Used Gear Spotlight - Motu 896 MK3 Pristine Recording
USED - Motu 896 MK3 - $699.99 The MOTU 896 MK3 is one of MOTU's best Firewire recording interfaces. It features 24Bit 192KHz high end converters that are very transparent, as well as 8 channels of clean sounding mic preamps. We also have the 896 MK3 available NEW for $995.00. Just give us a call for the details. We can work even better deals if you want to trade in your old gear towards a new unit. The 896mk3 is equally well-suited for studio and stage, with or without a computer. As an interface or standalone mixer, the 896mk3 provides 28 separate inputs and 32 separate outputs, including dedicated main outs on XLRs and two front panel headphone outs. On-board digital mixer with effects for monitoring and live mixing Connect all of your studio gear, including microphones, guitars, synths, keyboards, drum machines and even effects processors. Record, monitor, route and process all of these live inputs using the professional on-board CueMix FX digital mixer – with no latency and no processor strain on your computer. Apply hardware DSP-driven effects processing to inputs, outputs, and busses independent of your host computer. Add Classic Reverb with lengths up to 60 seconds. Further sculpt your sound with 7-band parametric EQ featuring filter types carefully modeled after British analog console EQs. Choose between two forms of compression: a conventional compressor and the Leveler, an accurate model of the legendary LA-2A™ optical compressor that provides vintage, musical automatic gain control. When recording from the analog inputs, the 896mk3’s signal overload protection gives you an extra 12 dB of headroom above zero with no clipping or harsh artifacts.