M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface Reviews

September 24, 2010 Brownweb 5 comments

M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface

FireWire audio interface for recording guitar, vocals, and more on Mac or PC music software
Front-panel XLR microphone input with gain control and clip LED
Front-panel 1/4-inch guitar input and 2 rear-panel 1/4-inch line inputs
Dual FireWire ports for easy device chaining; front-panel switch toggles between front and rear inputs
Rack-mountable metal chassis; includes FireWire cables; 1-year warranty

The FireWire Solo is designed from the ground up as an easy-to-use, high-quality interface for songwriters to record guitars, vocals and more on the computer. Compatible with most popular music software, this compact bus-powered unit is small enough to go anywhere you want to take your music. In addition to the 1/4″ guitar input right on the front panel, a professional XLR microphone input also lets you record vocals and acoustic instruments. There are also dual line inputs for effects, drum mac

Rating: (out of 21 reviews)

List Price: $ 249.99

Price: $ 186.22

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Written by M. Clarke about -26637 seconds ago.

Review by M. Clarke for M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface
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I’m using this on an Apple PowerBook G4 with a 1.33 GHz processor and 768 MB RAM. I mainly record through GarageBand, and after about 10 hours of use, it has worked flawlessly so far.

Controls in front are intuitive. The clip LEDs let you know when your input volumes are maxing out.

Note that you can record only two sources at once: either the front two (mic and line in) or the rear two (two line ins). I initially thought you could record 4 simultaneous tracks with this. There is, however, a switch on the front of the unit that allows you to choose front or rear inputs.

There is an extra firewire plug in the rear of the unit, which allows you to daisy-chain several firewire devices. This works perfectly for me on my 12″ PowerBook, which only has one firewire input.

Very low latency on this unit. I can play my electric through GarageBand’s multi-effects units while listening on my headphones, and I notice almost zero latency. I’m anxious to try it on my amplifier, to see if it would be suitable for live performance.

I would recommend this for anyone who’s thinking about getting into home recording. It’s very well designed, well built, and should suit me well for years.
Written by Sam about -29640 seconds ago.

Review by Sam for M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface
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This is great for plug and play. It didn’t take me long to figure the ins and outs. I found the latency is reduced with the firewire connection compared to USB devices. I haven’t used the mic input yet but the 1/4″ input for guitar and bass I have and the latency is close to nill. I have also used the S/PDIF in with my 2-channel mixer with turntables and it sounds great. Worth the invesment.
Written by A about -30727 seconds ago.

Review by A for M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface
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The M-Audio firewire solo is a really great product for music creation and even for sound output to a stereo. installing the drivers can be tricky though unless you download http://www.m-audio.com/images/global/manuals/FWSolo_UG_EN01.pdf

The PDF explains exaclty what to do.

After I installed everything the M-audio worked flawlessly. I record my own music and also use it for better sound output to my stereo system. The result is clear proffesional recording sound quality.

I recommend it to anyone
Written by Jonathan Chen about -32786 seconds ago.

Review by Jonathan Chen for M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface
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As a newcomer to m-audio products, I surfed the net for good/cheap options so that I wouldn’t spend a lot of cash in a product I hardly even knew. Thus far, the Firewire Solo has put a smile on my face and the bundled software really makes it profitable since you get a all-in-one kinda combo.

The bundled software includes a ProTools demo, a Live 4 demo which can be upgraded to the full version (great!), ProSessions demo and the GT Player Express. This last piece of software is mind blowing even in its limited demo version. The GT provides you with a limited yet versatile array of guitar effects that’ll keep you happy for a longtime.

It took me a while to set this baby up since I didn’t take the time to read the manuals and that gave me a headache since the thing wouldn’t work properly; remember to download the newest drivers from the m-audio website to avoid any kind of trouble. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is mainly because I’m no m-audio connoisseur and couln’t give you an expert’s opinion on the in & outs of this thing, but so far it has worked wonderfully!
Written by A. Ng about -33358 seconds ago.

Review by A. Ng for M-Audio Firewire Solo US35030 Firewire Audio Interface
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I’m very impressed. A lot of features and flexibility packed into a small and inexpensive package.

I installed it on a WinXP(SP2) machine which had Adobe Audition on it, and the M-Audio drivers and software were fully integrated into Audition automatically. Very slick. Made some nice home-studio recordings within an hour of opening the box.

The only startup difficulty was in realizing that there were way more options than I expected for to routing inputs to outputs, so picking the right combination of software settings to simply make a recording from one mono mic seemed a bit more complicated that it needs to be. Took me a whole extra 10 minutes of reading the included PDF-format manual .

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