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(More customer reviews)When researching this product, I wasn't able to find info on its sampling rate capabilities in the USB interface. Just got mine today and was testing it out in a variety of situations, and found a bit more technical info:
USB audio interface is based on the Texas Instruments PCM2902, capable of 8kHz, 11.025kHz, 16kHz, 22.05kHz, 32kHz, 44.1kHz, and 48kHz sampling rates on input.
It worked great for recording a variety of instruments in my tests. Nice and quiet. The limiter can be a bit noticeable if you push it too hard at least on acoustic guitar. Plugging in an electric and pushing the gain up a bit gives a tube distortion that is usable. Just don't run the gain too high or you'll hear a nasty surprise.
Tried out a Rode NT1-A and an MXL 990, both phantom powered condenser mics. Results were clean and smooth, with a nice round, natural tone.
Then I used it as a DI box for live sound. The gain structure of this thing is crazy. Where my guitar with a Martin Gold Plus thinline pickup had a lower gain on the board, this box was putting out incredibly high gain, and the signal needed to be seriously toned down at all the mixers before using it. Once that was done, it produced a nice warm tone to my normally flat sounding jumbo acoustic, making it sound more like the instrument it is.
This toy is definitely a keeper, especially for the money!
Note to any do-it-yourself'ers out there. The interface only lets you record... HOWEVER... the PCM2902 USB interface has inputs AND outputs. It may be possible to modify to get a set of outputs as well. Its also interesting to note that the PCM2902 is stereo. You do the math for the total ins and outs. Anyhow, I probably won't be cutting into mine for experimentation quite yet.
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