Great song! Man, those lyrics are very deep and moving! Especially the part that goes Bah dupp bah dupp bah dupp dah bah. I can relate to that because something very similar happened to me when I was a teenager.

At last! A world class studio guy teaching us newbies how budget equipment works.

Hi friends, please check out the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Studio Bundle. This is an extremely affordable option for those of you looking to get your first home recording setup. It comes with an interface, microphone, headphones, and Cubase LE. That's everything you need to start making great recordings! I had a blast opening it up and laying down a little song idea from scratch! I hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed making it! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren

Love the way you teach man. Glad to see someone finally USE the gear in action. Well done. Thanks!

Years later, and this video is still one of my main influences. Thanks, Warren!

I've watched so many reviews and videos, the way you "learned" the kit with your viewers really brought us behind the curtain and made the review so much better and practical.

Love when you do these videos on very accessible, inexpensive gear! Very inspiring.

This is the most useful way to review a product I've seen. Actually using it for it's intended purpose XD! Wish more people did this.

Unreal! I was looking all around for a demonstration of how this piece of equipment is used and sure enough, you nailed it. Thanks Warren.

This is the interface I will be starting on for Christmas, but I really appreciate how your review of the product actually showed you using it step by step and discovering its quirks.

YOU ARE AMAZING! Finally someone who actually test the products and not only show us some weird final result.

I have the Scarlett 2i2 and i know on windows, if you load the driver, you can lower the buffer to about 128 and not notice any delay at all.

"...being familiar with a something is probably more important than the product itself" is such a true statement! I've been mixing at home with M-Audio AV40s and BX5s. When I used to take my pre-pro to the studio, they'd always ask what I mixed them on! It's just bc I know the speakers, headphones, and other sources I mix and playback on.

Thanks so much for burning that melody in my head! Excellent video man

Outstanding review of the Studio. Heck, this was an outstanding intro to recording and songwriting. Great job and thank you!

I am not a big subscriber, but this channel is a must. As an artist, I instantly want to record with this guy. As a hobbiest/semi-pro music production guy, I want to study under him. And as a youtube viewer, I want to watch everything he's ever put out, whether it actually pertains to me or not. This was killer to watch. It reminded me of me when I was younger trying to record things for the first time with barely any gear and how excited I was when I succeeded in creating something and being able to listen back to it. Man, I love this no bullshit attitude he has of just using/improving your skill and not getting wrapped up in the tech and nonsense where people try and tell you that you can't do if you've got the "wrong" gear. This video just debunked that in 15 minutes. Everyone should want to go create something after seeing this. That song sounded great with very little going on there. This might have been the best 25 minutes I've ever spent on KZfaq. Keep this up, Mr. Warren. We out there trying to make it need more people like you - encouraging approach.

That's it, this pushed me to make the leap and get all the gear needed for recording finally. Thank you for the very detailed tutorial and analysis sir!!

awesome product review Warren, by the way great, great, great performance even on vocals at the beginning I was a little afraid but you did it just great, congratulations! and thanks for sharing.

Loved this video Warren - was already using a Scarlett 2i2 but learnt more about it from this video than from months of my own usage! Marvellously well explained!

This is great! I was just looking into getting one of these just as something quick and easy for my bedroom, this just drove it home! Thank's for actually showing off what it can do Warren, much appreciated!

Wow, can't believe that Bruce Dickison from Iron Maiden is doing a review on the Scarlet 2i2 studio pack. :)

This video is better than the company's!

If I could have pictured an exact video I’ve been looking for this evening, this is exactly it in spades - fantastic job! Thanks so much for making Warren

Great job Warren. Based on your review, I gifted a lifelong musical friend with this product. I know he'll love it. BTW... Just wanted to thank you for all of the great videos, and other resources.

Just discovered this channel (this week)....this is better than the companies video on presentation and use....love that vocal trick ! Thanks

You're a star, Warren! Learnt a ton. Thank you so much for this.

Great teacher....I've been watching tons of these how to audio interface vids and throwing my shoes at the screen because people just sit around and talk for 20 min and say absolutely nothing useful...this guy gives you information you can actually use and gets at it straight away and is doing something while he's talking so he doesn't waste your valuable time you could be writing and recording brilliant hit songs...bravo

I loved this interface! I started with the 2i2 and loved it so much that I stuck with the Scarlett range when I upgraded to the 18i20. Focusrite makes such great products!

I actually just bought one of these to bring around with my laptop, it works like a charm and preamps sound good! Not as clean as the presonus class a amps though but good enough

Thanks

Absolutely loved this review and the way you showed and recorded everything

Thank you for helping me with this video Warren! I watched about 15 or more videos on KZfaq on how to set up and use the Scarlett for pro tools on mac, and none of the videos were as detailed as this one!

When a pro use affordable equipment, looks like they playing toys. When amateur like me use affordable equipment I'm feel like a pro.. 😭😂 Nice video sir.

"I'm not a singer!" and then proceeds to hit the lines with your voice pitch perfect.

I think it's a great thing that you focus sometimes on budget equipment to o. It seems that you haven't lost your feets from the ground and that makes your videos charming and informative as well as damn cool. Is also a great thing that you actually go through all the steps of a process on camera. Thank you and keep up the great work. Have joy and be sound

Thank you! I've been umming and ahhing about this set for about a year now, and now thanks to your video I have a good feeling about it! Gonna go out and buy it this week :))))

Very useful and informative, thank you it's more or less answered all my questions I had about this product.

lovely, so creative:)Appreciate your guitar and bass crafty performance:)

So nice to see a Pro at work...I am really encouraged to try again.Thanks so much

Best instructional vid on any new equipment I've ever seen... bro thank you!

Is your system optimized for 512 playback engine???? When I track my guitars, I either use 128 or 256. I rarely have latency. Plus maybe Eleven is adding to the latency???? Try putting the eleven on an Aux and printing???

Hi Warren, recently Focusrite announced the second generation of the scarlett interfaces... can you do a review and make comparison? thank you

Just bought this product to create on this musical journey. Your videos have really helped me to get started. God Bless.

Just picked up the 2i4 and used this video to get jump-started. Great review, nice production, and SUB'd!

This is such a cool video! I love how you did that and showed people how accessible home recording is these days! Plus I really like how go from recording to mixing. Even if it's only with one riff or theme. Maybe you could do a series on how to record and mix different styles at home. Great work Warren!

one of the best,highly recommend it

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! I purchased a Scarlett 2i2 some time ago. This video actually gave me the inspiration to set it all up and get started. My package didn't come with DAW software or mic though. This is a great starter set. I'm sincerely thankful for finding your channel here on KZfaq. Maybe, after I make my first recording, I should post for a review? Man I feel inspired!!

Your knowledge about the sound environment and your guitar playing are both really superb.

i quite enjoyed your singing. that vocal double track trick was awesome!

2i2 2ndGen is amazing. With Emissary 2.0 and some decent impulses does great job. Nothing less than AXE FX if we speak of home recording only.

Great video!! This is the proper way to demo and show/review a product. It was interesting to watch. Keep up the good work with this awesome channel.

Very good review video with specific comments and tests on each device included in the package. This is a video with high value in reference.

I watched the whole 25 minutes, and WOW just thanks finally found my money's worth. Have been looking around for seperate mics, interface and headphones and this just makes it simple, just gotta learn that Cubase LE hope it's not that hard. Again thanks for this! =)

Wonderful video!!! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm just about to dip my toes into the world of home recording, and I know I'm going to be a total caveman at the beginning. I'm a bass player / singer / keyboard player (The latter very badly though. In fact, if it was my main instrument, I'd probably starve!! haha) 46 years gigging (42 professionally) and this will be the first time sitting in front of the desk so to speak, as opposed to sitting behind it. I am very much looking forward to it, and thanks to your wonderful video demonstration, it's going to be fun delving into it. Once again many thanks. Sending you kindest regards, and very best wishes from Ireland

Thank you Warren - great video and introduction to using the kit. Just what I was looking for.

Best demo I have ever seen. Whimp out of the box, plug in , setup and play.

Wow, I think I have discovered a new big channel, I follow 4 or 5 channels, and this is a new one. I have been producing music with a Pod Studio UX2 many years and I probably get this Scarlett 2i2 (not the bundle). You have made a really interesting video, showing the whole process. Incredibly useful. You have a new subscriber. PD: you couldn't low the buffer size to decrease the latency? recording hearing only the DI really bothers me. Would you choose this interface definitely in the range of under 200 usd?? THANK YOU!

Wow thank you so much i will buy these

Fantastic review. I'm looking for gear to start a podcast and had been thinking about the 2i2 studio. You just sold it to me. Cheers.

you are very talented man, you explained every single details of combining those sounds and it comes with a great output. I liked that :-)

Love the video, would you consider doing something like that again for the second gen of the set focusrite released?

Great review. You're awesome and I love your reviews!

I use this all the time in my studio. It's fantastic

I'v always wondered how the Mic sounded. Thanks for this. I have been using Focusrite for a long time. Started with the 2i2 and since upgraded to the 18i20 and octopre mk2. I really like the pre-amps for my synths.

I would love to see how good you can make a song sound finished using this bundle!

having a bundle like this is an excellent starting point, it gets you started recording, and gives you an idea of what you want in your next equipment purchases, (ie do you dislike that style of head phone?, do you need more than two inputs etc.)

Amazing lesson! So much good info here. Thank you so much. Just got a 2i2 and am going to get pro tools and start making some tracks thanks to you! Good tips and tricks in there!

A Superb Video and the best review of a product I've seen for a long long time !!!!

Great resource. Everybody should see this before attempting to record.

I finished this video and was like "Jesus man wheres that subscribe button I need to hit it real quick"

This really helped me thanks a lot. Btw amazing guitar playing dude!

I've recently gotten into recording and this video deff helped a newbie like me with making a choice for starting gear. All the way from 2020 lol.

When doing a direct monitor of yourself, do the tracks(and click) from your DAW come through your headphones(connected to the headphone jack in the front panel), or is it just your instrument/vocal that you only hear?

Hi Warren! What about bringing down your DAW's buffer size a little, you can avoid latency most of the time by doing this. Greetings!

Excellent Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 setup tutorial. Presented exceptionally well with ease of understanding. Detail explanations are superb. Not too technical, but enough to understand the controls response and how to use the controls. Job well done.

this is how one should make a review of a product - testing it! :) best focusrite review so far. tnx man! :)

So when direct monitor switch is on, you can still hear the music coming from your daw? And if it's off, what do you hear a 50/50 mix of your daw and your preamp input (guitar or mic)?

Does this interface allow you to hear yourself as you record with your mix/effects on your voice if you set them ? Similar to the Apollo twin?

Really well expained! Was contemplating getting this pack and you sir have convinced me, thanks!

Very thorough and informative. Thank you very much for these awesome videos, they've been very, very helpful. These are the best home studio videos I've found on KZfaq by far. I am a keyboard player, and I've been really wanting to start producing some of my own synth recordings. I'm a bit of a late bloomer, but it's never too late to learn. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

Hi I know this video is ancient but I started with the 2i2 and have recently moved onto the focusrite itrack dock/iPad/Cubasis as my recording rig, and I wanted to say that the Focusrite components are exceptional. I'm still using the CM25 as my go to mic, along with a Shure SM57 for some applications. I blew out the headphones so those have to be replaced. Also wanted to say THANKS for giving us a detailed review of the products, it's always nice to see the gear being used in a real application by someone who is (presumably) not being paid to promote it. Also refreshing to see it put to use by an actual musician, I get so tired or software and hardware being demonstrated by people making crap electronic music haha. I don't normally follow people on KZfaq, but I think I'll make an exception in your case. It's a shame that you don't use Cubase/Cubasis, they could really benefit from having someone like yourself showing how to use their software. (Or I should say I could really benefit)

Go down with the hardware buffer to 128 and you wont feel any latency at all...I'm using the scarlet for all my songs, I had the studio package but I returned it cause I did not like the mic. and I bought the Interface as a stand alone device, I wish I could have kept the headphones, cause they were good. Have a marvelous time recording :) Cheers

Thanks Warren ! Great to follow your teachings and comments. Everything looks simple and affordable.

I recently bought my 16 year-old a Scarlett Solo bundle for his birthday, which has the single channel version of the interface. Great set and wonderful quality for the money! Nice that you've given this set the thumbs up :)

Well done, well done, even in late 2019.

On Windows 10 I just plugged it in, and it sorted the drivers out for itself. Within seconds of plugging it it was working.(Ableton Live) :-)

Thank you for the video, very informative and hands on, looking forward to other material and videos, cheers!

Today I just bought a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Studio Bundle its still in box ;-) Amazing way to teach very professional, keep making awesome content, I subscribed and like you channel. Love from Karachi-Pakistan.

Hardware buffer at 512 will introduce latency as well.. I run my hardware at 48. (depends on your setup)

when recording vocals do you put it on line or inst???

Tengo la misma interfaz y es muy basta para iniciarse en la producción y grabación. Thanks Warren, aprendo mucho en sus videos.

I am just starting out and on a budget, and I got this bundle based on this vid review. Thanks!

Hi, i have a little doubt. when te condenser mic is pluged in it should be on line or instrument?

The great thing about this package for someone just starting out is that you get fairly good extras and a great interface for not too much money. If producing doesn't turn out to be your great passion then no great financial loss. 2i2's will certainly resell. If producing does turn out to be a great passion then you can and will expand. Even if you get a new and bigger interface, the 2i2 is a perfectly usable field interface. Even cheap headphones are handy to have around as extras and the microphone can also be assigned field duty so as not to risk your more expensive mics... recording Bull snorts at the rodeo or thunder and rain or whatnot.

Thank you so much for making this video. I've never recorded anything except on my iPhone! I found the video really helpful to decide to buy the studio bundle.

Your reviews are Gold! Thanks so much warren!

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Why am I here watching a review of a product I’ve already owned for 1.5 years? 😂

Thanks so much. I've been using this for all my recordings and I didn't really make use of the direct monitoring. After watching your video, I am definitely gonna make use of it as the latency really got to me and affected my performances. Thanks a lot, Warren. :)

Thank you for taking the time to walk through this, I learned a lot :^) very informative.