Questions about Focusrite Scarlett Solo – 4th Generation

You can connect your Shure SM7B directly to the Focusrite Scarlett Solo 4th Generation without the need for a Cloudlifter or similar device. The 4th generation Scarlett Solo offers significantly improved preamps with a gain capacity of 69dB, which is enough to amplify the signal from the Shure SM7B, which is known to have a low output signal, and allow for clean recording. In addition, the Scarlett Solo 4th Gen has an auto-gain function that automatically sets the optimum recording levels, making the microphone even easier to use.

Connecting a Blue Yeti X USB and DT 990 Pro headphones to the Scarlett Solo 4th generation (USB) presents a number of limitations and considerations: ## Using the Blue Yeti X - On Windows, it is impossible to use a USB microphone (such as the Blue Yeti X) at the same time as another audio interface, because the USB microphone itself functions as an audio interface. This means that you cannot record with the Blue Yeti X and the Scarlett Solo at the same time. ## Using the DT 990 Pro headset - You can connect the DT 990 Pro headphones to the Scarlett Solo without any problem. The Scarlett Solo has a headphone output with an independent volume control, allowing you to adjust the audio level sent to the headphones. In short, you can't use the Blue Yeti X and the Scarlett Solo at the same time to record, but you can use the DT 990 Pro headphones with the Scarlett Solo without any difficulty.

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The Scarlett Solo is not well suited for a microphone. Its sound is always distorted. I don't know if it works better with the 2i2.

Hi, you can safely connect your guitar. I easily connect both acoustic and electric guitars.

Hi, I hope I understand your question correctly. The front jack input 1 is mono only. You would need the next larger device for stereo signals. The output jacks at the output are also mono, but one each for L and R for monitoring. Only the USB-C output is stereo and digital, e.g. for laptop recording. Hope that helps! Peter

In my case, there are two mono sockets. So if you want it to be stereo, you would have to route the signal from the synth to both inputs (line and XLR). That would work.