Focusrite OctoPre Digital Bundle

OctoPre Digital Bundle description:

The OctoPre & ADAT Board Bundle features the Focusrite OctoPre 8-Channel Mic Preamp, OctoPre ADAT ADC digital board and Konig Standard 5m Digital Audio Optical Lead with Moulded Plugs.

Focusrite OctoPre 8-Channel Mic Preamp

Providing eight pristine discrete channels of Focusrite Class A mic pre and compression, OctoPre routes directly to any digital audio workstation via analogue outputs or a new 24-bit, 96kHz A/D converter. There are two digital option boards available for the Octopre, the 24/96 ADAT Board with ADAT optical outputs and the 24/96 AES/SPDIF/ADAT Board with AES and SPDIF on a 9 pin D-sub connector and ADAT optical out. The OctoPre offers the unique qualities associated with the Focusrite name at an affordable price.

Please note: this bundle includes the ADAT only board, so the AES/SPDIF/ADAT board can not be fitted simultaneously.

Each channel also features a revolutionary compressor / limiter circuit, providing a warm-sounding compressor, which morphs into a brick wall limiter to avoid those critical overs, ensuring total control over all eight channels.

The mic pres featured in OctoPre those featured elsewhere in the award winning Focusrite Platinum range. They are a transistor-based Class A design utilising the same full-bandwidth philosophy as the legendary Red and ISA mic pres, ensuring detail and clarity without colouration. The first two 'super channels' also feature phase reverse, as well as TRS jack inputs on the front fascia for quick and easy, DI-free instrument plug-in.

With Class A Focusrite processing and almost all the interface options known to man, the Platinum Octopre is the perfect partner for any Pro Tools system or any other Digital audio workstation, making high quality, multi-channel recording easy. Equally it could be utilised as an instant location recording solution, or as an additional set of mic pres for any analogue or digital console, or hard disk recorder.

The Focusrite OctoPre ADAT ADC digital board.

This card provides digital outputs for all eight OctoPre channels, which operate over the full sample frequency range (44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96 kHz) and can be dithered to 16-, 20-, or 24-bit depths depending upon the destination.

External word clock synchronisation is possible using the rear panel BNC connector. The card features two ADAT-type lightpipe output connectors. For speeds up to 48KHz both connectors transmit all 8 channels simultaneously. However, ADAT-type connectors are bandwidth limited at sample rates above 48 kHz - each audio channel uses two ADAT digital channels to accommodate the increased quantity of data, hence the need for two ADAT connectors to allow 8 channels of conversion at high speed.