Focusrite ISA Digital

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So I'm in the market for a bit of a vocal signal upgrade. My current rig is a Presonus TubePre into a 003. I'm not happy with it. I've been looking at the ISA one digital for a few of reasons:

1.) I hear good things about the ISA preamps.
2.) The inclusion of a decent AD/C is appealing.
3.) Zero latency monitoring.
4.) Portability (which is a desirable quality for what I do).

Could I use this as both a decent preamp and as a decent AD/C "standalone". The idea being of course using other preamps with these AD converters, but bypassing the ISA preamp. Looking for flexibility here and this seems like a good option for me. I've looked over the specs and their seems to be an external input (EXT I/P) on the back of the unit, but I'm not sure how that is being wired into the unit and/or whether or not that input is can be sent to the AD converters. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
I'm not a huge fan of the pres and/or the AD/C on board. I use ok mics (TLM103, AT4050, 414, etc.) which I've used in other studios with pres that aren't much to write home about (Mackie D8bs for example) and they just sound more full then they do on my rig.

The reason I'm looking at the ISA is because of the inclusion of the AD/C thats being advertised as being of decent quality. Presumably higher quality than the ones found in my 003R+. My other options are external pres and a high quality AD/C, but finding a simple 2 channel A/D converter of nice quality has proven challenging and the ISA one digital could potentially be a great solution for me. If I can bypass the pres and just use the AD conversion, I could by other one channel pres and use the higher quality AD converters to come in SPDIF to my rig.
 
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