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The larger, non-bus-powered Scarlett interfaces provide perfectly good results with the SM7B. http://recordinghacks.com/2012/06/18/sm7b-audio-interface-shootou

• eropple 10y ago
  Even their 8i6 only boosts about 60dB, though. You can work with that, but that's a little low. I shoot for -14dB to -10dB for spoken stuff, and at that point you'd basically be eating the mic. The article you linked was using a Cloudlifter with the SM7B, which is a preamp on its own.
  • hammock 10y ago
    I'm looking at the scarlet 18i8, I want four mic pres and will try with the 4-channel cloudlifter. 25db from the CL and another 25 from the interface ought to sound alright
    • eropple 10y ago
      Yeah, that should be completely fine. Presonus has a 8-channel preamp that's about the same price as the 4-channel Cloudlifter, too, btw.