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For those who work with recording equipment every day, it can be easy to forget just how overwhelming even the simplest studio rig can appear to the uninitiated. Even something as simple as recording a microphone signal while returning a monitoring signal to the performer, which is second nature to seasoned engineers, can be fraught with challenges for newcomers. There’s input gain to be set, internal signals to be bussed, not to mention the whys and wherefores of input monitoring – and all this comes before you’ve even started to record your ideas. Let’s face it, if all you’re interested in is creating music, this preamble can be something of a chore, no matter how clued-up you are.

Many hardware manufacturers have tried to address this situation by creating audio interfaces