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Do not be fooled by the Microbook’s size, it may be small but it is huge when it comes to audio quality. The MicroBook is a USB-powered audio interface that makes studio-grade performance possible at a size of your pocket. Despite its size, the MicroBook can turn your Mac or your PC into your own 4×2 recording studio all complete with the audio I/O and mixing features needed for any professional recording needs.

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Whether on a Mac or a PC, the MicroBook gives you a complete personal recording set up on any platform. It has four simultaneous inputs that allows for a microphone, a guitar, a keyboard, or any other stereo line-level device. Its mic preamp gives nothing but a neutral coloration and pristine sound, thanks to 20dB pad and 48V phantom power of its built-in condenser mics. Not only that, the MicroBook also offers flexibility you can choose among a programmable analog, a digital, and headphone outputs.

Because the MicroBook is slim, its mic input is a balanced quarter-inch jack. But should you wish to use a mic cable with an XLR plug, you can use the XLR-to-1/4-inch adapter that comes with the MicroBook. Its Precision Digital Trim allows you to control analog trim on all analog units digitally. This means that you get to enjoy both the excellent signal quality of analog audio circuitry and the fine-tune precision of digital control. Plus, you get to save and recall the trim settings on your computer.

But perhaps MircoBook’s main attraction is its unmatched audio quality. It provides rigid audio quality particularly tailored to meet the demands of most professional recording applications. And because the MicroBook belongs to a family of high quality devices such as the FireWire, USB and PCI audio interfaces, you are assured that it embodies decades of great engineering experience.

While most of the audio interface brands in the market today cut corners with unbalanced analog inputs and outputs, the MicroBook is different. These brands greatly compromise audio performance, making it fall way below the standards of a balanced circuit. The MicroBook has a well balanced inputs and outputs that makes sure of the best protection possible from RF interferences, AC hum, and other noise-creating factors.

The guitar input of the MicroBook provides nothing but the appropriate impedance loads for guitars, letting you play through guitar-processing plug-ins in a host software knowing that you will get a natural feel and response. MicroBook’s “mini” eight-inch analog input can be connected to an iPod or any other stereo-level signal. This means that you can mix an audio input with other inputs and route them to any output device.

With the birth of the MicroBook, you can now have quality I/O recording, personal audio tracking, laptop-based DJing, among many other applications, on-the-go.

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