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Originally Posted by
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Heh. Well, regardless of whether I end up buying one I hope you enjoy it. I'm primarily interested in the fact that this has a built in valve/tube for the mic input (and that it supposedly has a great headphone amp). I no longer have any outboard gear that the re-amp solution would support.
It also is interesting that it appears to produce two recording streams to the DAW simultaneously: one with the amp/mic modeling stuff printed, and one "dry." (Although if you switch the valve in, that is considered part of the dry signal, which is a bummer).
I sold my tube mic, so having a tube pre is attractive... but if I bought this, it would be my primary audio interface and I'm not sure that's what I need. I think I need a second headphone output more than a tube pre.
If you were just using the mic or line in you can turn on the pre but you just get one track in that case unless you also run the mic through the two-note effects.
If you wanted a clean, non tube signal you can record with the tube off and then reamp through the valve input and tune the tube stage to suit. Im pretty sure it should be possible to do this by routing the reamp out straight back into the guitar input. Not sure what sending a vocal through the high impedance circuit would sound like. Alternatively you can could use the headphone output to take a line channel back through the line input.
The id44 from Audient has two headphone outputs but is more than three times the price of the sono (although not much more than the sono was when released!).
I think Iām going to get a Sono. It should also be a fairly big upgrade over my current interface in terms of out and out sound quality too.