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Agree. If was starting over, convertors would be last on my list.
Yep, I'd go along with that.
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GregR
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Disagree. All you hear on GS about Focusrite interfaces is problems, problems, problems, especially with Scarlett. To the OP, I'd honestly avoid Focusrite interfaces like the plague.
If you're on budget, the new Zoom seems a pretty good buy.
I don't agree with that at all though. You do get folks here on GS complaining about Focusrite gear - particularly the lower-end models - but I wouldn't say that you see significantly more complaints about them than about any other manufacturer of similar units. Not when you bear in mind that there may well be more of them than there are of some others (so even if their fault rate is the same as anyone else, you're potentially going to see more people complaining 'cos there's more units out there).
Second thing to bear in mind is that you don't tend to hear from the folks who don't have problems - for everyone who runs into some kind of problem, you don't know how many others are out there just working fine. That's a general rule with just about anything in any industry, most of the time you only hear from the unhappy customers.
And finally, I'd say that I've seen a fair number of complaints here on GS about all kinds of gear where there is actually nothing wrong with it at all - the user just has it configured wrongly, or had forgotten something in their setup or just plain doesn't have a clue what they're doing. I'd even go so far as to say that when it comes to those kind of issues, you're going to see more of them relating to lower-end gear such as Focusrite Scarletts, etc. because they will often be bought by users who are new to the whole thing and still have a lot to learn about signal flow and how to configure their DAWs and interfaces properly, etc.
So, on the whole, I don't think that Focusrite are any worse than anyone else generally speaking and, in some cases, their offerings are pretty decent in the "bang for your buck" stakes. Certainly more than happy with my LS56 which has been rock solid from day one and has been sitting in my rack for four years or so now.