I Hope I Didn't Make A Big Mistake?

[kokycoal]

I broke down and ordered the E-mu 0404 USB "White" interface last nite. I have heard much downing of this product on this site, however I have read praise here to but not very much. I did read some good reviews on other sites from people who actually have the product. I guess the software bundle is what pushed me over the edge, especially the Melodyne. I guess what I am wanting is someone out there to make me feel OK about my purchase. I am a Bluegrass musician and that is the main genre that I will be recording so I will never be using any more that 2 mics for acoustics instruments. From what I have read I should be OK with USB as opposed to Firewire. (I almost bought The Presonus Firebox but backed out when I heard about issues with Express Cards and Firewire Interfaces, my laptop doesn't have a firewire port.) Any comments will be appreciated.

 

[Jim Lad]

What's not to like?
Looks to me like a good purchase and there is no reason (other than your own limitations) that you should not be able to produce a quality, Blue Grass album with that piece of gear.
There are some who will swear they will never use E-MU gear and others who swear by it.
Just read the reviews and trust your own judgement.
Same goes for the whole Firewire versus USB thing.
Coke and Pepsi as far as I'm concerned.
Congratulations on your purchase and for taking your first step into home recording.
I hope you find it as rewarding as the rest of us.
Have some fun with it!

 

[slowmotion]

If you're just using a couple of mics/tracks at a time, I'm pretty sure the USB/firewire difference is pretty negligible, I think it only starts mattering if you are using USB with a slower computer/hard drive and maybe 4/5 or more tracks at once (or have a lot of system conflicts etc). Probably doesn't even matter at all any more these days, with PC's being as fast as they are.

Otherwise the specs look pretty good to me. I think you'd need a fairly awesome room/monitors/pretty much everything else before you'd ever call it a weak spot (and then it'd probably just be gear snobbery haha). Just plug in and rock on!