What’s more, each input features a combo jack, giving you inputs for your mics, instruments, and line-level sources. And housed in a handy all-metal half-rack chassis, the MOTU 4pre is ready to go where the music takes you.Do you prefer a handy desktop interface, or do you need an on-the-go solution for mobile recording? Either way, the MOTU 4pre will easily accommodate your needs. High-speed USB 2.0 lets you connect the 4pre to any computer out there, and if your laptop has FireWire onboard, then you can even bus power it for convenient mobile recording. What’s more, the 4pre comes with a complete rackmounting kit, so you can mount it in a half-width rack, or link it with another half-rack-size MOTU piece and rackmount them together.

FEATURES

• A great audio interface for desktop and laptop recording rigs
• Compact and rugged all-metal chassis fits easily in a backpack, but comes with the hardware you need to rackmount it
• 4 x ultra-clean and highly transparent microphone preamplifiers let you record without coloring your sound
• All analog inputs are on combo jacks, providing you with the connectivity you need to record 2 x balanced line-level sources as well as 2 x hi-Z instrument sources
• 2 x channels of S/PDIF I/O
• 2 x independent headphone outputs make collaboration easy
• Independent hands-on mixer lets you use the 4pre even without your computer
• Connects via USB 2.0 or FireWire 400
• CueMix software lets you control four mixes and 8 buses with simple tabbed interface (includes tuner, oscilloscope, real-time FFT, spectrogram waterfall, X-Y phase analysis, and other tools)
• Functions as a stand-alone 4-channel mixer, even without a computer