PreSonus Studio 24c USB Audio Interface

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I started recording again about 6 months after a 30 yr lay off. DAW’s for home recording…? Oh…hell yeah! I agonized over which DAW & interface to go with. I finally settled on Presonus/Studio One. Thanks in large part to Joe Gilder & Gerhardt from Presonus (look ’em up on YouTube – these guys are extremely helpful). I’m really, really glad I did. The 68c interface has worked like a champ. I will be leaving it behind soon to upgrade to their 16 channel mixer, but the 68c will NOT be leaving my sound room. The Presonus software suite has been great! Their standard plugins pretty much cover everything I need to record & mix. Trust me…the availability of plugins out there will turn your head around as if you were Linda Blair. It’s been pretty easy to learn & any problems I ran into were helped out by the members of their forum along w/ Gilder & Gerhardt. I like to say to go with what you like. Alot of people will swear by other DAW’s & there are some good ones out there, but Presonus/Studio One is what I went with as a DAW noob & it’s what I definitely like.

I was a many year user of Cakewalk’s Sonar. And did not like the direction Bandlab was taking it. So I looked around and Studio One looked pretty nice. I bought the 1810c with the included Studio One license. I couldn’t be happier with both of them. Studio One is remarkably similar to Sonar. After a brief familiarization with it, I was able to jump right in and start using it. The 1810c is an excellent piece of gear. For a single user home recording setup, it has everything I will ever need. The sound quality is really good. The direct Z monitoring solves any latency issues if your PC is not a powerhouse. I have a Dell Inspiron 1310 and it works fine. Overall I’m very impressed with them.

I like the presonus 24c.

the four meters are great, two for the inputs, and two for the mains. The mains are useful when using the headphone jack. The inputs are useful for quick gain adjustments.

The idea of a single USB-C port for both power and data is great. But in practice, I found it somewhat wanting. With a laptop, it’s actually very nice as it’s a single cable for both, and the sound stays very clean.

But for connecting to a tablet, it’s less useful. iPads don’t send out enough power through the lightning port or the new usb-c port to power up the 24c. So, you need some kind of hub in between that handles both powering and data pass-through to the iPad. I don’t have any such hubs, but even if I bought one, it’s one more thing to carry. If I have to run off a usb battery, then that’s 4 things to carry, not including the mic and headphones.

So, I would have preferred split ports with the option to run data and power through a single port, or the option to run data through one port and power through another. A simple toggle switch to determine which is preferred.

A lot of audio interfaces in the same price range do this. Those devices use older USB interfaces, and frankly, for those devices, the single-port-for-both-power-and-data options is not good, nowhere near the cleanliness of the presonus. But still, I would prefer that choice.

I also with the xlr inputs were in the back and the headphone jack was in the front. Seems like most interfaces have the xlr inputs in the front. Not something I prefer, but oh well.

Though this may be a lot to ask for such a cost effective device, it would have been nice to have a couple of HPF options and a couple of limiter options. But for the price, maybe that’s pushing the desire a bit. I currently have a sound devices 302 in front of the presonus to handle HPF and limiter duties. A rather expensive way to go, but it works well.

All in all, a great little device. clean sound, easy to use potentiometers, simple button for phantom powering, indicator for USB power on. For under $200, damn impressive.

The Presonus midi-interface that I own is a light weight, rugged and very powerful piece of hardware…the signal strength itself is powerful and the sound quality and clarity are basically pro studio quality…this interface has multiple levels of adjustability and comes with some great STUDIO ONE SOFTWARE that helps me make amazing music…

I wanted an audio to PC interface and was interested in Studio One Artist software. I had to request an invoice from seller in order to register for warranty service and to allow me to download the software. The seller responded very quickly with a pdf containing the invoice. Product and software are working fine.