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This was actually my point. People seem to think that you need to record hot in order to get better signal to noise ratio whereas in reality, the noise on your recordings comes from your surroundings rather than a poor audio interface. Off the top of my head, 16bit gives you something like 96...

I've got the 1010LT and am really happy with it. All convertors aren't created equal though and those on the full 1010 are meant to be much better. Also, the marketing info/specs big's up the fact that these convertors are housed in a separate unit, well away from RF generating PC components...

Just out of interest, why is it that recording near to zero means you're getting a better sound going in to your DAW?

Man, I'd go a little lower. If you're tracking things like snares at -24dBFS, there'll be transients that go up as high as -1 to -3 dBFS! I tend to track vocals to between -18 and -12 anyway as I'd rather play it safe. You can always lift the levels later and any alleged loss in quality due to...

Is it acoustic you're recording or electric? If it's acoustic, I always ran in to problems recording it with just one mic (the fact that the mic was an SM58 going in to my 1010LT's pre didn't really help matters either). I'm really no expert on this, but I think most engineers like to use 2...