Audient iD22 AD/DA USB Interface & Monitoring System By Strother Bullins, Editor of Pro Audio Review English manufacturer Audient—founded by David Dearden and Gareth Davies, Soundcraft veterans and founding partners of DDA—has built moderately-priced yet great sounding, fully-professional analog recording gear since 1997. The brand is bolstered by its founders’ history, knowledge, and experience in the industry; for just one popular credit, Dearden worked with three-fourths of the Beatles (Lennon, Harrison and Starr) on both analog console maintenance and design/build projects. Both Dearden and Davies are veterans of the console industry, having a unique insight into building authentic British analog (or as the Brits say “analogue”) consoles and recording gear, in general.
Their latest (possibly the product to raise their brand's profile amongst the self-recordist crowd) is the iD22, a Mac OS-compatible, USB-based audio interface and monitoring system featuring a two-input, six-output 24-bit, 96 kHz AD/DA with ADAT optical I/O and a number of attractive features, including two fully balanced quarter-inch TRS inserts (perfect for those of us with favorite analog outboard processors to incorporate into our DAW-based productions). More »
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