Rupert Neve Designs Portable 517: 500 Series Mic Pre / DI / Comp USB Interface

Use this in my project studio and find it works great for bass, as well as guitar and other vocals. Compressor is really sweet too.

I bought mine about 3 years ago and it became flakey and crackly last year after very light, gentle use. This year, it stopped working entirely. Well, it passes some audio, but it's a very crackly, thin signal. This has been in a rack-mounted 500 series chassis in a climate controlled smoke-free studio since I bought it.I am having trouble understanding how a piece of equipment with the Rupert Neve Designs name on it, that was as expensive as this thing was, can die so quickly. I gave it two stars because for the year or so that it actually worked it sounded great. But a year for that price is not really worth it. You might want to save your dough and get something reliable instead.