With Pro Tools 9 opening the door for 3rd party recording interfaces, there are a lot more options opening up for home, studio, and portable rigs. Mackie‘s Onyx firewire interfaces are among the products now compatible with the latest version of Pro Tools – here are some of their standout features: The Blackjack ($149 street) is a 2 input / 2 output interface with a rugged metal casing that’s designed to sit on your desktop. It connects and is powered by USB, and its Mic/Line/Hi-Z inputs feed Onyx mic pre’s with 60dB of gain and switchable phantom power. One of the most handy features of the Blackjack is it’s zero-latency hardware monitoring. The ‘To Mon’ knob feeds whatever you’re recording to the monitor and headphone outputs, allowing you to listen without the delay that occurs from sending the signal through your DAW. This input monitor send can also be switched from mono to stereo – where inputs 1 and 2 are panned hard left and right. The Blackjack’s high quality Cirrus Logic converters provide audio resolution at 24bits and either 44.1 or 48kHz, making it a suitable choice for any one or two-mic application including overdubs, podcasts, or field recording. The high quality […]... Click on the title for more