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Incredibly reliable, Focusrite hardware won’t let you down. If, however, you come across a problem you can rely on our global support team and your three-year warranty to get it sorted. Sound.
You’ve found the simplest USB audio interface we make. If you want to start creating studio quality recordings with your guitar, the 3rd Generation Scarlett Solo provides an easy way in.
Scarlett’s most compact interface – thousands of guitar players use Solo to capture studio-quality sound every day. Capture your music anywhere by simply plugging your guitar straight in or miking up, and monitoring directly for latency-free foldback. Scarlett Solo is giving musicians worldwide professional sounding results everywhere, all the time.
Getting studio-quality recordings at home has never been easier. Easy Start gets you set up, recording and playing back within minutes. Our mic preamps, high-headroom instrument inputs and now-iconic Gain Halos mean the science of sounding great is sorted. We’ve worried about the tech, you can focus on the music.
We’ve been making mic preamps for 30 years, and the 3rd Gen mic pre is the best Scarlett has ever heard. The 24-bit/192kHz converters give your recordings clarity and detail. Air mode breathes life into vocals, adding unique high-end detail. Our decades of experience mean Scarlett sounds just like you.
Incredibly reliable, Focusrite hardware won’t let you down. If, however, you come across a problem you can rely on our global support team and your three-year warranty to get it sorted. Sound.
Your Solo interface comes with a whole range of recording software, sounds and plug-ins to choose from:
Avid® Pro Tools® | First Focusrite Creative Pack: hundreds of virtual instrument sounds, 500MB of loops, and great-sounding effects
Ableton® Live Lite™: industry-leading music-making software
Three Month Splice Sounds Subscription: Get access to millions of high-quality, royalty-free one-shots, loops, and presets, with new releases daily
XLN Audio Addictive Keys: Access one of four virtual keyboards when you register your first piece of Focusrite or Novation hardware.
Softube Time and Tone Bundle: three of Softube's world class reverb, delay and distortion plug-ins, and an an easy-to-use mastering tool
Focusrite Red Plug-in Suite: accurately models our classic Red 2 equaliser and Red 3 compressor
Focusrite Plug-in Collective: receive free versions of the most innovative software, as well as benefiting from discounts
When you buy any Focusrite hardware you gain access to the most innovative music software brands on the market. Plug-in Collective keeps you up to date on the latest tools, offering you new free downloads every couple of months, along with generous discounts. Let’s stay together.
We always quote 'real world' performance figures (measured to the AES17 standard). Some companies choose to quote chipset performance, which is misleading, and here's why.
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44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz, 192kHz
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| Scarlett Solo | Scarlett 2i2 | Scarlett 4i4 | Scarlett 8i6 | Scarlett 18i8 | Scarlett 18i20 | |
| A/D Resolution | 24-bit/192 kHz | 24-bit/192 kHz | 24-bit/192 kHz | 24-bit/192 kHz | 24-bit/192 kHz | 24-bit/192 kHz |
| Mic Preamps | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Instrument Inputs | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Analogue Inputs | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Analogue Outputs | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| Headphone Outputs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Digital I/O | NO | NO | NO | S/PDIF | S/PDF IN & OUT, ADAT IN | S/PDIF & 2 x ADAT |
| MIDI I/O | NO | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Bus Powered | YES | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO |