US-16x08 : Tascam US-16x08

I bought this for drums recording and it does a great job. You have to pay way more money for a better interface with 16 inputs.

I'm a musician/mixing engineer and this interface helped me to work for the first time outside my home studio. I also use it live for tracks/Fx. You can send stereo tracks to the main mixer without the click.

Pros :

- 8 mic inputs. Enough for drums

- 8 line inputs. You can connect your favorite individual preamps to it and upgrade the sound

- 8 outputs. Great for sending tracks/stems to outboard gear while mixing and many other things.

- has all the standard things like Phantom power, 2xHi Z inputs, Asio driver, DSP with EQ and compressor for all 16 inputs.

- great for home studios

Cons :

- knob don't feel quite solid

- In my case when I record at 48k with my i5 laptop, sometimes (once per 60 min) the sampling rate resets to 44.1khz, the default rate. This comes also with sound errors like pops, clicks..etc.

- The sampling rate is set by the DAW (Reaper here) and not by the interface itself. And you have to set and reset it many times until the DSP receive the information.