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PreSonus FireBox 6X10 Firewire Recording Interface | 
 enlarge | Brand: PreSonus
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $359.95
Buy New: $247.50
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 271
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 8 x 4.5
The Firebox is a powerful 24-bit/96kHz FireWire recording interface that fits in the palm of your hand. It has 2 mic/instrument preamps with 48V phantom power conveniently located on the front panel. On the back you'll find 2 balanced TRS line inputs, 6 balanced TRS analog outs, MIDI I/O, and S/PDIF I/O. This Firebox allows recording and playback of 6 inputs and 8 outputs simultaneously. It also has a stereo headphone output and the main volume control on the front panel.The Firebox is compatible with both Windows XP and Mac OS X and comes with Steinberg's Cubase LE 48-track, 24-bit/96K recording software. It's also compatible with many popular ASIO/WDM and Core Audio based applications including Sonar, Cubase, Nuendo, Logic, Digital Performer, Premier, and many others.
Warranty: One year from date of purchase from authorized dealer to original purchaser only.
MPN: 900-FIREBOX
Model: FBOX
UPC: 673454000553
EAN: 0673454000553
Release Date: May 21, 2008
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| Features:
| • | 24-bit recording up to 96K sample rate | | • | 2 Class-A mic/instrument preamps | | • | S/PDIF and MIDI I/O | | • | Cubase LE4 48-track recording software | | • | Completely portable professional recording solution |
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Product Description
The FIREBOX is the most powerful 24-bit/96k FireWire recording interface that fits in the palm of your hand. The FIREBOX is a complete 24-Bit/96k personal recording studio combining two high quality PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers, 24-Bit/96k sample rate and Steinberg's Cubase LE 48-track recording software. The FIREBOX is the perfect hardware and software combination for a powerful professional-quality and compact computer-based studio. Hardware The FIREBOX has the highest record/playback track count of its size with the ability to record six inputs and playback through ten outputs simultaneously all at pro-quality 24-bit/96kHz. Two ultra-low noise high-headroom microphone/instrument preamplifiers with 48V phantom power are on the front panel for quickly and easily connecting your favorite microphones and instruments. The FIREBOX also includes a high quality stereo headphone output with volume adjustment on the front panel. The headphone output has its own two-channel driver stream which can be used as a separate stereo bus or two-channel output giving you the ability to send a ?cue? mix to the headphone output and a main mix to the main output. Two additional balanced TRS line inputs are located on the rear of the FIREBOX along with six balanced TRS line outputs. Two channels of S/PDIF input/output and MIDI input/output are also included via DB9 breakout cable. A software router/mixer is also included for further flexibility and power. The 1/3U-wide me...
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Great Product! December 12, 2008
Thomas E. Miller (Mattingly, St. Kitts)
I have two Firepods, and am familiar with the quality/sound. You can do a ton of stuff with this little box. I currently use it with my MacBook Pro to mix albums will being away from home. Anyways, the pre-amps and converters are the best in this price range. I use a a pro version of Cubase 4, but the version that comes with it will not let you down, and you can record quality tracks! It's the same as Cubase 4, but stripped down to the basics. That's all you need at the end of the day anyways.
a+ seller!!!! November 9, 2008
Gregory Zimerman (New York, NY)
Ordered, shipped, and delivered flawlessly. Item came quickly and accurately fit product description. Great seller!
 Firebox not for everyone November 1, 2008
David Pecunies (albany maine)
Now that I have been able to run the Presonus Firebox through the paces I am starting to not like it. Everything I have done with it so far is all VO work so none of this review is based on instrument recording. There are a few of us that have done VO work through the Firebox and I would rate all of our voices as mid to high on volume. Thus I have not run into any problems with the unit until I recorded someone with a softer voice. I had everything cranked and it still was not enough. Now I have a noisy VO that needs to be redone. Yes, I have spent many, many hours trying to repair the audio and bring the noise down but have come to the conclusion that it will take less time to re-record than to continue to beat the dead horse.
I will not put all the blame on Presonus, the unit comes with a software booster that adds about 12dB and if I crank the levels on the Firebox and record into Soundtrack it becomes useable for a softer voice but still not great. The software gain does ad noise so it is not a great solution.
Since running into this problem I have read a number of other folks out there with similar issues. So if you have a medium to loud voice the Firebox has a very nice warm sound for the money. If you might record someone with a softer voice I would look elsewhere.
 didn't work well with my PC July 25, 2008
Ryan Joaquim
I got this with a set of studio speakers. It did not cooperate with windows and was not very easy to set up. Setting it up to run with Reason was another story and I was not successful.
I have seen live DJ's use this with Apple laptops and they say it works great with it's Zero-latency feature.
Some digital noise, sensitive to setup June 21, 2008
T. J. Barnes (Los Gatos, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had my Firebox for a while, using it with Windows XP and Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) on both an iBook and a Mac Pro (Intel). It's pretty easy to set up and use, and all the functions seem to work fine.
My issue has been with digital noise (high screeching noise, low volume) that seems to be related to the firewire cable. If I connect through my monitor (the Mac's monitor has Firewire and USB connectors that come up through the video cable) the level of that noise makes the card unusable. When I use a single cable, connected to the front of the Mac Pro, the noise is still present, but manageable (I turn up the Firebox and turn down my amp). I have updated the drivers and firmware, but no improvement has been seen.
I use this as my main sound card for the Mac Pro, and for recording with GarageBand and Cubase, along with a synthesizer connected via S/PDIF, and it all seems to work fine except that the S/PDIF interface needs to get its synchronization from the device that's connected (synthesizer in my case), and if you turn off the synthesizer, the Firebox stops working. Of course you can work around this by using an analog connection between the synthesizer and the Firebox, but then you have two additional conversions in the process (digital synth -> synth D/A convertor -> Firebox A/D convertor) with the additional possibility of analog cable noise.
My overall satisfaction with the product is reduced significantly by the digital noise problem, however, and I'll be looking for a higher quality product next time.
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