PRESONUS firestudio tube

The front panel of the FireStudio Tube is loaded with two “SuperChannels” featuring class A vacuum tube microphone and instrument preamplifiers along with full-featured analog limiters.

The tube preamplifiers use a high gain, military grade 12AX7 tube for maximum gain, low noise and high headroom. Neutrik combo connectors allow both XLR microphone input and hi-Z instrument input. Preamp controls include preamp gain and tube drive to achieve a wide range of sounds from smooth, clean and clear, to warm tube saturation. An 80Hz high pass filter is also located on the front panel to remove room rumble and unwanted lows

The FireStudio Tube’s Limiter features a VCA-based ultra fast Dual Domain RMS and peak detection circuit used in the award-winning DigiMax 96K, delivering the most musical limiter available. The Analog Dual Domain Limiters in the SuperChannel are located after the preamplifier and BEFORE the analog to digital converter in the signal path. This allows you to maintain high resolution recording levels without clipping, allowing you to keep the vocals up front, the kick and snare consistent, and the bass solid and punchy. Controls for the limiter include Threshold and Gain make-up as well as a Limiter in/out button. Fast-acting LED metering on the front panel displays preamp input and limiter gain reduction for the two tube SuperChannels

The FireStudio Tube delivers all the analog I/O needed for professional recording sessions, featuring sixteen analog inputs including two tube SuperChannels on the front panel, eight class A award-winning XMAX microphone preamplifiers and six balanced TRS line inputs on the rear panel. Outputs include six balanced TRS outputs and PreSonus’ signature ultra loud and clear headphone output that “goes to 11”. MIDI I/O is also included on the rear panel for MIDI instruments, keyboards and controllers. The FireStudio Tube’s combination of microphone, instrument and line inputs is perfect for a band to simultaneously record drums, bass, guitar, vocals and keyboards without any additional preamplifiers

The FireStudio Tube includes PreSonus’ 16x8 FireControl mixer/router delivering up to four zero-latency custom monitor mixes easily and quickly

The FireStudio Tube includes eight custom-designed high-voltage, discrete, XMAX Class A microphone preamplifiers for all types of microphones. Many other companies offering recording interfaces add the cheapest possible microphone preamplifier as an afterthought to the interface. PreSonus knows that the preamplifier is a key component in the sonic quality of a recording. The job of a microphone preamplifier is to boost microphone level signals to line level so that the signal can be converted from analog to digital. This mic to line boost is generally a preamplification of over 400 times the voltage of the original mic level signal. This preamplification stage is one of the most important stages that the signal will go through before converted to digital, and is why a high performance preamplifier is important to achieving great results. A cheap "off the shelf op-amp" type mic preamp that is found in most interfaces translates into thin, noisy and harsh results

The FireStudio Tube touts A/D/A converters with a dynamic range of over 114dB for unbelievable clarity as well as synchronization using patented JetPLL™ jitter reduction technology. JetPLL™ incorporates noise shaping to virtually remove all audio band jitter. JetPLL™ ensures the highest converter performance possible, resulting in better stereo separation and clearer more transparent audio. JetPLL™ delivers ultra-fast locking to any digital format through a wide range of frequencies and is extremely robust and tolerant of wide variations in clock frequencies. JetPLL™ ensures near perfect clock performance when networking audio devices, thus creating the most stable and robust synchronization to the computer

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- Cubase LE 4 Demystified by PreSonus - DVD tutorial video

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- Ampeg SVX UNO LE - Virtal Bass Amplifier

- EZ Drummer Lite - Virtual drummer plug-in

- Track Plug LE - EQ and Compressor plug-in

- MasterVerb LE - Reverb plug-in

- PreSonus EyeQ - EQ and spectral analysis plug-in

- Sony Acid Express - Loop creation software

- Martin Atkins Beat Fetish - Loop library

- Pluggo Jr. – Average Injector, Chamberverb, Feedback Network, Filter Taps, Generic Effect, HF Ring Mod, Jet, Limi, Nebula, Resonation, Resosweep, Spectral Filter.

- Discrete Drums Sampler– over 1GB of drum loops and drum samples

- Twiddly bits – 100 MIDI drum loops created by real drummers

- 24-bit/96K firewire (IEEE 1394)

- 16 inputs/6 outputs simultaneous record/playback channels

- 2 SuperChannels (tube microphone/instrument preamplifier with analog limiter)

- 8 XMAX microphone preamplifiers

- 2 PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers

- 6 balanced TRS line outputs

- MIDI Input/Output

- 16x8 FireControl DSP mixer/router

- JetPLL Sync for improved imaging and clarity

- High performance A/D/A converters (114 dynamic range)

- Windows and Macintosh compatible

- ProPak Software Suite including Cubase LE 4 audio production software

[Windows]
- OS: Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista
- CPU/Clock: or Athlon 900MHz (1.5 GHz or higher recommended)
- Memory(RAM): 1 GB (more recommended)

[Macintosh]
- OS: MacOS X 10.4.x or later (10.5 supported with driver update)
- CPU/Clock: PowerPC G4/Dual 1 GHZ or faster, all Intel-based Mac models.
- Memory(RAM): 1 GB (more recommended)

[Windows and Macintosh Systems]
- IEEE 1394 FireWire 400 Port
- Internet connection
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internal or external 7200RPM storage drive is highly recommended

Note that the speed of your processor, amount of RAM and size and speed of your hard drive will greatly affect the overall performance of your recording system. Also, a more powerful system (faster processor with more RAM) will allow for lower latency (signal delay) that you might experience while monitoring audio or MIDI signals.

Monitor resolution for both PC and Macintosh should be no lower than 1024x768 pixels.