Focusrite Clarett 8PreX | Demo and Review w/ Orlando Drummer
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2017
- This is a demo and review of Focusrite's Clarett 8PreX. This audio interface is ideal for any drummer who's hunting for quality sounds that doesn't require taking out a second mortgage. The sounds we got out of this interface are as clean as they come, and the AIR feature certainly can play a major role in the drum sound the Clarett can produce. Enjoy, and feel free to comment with any questions! - Adam
Online Drum School - 7 Day Free Trial
OrlandoDrummer.com/
Drumless Loop Library:
OrlandoDrummer.com/Products
Tags: Drum drums gear audio focusrite interface drummer input clarett 8prex 8 pre x sound demo review unboxing sample snare hats mics akg c414 shure sennheiser mix mixing mics micing miced listen hear
Awesome video! This interface is on my wish list and it's fantastic to see a demo from a drummer's perspective. Very well done - keep up the great work!
No matter what the topic is; this review is one of the best i have ever watched on youtube
Lovely. It was great to hear your drum work on the final mix, great sounds and expressive playing.
You deserve a Million Subscribers... truly impressed.....and I get impressed once a decade....
i've been shopping around for this thing for forever. now i have to buy it
Thanks to your video it helped me for the right decision. I am buying this cutie next week, cheers mate!
Great video! I just bought the Clarett+ 8pre and the Octapre to make 16 channels in, and I'm really loving it.
Great playing and sound BTW!
good review i have the Clarett 8pre i really like it still learing thanks for the demo liked and subscribed
nicely done!! I just bought a couple of clarett preamps...waiting for them to arrive.
I love the sound and looks of these fantastic Meinl cymbals!
Thanks! Nice and clear!
Thanks Adam. Nice!
I would love to see some kind of 'recording tutorial' from you. I really dig your sound and of course your playing! Great job! Keep it up man!!
sounds godly. 🥁
Subscribed. Great video dude.
Drooling bro.... what a groove
That was very good !
cool sound!
Nice video dude!
Yeah thanks for this @Adam Tuminaro - I'm loving this demo you did!! I have its little brother - the Focusrite Clarett 8Pre. It has slightly less bells and whistles, but still has the same great 8 mic pre-amps with the AIR feature. I'm also using the slightly cut down AKG C214 mics as my overheads. It's a fantastic setup if you don't have quite as much budget to play with, and could not be more pleased with it. It works really reliably with a Mac and Logic and I'm still using my old 2011 MacBook Pro with it. I've not thought of trying the AIR feature on cymbals/overheads - so that's a great idea!! - I only wish I had the luxury of using a C414 as a hi-hat mic though!! (Maybe one day...!)
Great vid. With those dark cymbals they could use the fast transient response of a small diaphragm condenser to brighten them and get more air if that's what you're after. Those large diaphragms are slow.. . But it sounds great anyway
Love IT
The air feature definitely added to the cymbals especially the ride but I’m not so sure it did much for the snare
nice one mate!
Killer Drummimg Skillz
The BEST Focusrite comparison video ever! Quick question bro.... what do you think about the single-space Focusrite 8pre? I'm thinking about getting it.
I've been using this interface since it first came out. Like it a lot,
he is so dope on thoes drumss
That floor tom head is wild! So different! The mounted tom has excellent body and a round tone for it's size, looking like a 10". I can only imagine that the floor tom had rediculous depth. It's so dry sounding following the mounted tho. Crazy. Great playing btw! I went with the 18i20 and OctoDynamic, kinda wish I had got the Clarrett because now they're too close together to justify it as an upgrade. 828 when the time comes lol screw it
Nice video! Got myself the 8pre and I absolutely love it! Did the engineer gate your ambience or overhead mic? Sound seems to disappear all of a sudden at 7:24. Other than that, great mix indeed. The only thing, I wouldn't pan the room/overhead mics that wide tho. Cheers 🔥
Is thing basically an updated Liquid56? Kind of very similar layout, although the Liquid56 had a pair of slightly cut down Liquid channel pres and then 6 regular pres. I'm kind of looking to upgrade, but I really do love the Liquid56, but yeah firewire is a massive pain in the arse.
Honestly you did not HAVE to upgrade. But I can see why you did. Great video!
I forgot about the interface by the end. Just listening to the drumming.
Hi Adam ! are your 10db pads ON on your c414s? Thank you!!
Hi, sorry you could do some video on how to mix the battery, what program and chains you use to process them, thank you very much!
daniel bustamante que onda Daniel ? Cuando dices battery te refieres a la batería ? En inglés no le llaman batería , se llama drums no estoy tratando de hacerme el listo ni sarcástico supongo que te confundiste aunque es muy raro muy raro
Outstanding review. Does the Clarett 8preX come with thunderbolt 3? (Usb Type-C connector) the only Thunderbolt my computer has is Thunderbolt 3 USB type C- connector.
Get an adapter.
Will this works/ integrate with Presonus Studio One 3.5? I have an iMac with i5 4 core processor, 8 GB ram, also could use a Mac Book Air 13" but this one has i7 only 4 GB ram. My Windows machine is too unstable to use it for recording even when more powerful than the Apple ones. I do need TWO of these connected, I noticed they only have one thunderbolt port so how I daisy chain two as I want to record my 7 piece kit using anywhere from 10 to 14 channels depending if I will mike BD in out and SN top and bottom plus room ambience? -- I started my project with a Yamaha TF1, had tons of issues, had to return, could never make it work with the DAW, tech support could not help, exchanged for a Presonus Studio Live 32, Series III, then realized this mixer stills does not work together with the Presonus Studio One 3.5 yet! as Presonus needs to update its firmware and have been promising to do so for the last year+! Now we are looking at this interface but I wonder if this will do??? and if I would be happy finally? I like the sample rates choices that you are not locked to 48Khz like with the mixers and the pres sound really clean at least from what I can hear from home using my desktop audio Logitech 5.1 speakers. Any Help is greatly appreciated. I can play some drums but obviously new to working with audio!
which would you choose the new clarett 8pre or this 8prex
Amazing review !! Very professional!
I alwo own one 8preX, and I'm completely happy with it. In terms of sound, it can easily compite (and even beat) with UAD Apollo, Audient, RME... And it's considerably better priced. Great preamps and amazing A/D converters :)!
Sergio Bob Castillo Riquelme are you on Mac or PC?
@@samchoate1719 mac!!
Hi..how about Mac drivers ?
@@neoaureus Super stable and easy to use !
@@SergioBobCastillo How does the 8preX compare when using the UAD Apollo pre amp emulaters available like Neve,Helios etc .Seems most give the UAD the nod due to these options available but the Red suite 2&3 is available with the Focusrite gear but no pre amp change options from what i can tell
Hey Adam , Thanks for this video. Can I buy 2 of these for 16 Channels ? Do they connect via thunderbolt as well ? Thank you. Where are you located ?
Using a 48 kHz sample rate and a 24 bit depth, is it possible to connect 2 Focusrite Clarett OctoPre to 1 Foscurite Clarett 8PreX and have 8+8+8 = 24 channels?
How do you control your DAW from behind the kit? Did you just run an external LCD and Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to control your IMac?
Hi....what's your take on Focusrite drivers ...for a Mac? This is discontinued...but how do keep up with new drivers , when the OS keeps updating every year?
@Adam Tuminaro Couldn't you add that air sound later on while mixing? (I assume the microphones themselves don't change in terms of the frequencies they record?)
Arjan I'm afraid that's not how interfaces work. The AIR feature directly affects the preamp, so it's an "all or nothing" feature. Once the audio has been recorded, those sounds don't touch the interface again, aside from basic monitoring.
I have been using this interface for about a year. It is a fantastic piece of kit, but there is a downfall however. That is, no Thunderbolt 3 drivers for PC yet. For MAC users thus is a non-issue, but on PC you might get some slight audio glitching affecting the playback in certain situations.
There has been no PC driver update for a year.
I am not sure what is the deal here and hope Focusrite has not abandoned further driver development for PC already.
At this moment, I would recommend also researching other options, if you do not work with a MAC.
Garderüd Ghost I’ve been using this interface for about a year as well, and I’ve had 0 issues with my 2013 windows thunderbolt drivers.
Garderüd Ghost Buy a Mac.
What do you use for your Tom Mics?
what plp need realize it the whole sound chain ! Room sound and treatment / Quality mics / kits sounds ect tuning , , yes then of course good pre , just remember that plp
I'm really confused about the thunderbolt connection. which one of the 3 types of thunderbolt cables is required for the focusrite clarett 8prex?
Thunderbolt 1.. but you can get adapters to take it into thunderbolt 3 which uses the usb C connector.
I really love the clarett sound! Great detail even comparing it to the Scarlett detail. I will probably upgrade to clarett! Now things I liked and disliked about the video and the mixes: I LOVE that you use a batter head mic on the kick and a resonant head mic as well and blend them together. That is something I notice less and less people doing because “EQ exists!!!” I love drummer perspective planning on the final mix and I love the compression on the kick batter and the snare. What I did not like was the gating. Now that’s a “my recording style” preference but I don’t like gating drums. I feel like if the drums are where you like them sound wise, then the mic placement can be used to record the drums exactly as they are as far as Frequency goes (like putting a monitor on the mic and moving it until it sound like the real thing.) so I feel like when I do that then I can blend the drums together and get a little more of a full but also natural sound as opposed to something more on the isolated side. Like recording a piano with 2 mics as opposed to each string having a mic and gating and planning them all from left to right. But since they are drums and the mics are in such close proximity I feel like the gate can only do so much before it starts chopping detail. So if the individual drums don’t sound to much different from each other in the DAW, then it turns more into a job of blending the volumes as opposed to trying to make each mic have its own sound. I’m not sure if I am making any sense but... I’m any case this was a fantastic video and really illustrates how well those pres work!
I feel you. I am spending a lot of time on tuning and trying NOT to muffle the drums in any way. Now this creates some challenges with some music styles but, well, me and my guitarist we have a kind of agreement. :D
@@enewhuis tuning is a great alternative. But even if you have to muffle or deaden something (like cymbals… because you can’t tune them…) it’s better to do it beforehand than to try to use post processing to “fix” it. And then at some point you gotta use gates and stuff and it just creates more problems. Also, make sure you’re selecting an appropriate mic and placing it well so that you’re capturing the most detail with the least bleed (you don’t want a cymbal showing up in the snare mic just as loud as the snare signal now…)
Are you using the same interface still today?
amazing video ... I buy 8pre or 8prex...
Excellent! Can I contact you, bro? I need some help with choosing my next interface/pre! I got a lot of doubts and I don´t want to waste my money on something that is not what I need! I hope you can help me! Thank you!
Roberto Varela y su Gerencia You’re welcome to hop on the next Skype day. 👊🏼 OrlandoDrummer.com/Skype-Lessons
Can I hook this up to an ipad pro?
No. It connects via Thunderbolt which is not available on iPads.
If you are having to ask that question you need to be looking at entry level interfaces.
Steve Gadd incarnate
what microphones are you using in this video ?
David Stafford bruh it was literally in the video
Not my kind of interface, however for the price it is perfect for studios that are starting up. A lot of connectivity options, and great pre amps for the price.
thought you had a bandaid on your head
Unfortunately the Clarett was discontinued this year.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate that they didn't include the 8PreX in the Clarett USB series. I just bought a used one for that reason
Cla-Rett?!
First
I knew I could find the devil if I looked hard enough.
Why is Scarlett pronounced "scar-lut" but Clarett is pronounced "cla-rette"?
Crumpets Yams & Biltong because low A and U, and high A and E.
Jonathan Venegas is that exclusive to US pronunciation though? In Britain they are pronounced similarly to each other.
Darn, have i been pronouncing Clarett wrong 😕
So by your logic you went from a $50 preamp to roughly a $150 preamp still seems pretty low budget to me quality preamps cost $1000 bucks or more per channel on the semi pro level and way more for professional recording not bashing $150 preamps just trying to make since of what you were getting at 🤔
Dude welp. Smh. It didn't sound that much better then the $50 preamp. Can I ask if your using a mixing console? Just sounds dark and lack luster.
Rob Payne III I think you may need better speakers my friend. The difference was drastic, and I would strongly disagree with your description of the Clarett. We do not use a mixing console, just a DAW.
Rob Payne III I heard a very noticeable difference between the Scarlett and Clarett. I thought the Clarett sounded much cleaner and articulate. Just wondering, what are using to listen this demo?
Thanks! Nice and clear!