Focusrite Solo or Audient Evo 4

TTBZ

Going to order a new interface soon and debating between the Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd gen, or Audient Evo 4. Mainly planning on using it for the guitar input for playing and recording through plugins in Reaper - Mercuriall Spark and maybe the new Neural Gojira.

I know Focusrite will be a solid choice but wondering if the JFET input on the Audient makes much of a difference in sound or feel? Do both have a similar quality of Win10 drivers and low latency? Also a good headphone amp is crucial for my usage, will be using it with 80 ohm DT770s mainly, but also 32 ohm Grados from time to time. Is the Audient worth the extra tenner or just go with the tried and tested Focusrite?

John_A

Probably very little in it quality wise, the evo is newer, so doesn’t have the track record and you do see a fair few “for parts not working”audient interfaces on ebay 

having said that, I had an id44 and it was great

TTBZ

Think I'll probably just stick with Focusrite then in that case just for peace of mind! Cheers. The more I look at the Audient, I think I'd just get annoyed with the 1 knob layout, as nice as it looks.

John_A

TTBZ said:

Think I'll probably just stick with Focusrite then in that case just for peace of mind! Cheers. The more I look at the Audient, I think I'd just get annoyed with the 1 knob layout, as nice as it looks.

A wise choice IMO

Greatape

In terms of Win10 stable interfaces, the new Tascam US-HR range talks a good fight