Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Generation: Audio Interface (Open Box)

About the Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Generation: Audio Interface (Open Box)

You’ve found the simplest USB Audio Interface we make.  If you want to start creating studio quality recordings through your guitar, the 3rd Generation Scarlett Solo provides an easy way in.

• The best performing Scarlett mic preamp the range has ever heard – now through air – for miking up guitars or recording vocals
• One high headroom instrument input, for plugging your guitar or bass straight in
• Quick start tool, making it easier than ever to get up and running
• High-performance converters, allowing you to record, mix and play back audio in studio quality, anywhere

The Interface we've all been looking for:

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.

The best sounding, easily:

Getting studio-quality recordings at home has never been easier.  Quick 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.

Your recording is 30 years in the making:

We’ve been making mic preamps for 30 years, and the 3rd Generation mic pre is the best Scarlett has ever heard.  The 24 bit / 192 kHz 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.

All the tools you need to start recording right, now:

Your Solo Interface comes through a whole range of recording software, sounds and plug-ins to choose from:

• Ableton live lite music making software
• Free 3-month avid pro tools subscription
• Free 3-month splice sounds subscription and new splice accounts
• Access to the Focusrite plug-in collective
• Hitmaker expansion which includes:
• Antares auto-tune access – allows everything from natural sounding, near-real-time pitch adjustment for getting the best vocal takes – to lightning-fast hip-hop-inspired pitching for adding a whole new sound to your track
• Relab LX480 essentials - provides four reverbs, modelled on the hit factory NYC's reverb unit, and used on countless hits
• Softube Marshall silver jubilee 2555 - A hyper-realistic model of Marshall's silver jubilee 2555 – the modern evolution of the iconic JCM800 – brought to you by analogue modeling experts Softube
• XLN Audio addictive keys - choice of one of four professional-sounding models from Steinway, Yamaha and the classic Rhodes
• XLN Audio addictive drums 2: studio rock kit - features expertly captured samples from a high-end Tama and pearl drums, and paiste and Sabian cymbals, recorded at decibel studios in Stockholm
• Brainworx bx_oberhausen - fully-analogue modelled replica of a classic American polysynth
• Brainworx bx_console Focusrite SC - brings the true sound of the preamps that made Focusrite what we are today to your music
• Focusrite red plug-in suite – meticulously captured digital models of the truly iconic EQ and compressors which have made the Focusrite name a staple in world-class facilities across the globe
• Brainworx bx_masterdesk - brings a smooth and simple workflow to the art of mastering, and allows anyone, from first-time-producer to industry pro to get studio-quality results quickly and effortlessly

Supported sample rates:

• 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz

Microphone inputs:

• Frequency response: 20 hz - 20 kHz ± 0.1 dB
• Dynamic range: 111 dB (A-weighted)
• THD + N: < 0.0012% 
• Noise EIN: -128 dB (A-weighted)
• Maximum input level: 9 dBu (at minimum gain)
• Gain range: 56 dB
• Impedance: 3 kΩ

Line inputs:

• Frequency response: 20 hz - 20 kHz ± 0.1 dB
• Dynamic range: 110.5 dB (A-weighted)
• THD + N: < 0.002%
• Maximum input level: 22 dBu (at minimum gain)
• Gain range: 56 dB
• Impedance: 60 kΩ

Instrument inputs:

• Frequency response: 20 hz - 20 kHz ± 0.1 dB
• Dynamic range: 110 dB (A-weighted)
• THD + N: < 0.03%
• Maximum input level: 12.5 dBu (at minimum gain)
• Gain range: 56 dB
• Impedance: 1.5 MΩ

Line / monitor outputs:

• Dynamic range (line outputs): 108 dB
• THD + N: < 0.002%
• Maximum output level (0 dBFS): 15.5 dBu (at minimum gain)
• Impedance: 430 Ω

Headphone outputs:

• Dynamic range: 104 dB (A-weighted)
• THD + N: < 0.002%
• Maximum output level: 7 dBu
• Impedance: < 1 Ω