hay guys, awesome forum by the way, cheers. I done a vocal recording the other day using the mic input on the hd desktop and was quite impressed with the dry vocal. got some good feedback from muso friends in regards to it after i had used some vst processing on it. Not wanting to get into mic placement, room acoustics, type of mic etc... but whats ur thoughts on the mic pre , quality wise etc, cant seem to find much comments about the pre over the net. Ive been looking at the focusrite scarlett 6i6 as i just sold my mbox 3 (which i thort was overrated and crap drivers which drove me insane) so i can spdif the pod hd if i need or analogues out whilst using the focusrite pres, heard good things bout the scarlett and i want another toy lol, cheers