for vocal recording mbox usb or mbox firewire?

[candelamusic]

im going to be recording into a white apple macbook 2GB 120gb, im only going to be recording vocals, is there a big difference between the mbox usb and mbox firewire to do this? i'll really appreciate your help

 

[mjbphotos]

USB uses the computer's CPU, so if you've got firewire on the Mac, use it!

 

[KineticSound]

is there a big difference between the mbox usb and mbox firewire to do this?

Big difference? No. As mjb correctly stated, the USB version will put a little more drag on the host cpu; Firewire will not. But for tracking a single vocal line at a time, your MacBook has plenty of horsepower to run either one without issue.

 

[suprstar]

Prolly not, I assume they have the same pre's. The firewire one has some additional line-out's which require more bandwidth, which is why it uses fw instead of usb. Firewire is faster overall, if you ever need to record a lot of tracks at once, USB couldn't keep up. USB is fine for 2 tracks, FW can take as many tracks as you could ever need.

 

[candelamusic]

this was the first question i ask and i got the answers i was hoping to get, thanks a lot everybody