Does anyone know if it's possible to bypass the preamps in a Firepod? I've got some other preamps I want to use and the pre's on the Firepod limit me getting the full range on my external pre's. Anyone know how?

I am very interested in buying a firepod. I had one question though before i do. I know that phantom power is switchable in groups of four. I will probly (to begin with) only be using 2 maybe 3 condenser mics. My question is is it ok to use a dynamic mic in that group of four with the phantom power turned on. Does it affect the dynamic mic at all if i use it with phantom power on?

I'm the happy owner of a Firepod, after I got it working correctly, though.
I'm wondering if I've got the necessary gear for doing real pro audio.

My Firepod was working billiant, and then this awful scratty sound came along ! Does anyone have a clue ?

Heres the link to the sound clip, it's a very small mp3:
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The scrat isn't always on, but it sometimes just starts out! it's really strange !

Hope you can help me !

My newly puchased Firepod works pretty great with 1 and 2 channel, but from channel 3 to 8 it feels like the preamp is totally missing. I thought when i bought the Firepod, like it is showed on PreSonus' website, that you only need your Firepod, your mic's + cables to record fx. drums directly into the application without any extra hardware such as preamps, but i guess I was wrong ?

I'm just curious, I know you'd never want to replace a mixer with a setup like this, but.

If you were to use 2 firepods and a super solid computer that you build yourself and is dedicated just for that purpose for live audio and mixing, could that possibly work? Would the latency be really noticable in a live application?

My buddy asked me to build him a sys. So I figured I would start from the dig/midi interface and build computer from there.

I bought him a firepod. Now it's the Processor/MB/HD...

Can anyone recommend a MB and HD that has known compatibility with the firepod? I will buy a firewire PCI interface card...

I am thinking of buying the PreSonus Firepod. All I want to do is basic recording of demo's on guitar with vocals and hopefully record my band. Anyone have the pro's and con's on this unit?

Thanks for the help.

Is it possible to connect 2 Firepods to a Powerbook at once? I know the FP has 2 firewire ports on the back - can you daisy-chain 2 of them together? I have a Firewire 800 external drive on the FW 800 port for storing audio.

I want to do this to record 16 tracks at once. Is there a better way to get the same results (16 at once) on a Powerbook? Or do i need to get a G5 Power Mac?

any comments, rants, etc etc on the PreSonus Firepod? Thanks.