Delicious Audio Review: PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL
Our friends at Delicious Audio recently reviewed the PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL audio/MIDI interface. Read some of the review below, and visit Delicious Audio for the complete review!
My initial experience with the Studio One DAW by PreSonus was nothing short of astounding (see here for my full review) to the point where I’d finally abandoned Pro Tools for good! In the years since that first use of Studio One tickled my ribs, my analog/digital studio has moved from NYC to Woodstock to now San Francisco. Space has become more of a premium, which means that the AudioBox 22VSL could not have arrived at a better time.
This year’s big recordings of my work happened at two major studios: one with Century Club, my full-on rock trio, with Steve Albini engineering at Electrical Audio in Chicago, and two more intimate, acoustic affairs recorded with Jacob Winik at Tiny Telephone, the amazing tape studio run by John Vanderslice. In recording in such a traditional fashion, performances were captured as they occurred in one take. No computer screens were present.
PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL
Of course, being the OCD type when it comes to mixing, I left Tiny Telephone with finished mixes of the solo release only to feel I’d left a few things out, arrangement-wise. The question became do I add some subtle flourishes at my home studio, and if so, how?
The AudioBox 22VSL made the decision easy. Recording just two tracks at a time meant tucking in some stereo takes of Rhodes, keyboards, and percussion would be a snap. The preamps did not color the sounds at all, a concern after recording with amazing mics and pres with Jacob at TT.
Combined with the new real-time effects of the StudioLive, it allowed me to add effects in real time even as I was laying down takes. While nothing sounded quite like the echo chamber at Tiny Telephone, the reverbs included out of the box were extremely complementary and unobtrusive.
Click thru to Delicious Audio for the rest of this review, by Greg Hoy.
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