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Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface, for Producers, Musicians, Bands, Content Creators — High-Fidelity, Studio Quality Recording, and All the Software You Need to Record

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Style: 8i6 (2 Mic Pres)


Pattern Name: Interface


Features

  • Pro performance with two of the finest mic preamps Sound better than ever with 8i6s two mic preamps. Achieve a brighter and a more open recording thanks to the best performing mic preamps the Scarlett range has ever seen. A switchable Air mode will add extra clarity to your acoustic instruments when recording with your Scarlett 8i6.
  • All the inputs youll need for your gear Six balanced line inputs are available for connecting synths or other line level audio that you use in your music, so you can utilise your full set-up with Scarlett. Four balanced outputs can be used for monitoring and effects sends to make life easier. With super low latency and class-leading drivers, you will have no problems capturing audio in the moment that is well-polished and true to the original source.
  • Crystal clear playback in studio quality Get professional sounding recordings with Scarletts high-performance converters which enable you to record and mix at up to 24-bit/192kHz. Your recordings will retain all of their sonic qualities so that you can hear all the details in your track on playback.
  • Get the perfect guitar take Theres no need to sacrifice your tone with two high-headroom instrument inputs to plug in your guitar or bass. Capture your sound with clarity and have your audio stand out in all its glory without any unwanted clipping or distortion thanks to our Gain Halos.
  • All the tools you need to start recording right, now In the form of Hitmaker Expansion, weve partnered with our favourite industry partners to provide you with plenty of sound content and software so that you can create and record music right away. Create powerful guitars, luscious keys and huge drums. Get studio quality vocals with the aid of Antares Auto-Tune Access that allows natural sounding, near-real-time pitch adjustment for getting the best vocal takes.
  • Enjoy three years of warranty - Wherever you happen to be in the world, you can rely on a three-year warranty if any Focusrite hardware needs repairing or replacing due to a manufacturing fault.

Description

The Scarlett 8i6 is the compact studio solution you’ve been looking for, allowing you to keep all your hardware plugged in and ready to go. With improved A-D and D-A conversion, your recordings and playback will sound clear and pronounced up to 24-bit/192kHz and two independent high-fidelity headphone outputs with dedicated volume control enable flexible monitoring during recording and mixing. 8i6 provides two of Focusrite's best-ever-performing 3rd Gen Scarlett mic preamps with optional Air setting to reproduce the Air effect of their original ISA mic preamp, giving your vocal or acoustic recordings a brighter, more open sound. Record guitars or bass via the two high-headroom instrument inputs without any clipping or unwanted distortion. And get creative using the six flexible line inputs – two on the front with gain control, and four fixed-line on the back allowing you to record up to six mono or three stereo line-level sources such as synthesizers or drum machines. A pair of virtual loopback inputs allow you to capture a stereo feed of any combination of hardware input and software playback channels. Scarlett 8i6 is designed to stand up to days on the road and connects straight to your Mac or PC via USB cable. Your Scarlett 8i6 comes with the Hitmaker Expansion, an unbeatable range of tried-and-tested studio tools from some of the biggest names in the business. The Hitmaker Expansion includes: Antares Auto-Tune Access, Relab LX480 Essentials, Softube Marshall® Silver Jubilee 2555, XLN Audio Addictive Keys, XLN Audio Addictive Drums 2, Three Month Splice Sounds Subscription, Brainworx bx_console Focusrite SC, and Focusrite Red Plug-In Suite. Also included are Ableton Live Lite, and a Three Month Avid Pro Tools Artist subscription with their complete plugin bundle; all upon purchase, registration, and download. Interested in what headphones are compatible with Scarlett? Search 'Headphones' on the Focusrite help center for more information.


Brand: Focusrite


Compatible Devices: Personal Computer


Supported Software: All the Software


Connectivity Technology: USB Type-C


Number of Channels: 4


Item Weight: 1 pounds


Product Dimensions: 5.89 x 8.27 x 1.87 inches


Country of Origin: China


Item model number: AMS-SCARLETT-8I6-3G


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: June 25, 2019


Compatible Devices: Personal Computer


Hardware Interface: USB


Supported Software: All the Software


Operating System: Mac


Voltage: 240 Volts


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    • Very responsive customer service. Confusing software.
Style: 18i20 (8 Mic Pres) Pattern Name: Interface
Having owned a Focusrite FireWire SaffirePro40, I thought this would be the best and closest replacement for my new PC. It’s a paperless delivery. Unlike the old days, there is no no manual or detailed “QuickStart” guide in the box. Just an imprint on the inside of the box telling the user where to go to download software and manual details. I have to say, even having been in the music business for over 30 years, I find this Mix Control software/GUI is not very logical, (imho). It’s like fumbling with a rubik’s cube trying to figure out how to route and set up for different sessions. To my eye, it feels like the tail wagging the dog. Instead of starting at the source and ending with the output, it’s got you working your way backwards from the output. If there were a wish-list I would love for them to set up this control software logically like a DAW: set up the chain from source to output. After some frustration (not hearing any sound) and a few calls to customer service it seems, unlike the previous interface, this one requires being turned on and off after choosing different settings. Especially where digital inputs are concerned. Plugging in a light-pipe output for a keyboard was a real puzzle. And it shouldn’t be. I wish they made this more clear in their manual.this too required trial and error setting and continual on/off resets of the interface. Once it’s running correctly, the sound is very clean. Surprising since it’s all going out to a usb2 input on the computer. So, confusing GUI mix control software aside, I am sticking with Focusrite because of their customer service. They really have a great team. They are patient and helpful and even follow up. That, right there, earns them five stars in my book. You can have the greatest hardware in the world, but if you have crappy customer service, or difficult-to-reach customer service, the product is worthless to me. This interface requires a bit of learning, and I’m certain I’ll get used to it, but I feel there is available support to get me through the bumps in the road. So, five stars. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023 by Steplander
    • Awful setup experience, very demanding hardware, had to find my own fix, limited capabilities
Style: 18i20 (8 Mic Pres) Pattern Name: Interface
TLDR: 1. If you have poppy clicky sound that may be due to latency, a USB add on card may be the solution. This was determined after I ran latency tests that showed the USB driver had a 5ms latency, and was resolved with this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071P5C6CS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 2. If you want to use this to break out windows apps to use different inputs and outputs, you are out of luck for now, windows will only default to the first pair of inputs and outputs (It doesn't break out multiple pairs to multiple windows audio devices, like other interfaces such as those made by m-audio or berringer do) 3. After a few months of playing around with this....focusrite support suggested software solutions to compensate for their lack of basic functionality that other similar devices offer, but were of no help actually implementing their suggestion, which in my hours of playing around I found to be inadequate. I cannot tell you how many times this box has blue screened my computer. I've found that even the simplest of use, using the 4 line inputs on the back of the box, has been inadequate as well, as the level on these inputs is way too low for anything I hook up, and there are NO LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS AT ALL FOR THEM!!!! That's pretty basic stuff, setting levels....yet focusrite seemed to have missed out on the memo that inputs need level adjustments! With a complete lack of basic features, a very unstable software, and a device that falls short in every purpose I bought it for, and a software that crashes my machine time and time again, this has to go back, and I cannot in good conscience recommend this device in any way. I am baffled this gets any good reviews at all, I am a professional and have worked with many devices, and this is by far the worst piece of audio equipment I have ever used! Detailed story below: If you are reading this, be sure to check back here, as I will be updating this review as my experience unfolds. I have used many soundcards over the years as part of my hobby of internet streaming. My needs may be unique. But, to boil it down, I need to have 6 inputs and 6 outputs, 3 stereo pairs, so that I can have a setup between my computer and mixing board, so that I have a set of inputs and ouputs for my computer sounds and stereo mix, a set of inputs and outputs for skype to take calls and send a submix that doesn't include skype, and a set of inputs and outputs for teamtalk for co-hosts and to have a submix that doesn't include teamtalk. My setup up until this point used an m-audio delta 1010lt card. This card is automatically setup as multiple stereo pairs in the sound devices. This is extremely convenient, as it allows for selecting a pair of inputs or outputs from various windows apps rather easily. Simple, basic.....things that are desirable when designing hardware and software. This focusrite box, shows up as a single device in the sound devices. Out of the box, I basically have a device with 20 inputs and 18 outputs, of which I can only use 2 at a time, which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. There may be a way to configure this to setup....but now I have to chase down that solution and do complex programming, whereas past products would just do it right out of the box. But, that's only my secondary problem. Before I can ever bother dealing with the hours of banging my head against that brick wall, there's the first problem of, ALL SOUND THAT COMES FROM MY COMPUTER IS COMPLETELY POPPY AND CLICKY! For the record, I am running the latest version of Windows 10 64 bit OS. Everything is up to date and current, windows updates are current, drivers are all current, BIOS is current, power options are all set to recommended settings based on focusrite's recommendations (I spent hours reading up and trying to trace down this issue....which, even if I did manage to get it to work, a device that out of the box requires hours of troubleshooting just to get basic functions working doesn't bode well). My machine was built to be an absolute powerhouse. 8 core AMD processor, 32GB of RAM. I have a spare SSD that I put a clean Windows 10 install on, with all updates, and did another clean install of the focusrite software, and found the problems persist. It was as simple as nothing connected to the box except a pair of headphones, and still, any sound from windows came out poppy and clicky. If my machine isn't enough power for this box, then few machines are. At this point, I have to say, this device will never be a 5 star device. If, and that's a big if, focusrite support (when they eventually get around to responding to me.....) manage to resolve this issue and get this device working, that out of the box a brand new device, that costs as much as this device does, won't do the most basic of functions and creates hours of nightmares and headaches, nothing will undo that nightmare. If focusrite does indeed have a winner with this product once something is setup properly (big IF there), then focusrite needs to do some serious research and soul searching into figuring out how to build a device that can consistently and simply just WORK when plugged in! Without that, you're just setting yourself up to look like a bunch of incompetent fools that make crap! Updates will be posted here after consulting with focusrite support, if they ever get back to me...... ....Their support didn't call me after 24 hours. I called them and waited on a short hold. Getting them on the phone isn't hard, but not responding to a ticket for 24 hours is hardly professional. Before calling support, I did a little searching and troubleshooting, and found a latency test to run, and it was reporting issues suggesting there was throttling on my PC. I never did find anything that was setting any throttling, I believe it was a false diagnosis, but I suppose it's fair that a software will make an educated guess based on the data it has. The tech I spoke with first suggested that my being on the latest version of Windows 10 is my problem, that they've been having problems with people who upgraded to 1903. He tried to get me on an older driver, but they didn't have an older driver available that was compatible with the 3rd gen 18i20. At some point I mentioned the latency test results, but he was focused on the Windows 10, and basically suggested he was going to forward the information to the development team, and that I'd just have to wait for them to get an updated driver that resolves the issue. I hung up, figuring I would try to roll back the Windows 10 update, or revert to a previous backup, or find an older installer, to prove or disprove the theory. But the more I thought about it, the more it wouldn't make sense for everyone on the latest Windows 10 update, which has been out for months, to be having noise. So I called back to push for more troubleshooting. Upon calling back, the tech claimed it's only certain hardware that has the issue with Windows 10 1903. I mentioned I built this machine myself, and would be happy to go over any piece of hardware in my machine with him. He tried to imply that was the problem, saying something to the effect of, we make our devices to work on normal computer. I called that out as pure bs, and we moved on. I mentioned the latency test, he had me send him results of the tests, and he noticed the usbport.sys driver had a rather high latency, and suggested updating drivers from the manufacturer. Unfortunately, I bought my motherboard in 2015, and they must have end of life it the next day, as the most up to date drivers for usb and chipsets for my motherboard were from 2014, and for up to Windows 8.1. I had whatever drivers automatically are applied with a Windows 10 installation, it seems they are microsoft drivers, probably something generic. It's worked fine with all my other usb devices (even the dreaded elgato capture device). At this point, the call center was closing, and I'm not that guy that will keep someone past their shift, so we said our goodnights and hung up, so we could each work with what info we captured and resume the next day. As I thought about it, I thought to myself.....self.....if it's usb drivers that are the problem, and I can't get better drivers for my motherboard....what about that usb 3.0 add on card you recently bought for another machine? So, I borrowed it, threw it in my tower, plugged the focusrite box into that, and voila.....beautiful pop free sound. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071P5C6CS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 So, that did the trick for the latency problems. However, we were unable to resolve the issue of my needing to route multiple windows apps to different inputs and outputs. Focusrite really has a very narrow view of what an audio interface can be. If you are buying this strictly for multitrack recording in such software that will use the ASIO drivers, great, you're set. If you want to use it for streaming or for purposes to use multiple inputs and outputs with various apps, like skype, teamtalk, to route submixes in and out to each, you are out of luck. Focusrite literally built a box, with 18 inputs and 20 outputs, that will only let you use 2 of each (1 stereo pair of each) as windows sound devices. Which means, for my purposes, it's worthless. Such a disappointing end. I'm back where I started, on an m-audio delta 1010lt with way outdated drivers that is a ticking time bomb, with no suitable replacement in sight. Focusrite shows promise. Great hardware, a proven track record of support as far as continuing to develop software for older devices.....but severely lacking in software capabilities. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2019 by Jonathan Gatarz
    • Upgraded from a 10 year old UX2
Style: 18i8 (4 Mic Pres) Pattern Name: Interface
My Line 6 UX2 was fun in its time, but it was long past time for an upgrade. This Focusrite box is just about perfect for what I do. It has independent power instead of drawing from the USB port. It has 4 monitor outputs instead of the 2 I had. It has 2 headphone jacks as well so you can have another set of ears in the mix if you want. This box is also capable of supernatural sampling rates up to 192 khz. If we get bionic hearing someday we might notice it. Has a metal case instead of plastic. Setup could be accomplished by a 5 year old in about a half hour. If you don't hear your headphones, reinstall the drivers, restart, and make sure you click the follow up prompt when you login to finish. Then everything is controlled in the Focusrite Control software. The only thing that sucks about the software is you can't use the sliders with the mouse, you have to physically turn the volume knobs. The software just provides a graphic to show the levels. Not a big deal, but sometimes a person's interface is buried so you have to reach. Would be nice of the sliders controlled the knobs as well, but that is a motion controller that would have to be soldered into the next model with code written for it. Might not be able to keep it under 500 bucks that way. The 18i8 is meant to make music or podcast, but it is a great base for an entertainment system. Movies with quad monitors where you can control the pans to get it dialed in perfectly to your location in the room. Yeah, might want to rewatch star wars after setting something like that up. PvP gaming is insane because you can setup the quads to where you can hear footsteps from any direction, like you are actually getting jumped. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2023 by Tek Nickel

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