Recommended avid interfaces...which one?

[charlie2]

Hello again

I need a recommended avid interface. Eleven rack is going out and I wanted that bc I'm a guitarist

Only choices I have are mbox3. Mboxpro3.and duet and quartet but quartet is expensive.

Which would serve my guitar needs

Thanks again

[GBall]

In the current generation of Pro tools (when they aren't using the mbox as a sort of ridiculously sized dongle) you can use just about anything (mbox or not) and it still works fine with the eleven rack plugins. I think maybe the main difference is going to be latency if you want to record/monitor with those plugins or someone else's stomp box /amp emulations. If that fits, you might ask if it supports type C USB 3 or thunderbolt, and look at what the round trip latency numbers for each of the interfaces would be. I play terrible listening to any significant delay.

For an acoustic or vocals you might like the sound of certain pre's better. If so I don't think the mbox would ever be your first choice though I think its okay. The Apigee Duet maybe? JMO though. I do often record an acoustic with a stereo pair and an LDC - so you could make a cause for the QUAD. But you probably have friends to record with occasionally, and I personally bought a Focusrite 18i20 which in my opinion was a whole lot more capability for less money. The Gen 3 latency is like 1ms or so, and enough inputs and monitors that I never have to think about who's coming over. Just my opinion though.

Greg