Focusrite is a good pre tho for the money. I have used one for years, still have it. But as others said try to treat the room and monitors.
If you absolutely need to upgrade try the UAD Apollo 8. But I would stick with the Focus
Lol in a world with unicorns lol. True if its sound good its done for blue grass. Not in todays EDM/Pop/HipHop world with 60-70 Track sessions. The goal is to get it to sound its BEST not "good". So there for EQ and comp are used in the professional realm 100% of the time.
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Try Balancing your mixes from the start and you will have less issues of the kick not coming through "on any mix". Then you will less likely have to use compression or even side chain for that matter. Often balancing is a subject talked about the least in audio engineering. Simply balancing a...
D/A ->Digital Component ->Digital Component->Analog Component->A/D ...So in this situation a clock would be needed? But most mastering engineers use all hardware anyway...I mean the rare System 6000 users audio routed to that I can see. So this would be a situation where a clock would be used?
So you mean if two digital devices were exchanging information before conversion then a clock would be needed? Why? if the mastering engineer is in the analog domain as Boulder stated?