Which should I buy, TASCAM US-1641 USB 2.0 or PreSonus FP10 FireWire?

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Leatherface74

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I'm hoping to build a nice portable studio with the capability of recording up to 8 tracks live and have come down two these two interfaces, as they are both vista compatible and within my price range. Which would you all recommend?

Im leaning towards the Tascam as it's gotten better reviews, but it doesn't have firewire, so I dont know if that'll affect the amount of tracks I can record at once.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...dioMIDI-USB-2.0-Computer-Interface?sku=245002

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/PreSonus-FP10-10x10-FireWire-Interface?sku=242036
 
Neither. USB audio has entirely too high a glitch rate, and the FP10, being a tweaked FIREPOD, probably has all the same reliability issues that its predecessor had.

My advice, if you're looking for something in that price class, would be to scrape up another $50 beyond the cost of the FIREPOD and get a MOTU 8Pre instead.
 
Also, that is about 150 dollars more than the Tascam or the Presonus. Any other suggestions or opinions? I'm curious to know if those would be decent investments or not. I'm not looking for something amazing, just something that'll reliably give me clear, 8 live tracks, and will run on windows vista.
 
I'd save up and get a Firestudio, but that's just me. I have a 'studio and a digi and they sound great (for the money of course).
 
firestudio and firestudio project are both DICE2 cards. Some few people have had decent luck with them, a great many havent. Presonus frustratingly makes the very best laid out products out there in my opinion, with the exact options and configurations for an expandable, sensible solution, but their QC and drivers (and apparenlty, along with a few others their choice of the DICE 2 chipset) have made this a sketchy deal.

One thing for sure is that given the same setup, the MOTU will have far lower useable latency
 
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