NAID: RME Fireface UCX II

[Sascha Franck]

Recording vocals via the Quantum was really annoying, even at the low latencies it can achieve.

As said, if you can't manage to have 100% latency free HP monitoring, it sometimes is a trick to actually raise the latency some.
Learned that ages ago when the LUG (Logic Users Group) was still a mailing list and things such as interface or native software monitoring slowly became a thing.
I made use of that trick 2-3 times ever since (might've been some psychoacoustic/placebo trickery in one case, though, has been a singer that you could've fooled with an important looking "producer knob" as well...).

 

[Sedaxel]

Does anyone know how compares the Arturia Audiofuse (studio or Rev2) in terms of quality? They seem to be very feature rich. Don't know about preamps and converters. It seems they are more accessible here in the used market. In the 400€ ballpark.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Does anyone know how compares the Arturia Audiofuse (studio or Rev2) in terms of quality? They seem to be very feature rich. Don't know about preamps and converters. It seems they are more accessible here in the used market. In the 400€ ballpark.

They’ll just be run of the mill stuff, maybe comparable to audient/focusrite/UA volt/SSL etc. Arturia have great software so I’d probably only go that route if some good stuff is bundled in (which may not be the case used).

 

[Orvillain]

As said, if you can't manage to have 100% latency free HP monitoring, it sometimes is a trick to actually raise the latency some.
Learned that ages ago when the LUG (Logic Users Group) was still a mailing list and things such as interface or native software monitoring slowly became a thing.
I made use of that trick 2-3 times ever since (might've been some psychoacoustic/placebo trickery in one case, though, has been a singer that you could've fooled with an important looking "producer knob" as well...).

The Presonus Quantum doesn't support monitoring via hardware. Only via DAW. This wasn't an option. I also don't particularly think it is a good idea.

 

[Sascha Franck]

The Presonus Quantum doesn't support monitoring via hardware. Only via DAW.

Ouch, that's pretty bad for an interface in that league, even if DAW latency is low.

I also don't particularly think it is a good idea.

Raising latency? Defenitely not. But sometimes you just don't have any other options.