Other than that, there are just two six-pin Firewire sockets and a power input, so you can plug in the supplied adaptor if your computer only has a four-pin Firewire socket and thus doesn't provide power. Other than an LED that shows you the unit is alive and has digital sync, that's it for the front panel! Around the back are unbalanced RCA phonos for inputs 3/4 and for the stereo output, but there's also a stereo mini-jack (3.5mm) output and a further 3.5mm headphone socket. The front of the unit houses the mic inputs plus two high-impedance instrument jacks for the direct connection of guitars or basses the microphone and instrument preamplifiers draw on PreSonus's analogue design expertise and are claimed to offer low noise and low distortion.

The Inspire 1394 can be powered from an external adaptor or parasitically from a six-pin Firewire socket, and works with all the common recording software.Ĭosmetically, the burger-box-sized Inspire 1394 exudes desirability with its chunky but clean lines. One distinct advantage of this approach is that the control setup can be saved so that when you return to a project, you can be sure all the settings are exactly as they were first time around.

That's become PreSonus have managed to add more features while keeping the hardware manufacturing costs down by moving all the necessary controls to a software control panel. Perhaps the most unusual thing about the Inspire 1394, though, is that while it has all the usual connections, it has no visible controls. The Inspire 1394 works under Mac OS X or Windows XP, and as current versions of those operating systems support multiple audio interfaces, you can use up to four Inspire 1394s at the same time to provide more I/O where needed. Two of those inputs are balanced mic preamps with switchable phantom power and peak limiting, while the other two are on RCA phonos that can be switched from line level to RIAA phono for direct connection of a record deck. The PreSonus Inspire 1394 is a compact Firewire recording interface that works at up to 24-bit/96kHz and provides four simultaneous inputs with a stereo output. With their latest Firewire interface, PreSonus promise high audio quality at an affordable price, thanks to the use of software controls instead of physical knobs.

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