M-Audio Octane or Presonus Digimax LT?

[Dag Haavimb]

I'm going to buy the OO2 rack version, and would like to expand it with 8 more inputs.
My budget limits me to either the Octane, or the Presonus, or perhaps a Focusrite
Do you guys have any experience wuth any of these pre's.
Which one offers the best sound quality?

[b mcgibney]

I have the octane and I'm happy with it. The m/s function is nice bonus. Very quiet, very transparent, would be nice if it had some limter/comp function but @ $700 Can plus taxes its hard to grouse.

B

[nbennett]

I have a presonus digimax lt - same as the post above - works great, but I would love to have a compressor in there, but for the price it's hard to beat.

[hotstuff]

Hi there!
I wrote this in another thred.
I´ve got an octane and am very happy with it, first of all it´s got a good clock though the adat but it also has a wordclock in and out to clock it of another source, the pre´s are very nice and clean, not colored but at this price point I think it´s a good thing. The direct line out and the seperate line in feature that can bypass the the direct path between the mic pre´s and the converters is a very good feature, cause say you want to patch another mic pre though the octane to use the converters, you can do so by pluging the line out of the pre to the line in of the octane. Because of this I´ve got the line in´s and out´s normaled to each other on one of my patchbays and it´s very handy.
The octane is nice on drums but also has instrument inputs, I think the pre´s are usefull on a lot of different sources.
To me the octane is very good value!
Check out the review in Mix magazine! Just do a search on the site by writing octane and it will showup.
I´ve never tried to presonus unit so I cant give you an opinion, but I´ve got a Focusrite twintrak pro which has the same pre´s as the octopre and I think I would like to try it on drums but I dont think it´s twice as good as the octane (it costs twice as much with the adat option), but it does have built in limiters, but that is something I dont use while tracking.
I realy like my setup- 001, TT Pro, Octane, and small very old 6 channel Studiomaster console! A total of 18 simultaneous inputs!