This one came up as a tangent during the Currycaster discussion, but it’s a real, specific, long-standing piece of gear advice worth pulling out on its own. Gene’s been running a MOTU UltraLite AVB interface for about 15 years at this point — he traced it back to around when he moved to Austin — and his case for it is straightforward: it does everything the newer purpose-built podcasting boxes (the ones with all the knobs and flashing pads) do, and then some, because it’s actually professional stage-audio gear, not something designed around podcasting specifically. Gene is upfront that it’s overkill for the job and that the routing software took real time to learn, but once it’s set up, it just works — he’s still running the same unit, and these interfaces are reportedly known to hold their resale value rather than depreciate. Worth knowing before buying a flashier, podcasting-specific box: a serious audio interface built for the stage might already do the job better.
You can get this updated version of the MOTU UltraLite on Amazon.
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