Did I Make a Boo-Boo?

Doh, been rummaging around the nets for info and found any DAW would work fine. When I saw the 002, first thing I thought was it could be modded. BLA comes to mind... So, 4 more Preamp colors and alternate routing should be a win if it even works. It doesn't come with a power cord. It looks like it takes a regular IEC Computer PSU cord. I hope it's not a power brick.. can anyone confirm that?

What would make you pick up an outdated interface that is designed for a specific DAW you don't use?

Well, it will never be the center-piece of anything here, although I am little surprised I picked
it up seeing how I dislike Avid's business model, but I don't believe it can't be usefully upgraded far cheaper
than springing for a more modern interface. I mean were talking 4 preamps here, not the mother load. I've
got plenty of other options anyway. Like I initially said; it's something to mess around with for minor duties.
lol, nobody would ever know I used for anything anyway unless I mentioned it. Use it on Acoustic Guitar?.. not gonna happen
unless it proved itself after upgrading.. I knew out of the gate it would need looking in to and that was my initial thought.

The amount you'd spend to have bla mod it you could just get a better interface in general that's still currently supported and would still sound better. 

I'd eat the mistake. And move on. 

I have an 003 for a long time. It was a nice control surface. But man it sounded terrible. 

I don't think it'll be worth your time and money to mod it and use it. Eventually the drivers will break and you'll be screwed anyways. 

So, you're looking at it like 4 additional preamps?

Hopefully you can't get a more definitive answer than this... Being Black Lion Audio, I actually suggest NOT modding it. Yes, we still firmly believe this specific mod sounds better than most available interfaces today BUT there is a big BUT here. We are in the process of phasing out these mods and generally mod them now with a warning and a disclaimer. They are borderline unfixable at this point. The pots and the jacks on the front panel were custom made for digidesign since they were ordering hundreds of thousands if not millions at the time for these units. There is absolutely no replacement for these pots as they were custom made at the time for exactly this application. These have been going bad progressively more often over the years and there is no replacement for them. Once they start going bad the unit starts running into all types of noise problems.

Our solution for the last few years has been to buy every 002 and 003 we can (theyre worth almost nothing these days) and bone the front panels from them. Problem is, at this point pretty much every single 002 or 003 that we find for parts are just as bad as the unit sent in for repair itself. This leads to a situation where you could get it modded today, have a custom made and not available pots start going bad 1 week later and honestly theres not much anyone can do about it.

All in all, We dont suggest modding 002s, 003s or the older Motu units anymore. All three were bread and butter mods for us for a decade and half and now every time one comes back it's a nightmare for everyone involved. Not to mention that we consider the rack mount Apollo x's with our clock in it the first real interface that we have modded in YEARS that we would personally chose over a a fully modded 002 or 003.

That was a description of how small it is in the scheme of things; just an example - if I ever need to grab extra non-critical Preamps. Or if the converters were acceptable for misc routing of non-prominent tracks.

Yes. Mistake. Womp womp.

Bet that Line 6 pedal is cool though, so that's a win!