer when mixing to avoid pops clicks and playback errors once you start adding more plugins and virtual instruments which can be taxing to the cpu you can also change your buffer in your daw of course and select your clock source just as you can in focusrite control back to the tray choose mixing routing to open focusrite control if show notifications is checked you'll get an alert when a setting is changed now we get to two very important options the expose hide windows channels and windows sound panel open the expose hide windows channels by default windows and non-asio or non-dw apps won't have access to all of the inputs and outputs of the 18i8 now let's open the windows sound panel under the playback tab we only have the speaker output which is the physical one and two and under the recording tab which is the physical inputs and loopback we only have analog one and 2. what this means is if i wanted to use input 3 for a microphone directly within a non-asio app like skype zoom or obs for example for a live stream we don't have the input or if i wanted to use the 34 output for voc media player i don't have the output so any physical input loopback or physical output i want to be able to use with non-asio apps will have to be manually exposed to windows first but understand this is only for non-asio apps you will still have full access to all inputs and outputs in your daw even if you don't expose the channels to windows as you can see here in pro tools or studio one so let's expose inputs 3 4 loopback and outputs 3 4. open windows sound panel again and under playback we have our outputs under recording we have our inputs back in obs we can now select input 3 4 for the mic plugged into input 3 and since we're just using one input we set it to mono for the daw output choose our loopback source and it works go back to vlc and now we can set the output to 3 4 or we can even set the output of windows 2 3 4 if you wanted to if you're not hearing any output just head into focusrite control and you can try the direct routing preset or set up a custom mix making sure you add the proper software playback channel and set up your mix you could have your daw playing through output one and two and vlc or something else playing through output three and four if you ever needed to do that for some reason [Music] you could route a microphone directly into obs with zero latency and a guitar into your dw and then take the output of your daw and route it into obs through loopback and stream all of that on youtube or route your mic through the daw instead and use plugins live and route that into obs with loopback once you expose the channels you need to windows and setup your mix if needed in focusrite control the 18i8 becomes a monster audio interface between the unit itself and focusrite control it's an incredibly flexible way to work now we'll check out how to use loopback and loopback has many possible uses but we'll look at two and that is recording non-asio audio into a daw and sending your daw asio audio out into something like obs for live streaming or recording a plug-in demo video the first example is recording audio from a video playing in our browser into our daw for this example we need the playback engine for windows to be the 18i8 so be sure you have speakers focusrite usb audio selected our daw is also using the 18i8 as the playback engine on a stereo audio track set the input to loop one two and mute the track now you must mute the track before playback otherwise you'll get a nasty feedback loop by default focusrite control should be set up properly but if this isn't working for you pop into it select the loopback output and make sure the source is set to playback daw one two and this is because outputs one two are the audio outputs we're using for windows in your daw record enable the track hit record and play the video and the audio will be recorded the next example is taking audio playing in your daw and routing it out into another app like obs or streamlabs and obs and streamlabs are both free we'll use streamlabs this time but the settings will be identical in obs and most other screen recording and streaming software the 18i8 is of course the playback engine for our daw and the playback engine for windows doesn't have to be the 18i8 but it can be if you want in focusrite control the loopback source is set to playback one two because our daw main output is the one and two output and this is the default setting for most daws and the default setting in focusrite control so unless you changed something you won't have to mess with this part at all in stream labs in case you don't have a display capture add that so you can capture your screen add a new source name it choose the proper screen if you have multiples then we need to add our loopback source for our daw output add a source we want an audio input capture add the source we want a new source name it daw audio add the source under device choose loopback left right focusrite usb audio and remember as we covered in the 18i8 inputs outputs in windows section the loopback channels have to be manually exposed to windows so if you're not seeing the loopback inputs come to your focusrite settings app expose hide windows channels and be sure you have the loopback inputs checked once you do they'll be available to all non-asio windows apps click done in streamlabs and there's our source you could add more audio sources if you want like you could add a microphone directly into streamlabs so it's separate from your daw audio source which is useful if you're recording a video and want to edit the audio later or you could run the mic through your daw and that would be combined in your daw audio source since it's running through the daw any audio running through the daw will be captured in the daw audio track in stream labs so you could live stream a guitar performance with amp plugins stream a vocal performance with plugins podcast and playback audio clips when needed etc etc everything including plugins will be output to streamlabs or obs or whatever you happen to be using [Music] you could also add a webcam and there's plenty more you could do in here but let's say we're good now just run audio through your daw and it's all routed into streamlabs and you're ready to go live or record a video [Music] the loopback implementation in the 1898 gen 3 and focusrite control is among the best i've used not only is it very flexible but focusrite has come up with an elegant solution to avoid sample rate mismatches which often cause problems for people not aware but with the 18i8 when you set your sample rate it will be set for all inputs and outputs and that just means you won't have to come into your windows sound panel find an output or input click properties advanced and manually change the sample rate to match your non-asio application it's all done for you but a few things to note since the inputs are seen as pairs in windows if you happen to be using a single input we'll say three for a microphone run directly into streamlabs obs etc you'll want to down mix that input to mono otherwise your voice will be on one side welcome to the plugin review live stream let's check out this new plugin huh why you guys calling me lefty oh hold on a second i have to down mix this mic to mono there we go so now you should be hearing me properly let's get on with our live stream you could do this in windows if you have to by going to the sound panel recording tab find your input properties advanced and switch to one channel but usually it's easier to do this in streamlabs or obs or whatever program you are using all you need to do is open your advanced sound settings and down mix your mic to mono another thing to be aware of is you don't necessarily need to use playback daw one two as your source for loopback in focusrite control although playback one two will be what you want the majority of the time you could also use these other options if you have audio routed to them or you could set up a custom mix and have different inputs routed directly to the loopback control the daw volume going into obs [Music] and have a different monitoring mix for your headphones and speakers for example there's a lot more you could do with focusrite control and loopback and the last thing is if you have the 18i8 speakers selected as the windows playback device and your dw output is also 1 2 which is the default then your daw audio track in stream labs or obs will contain audio from both windows wdm apps and the asio audio stream from your daw also if your desktop audio track is enabled this will be duplicate audio from windows since we're already capturing windows sounds in the daw audio track again because we have the 18i8 as our windows playback device you could just turn this down mute it [Music] or disable it in settings having windows sounds and daw sounds on the same track is not a big deal for streaming because it's actually probably what you want but if you're recording a video and you want to edit the audio later then you'll want separate tracks so if you're playing windows audio and you need it on its own track be sure to change the playback engine for windows to something else you'll also have to set up these separate tracks by going to your advanced audio settings and make sure each source is being recorded on a separate track and then go to settings output advanced recording and select all the audio tracks you want to record there's actually way more you can do with loopback and focusrite control it's really an indispensable feature once you have an audio interface with loopback you will never buy one that doesn't have it and focusrite has done a really great job with their implementation of loopback we didn't specifically cover using spdif or adat because the vast majority of people will never use them but if you do use spdif or spdif as people call it or adat then you already know what to do since spdif and adat are standards the setup will be the same for any audio interface and you can route in focusrite control just understand if you happen to have an external spdif unit you can connect it here and use the inputs in your daw for example or send audio out or if you have something like an external adat mic preamp you can add up to 8 more mic inputs say to record a full drum kit using the 4 mic inputs on the 18 i8 and the 8 mic inputs on your external mic preamp exactly how you set this up will depend on the external gear you are using and if you're sending audio in or sending audio out but in general you'll need to do two things match your sample rates and set the clock source on both units the clocks will be the same and the settings will be opposite meaning for example with the adat mic preamp set to internal you'd set the 18i8 to adat in focusrite control so they are using the same clock so that's the focusrite scarlet 18i8 gen 3 a monster audio interface in a relatively small desktop design it has four great mic preamps the air feature two headphone outputs four line inputs four line outputs speaker switching spdif adat and loopback plus with focusrite control you have the flexibility to route things however you want so if you're looking for a new audio interface and if it fits your needs then the 18i8 is worth considering that's the focusrite scarlett 18i8 gen 3. you

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Length: 54min 14sec (3254 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 14 2021