Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Generation: USB Audio Interface

About the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Generation: USB Audio Interface

Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Generation has gone platinum.  Sitting on the desks of a huge global community of musicians, producers and home-recordists, the iconic 2i2 has already helped make more records than any other Interface in history.  And through the 3rd Generation, you’re going to sound better than ever.  This is the perfect Interface for Audio capture or work from home Audio solutions!

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

Your music, write away:

Scarlett's best-selling interface – millions of musicians use 2i2 to write and record every day.  Featuring natural sounding 3rd Generation mic preamps, and air, emulating our original ISA preamps, 2i2 is getting musicians the most from their mics everywhere, all the time.  It's like writing in a studio.

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:

• 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 rums 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 ± 0.1dB
• Dynamic range: 110.5 dB (A-weighted)
• THD + N: < 0.002%
• Maximum input level: 22 dBu (at minimum gain)
• Gain range: 56 B
• 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