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AntoineG09 « Not bad in this price range »
Published on 07/13/12 at 09:14I just need a USB interface to less than 200 €, for recording vocals, instruments, ...
It has two XLR / Jack (one with switch "MIC / LINE-Guitar", which allows you to connect a guitar (or bass, I have already done) directly in the interface), an IN / MIDI OUT, an In / Out Digital SPDIF in, an Out Jack for headphones and a stereo RCA Out for monitoring. Everything powered USB 2.0
There is also a switch for phantom power and a switch "Mono Stereo" to couple or not, the two main analog inputs.
And 5 knobs that complement the case: two gain settings, the dosage of listening between "direct input" and "computer", sending a signal in the monitors and sending the signal in the headphones.
I use it on Windows 7, with a Toshiba laptop that runs on Intel-5, to 2.3 Ghz.
UTILIZATION
The interface comes with Cubase LE 5, which I use most of the time. I also work occasionally with Ableton Live Lite 8.
Overall everything works pretty well, but I very often crashes Cubase when I work with the interface connected (and not just when I'm recording). I'm having some trouble identifying the problem, a priori it must be my PC which is not good enough and not too much a matter of drivers ... Finally, the fact remains that I work with a latency high enough to override by the buffer, but I reboot Cubase j'm'en often come out not too bad ...
GETTING STARTED
Installation is not complicated, you still have to be careful to follow the procedure for recognition of the interface which is simple and well explained.
The manual (about 30 pages) is pretty fucked up, and yet there's not much to explain is very intuitive to use.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 7 months. I was already working with small M-Audio in the same price range, but without really analyzing performance. I trust the opinion of the seller, and basically, for the price, I think it's a good choice.
The big negative points for me, it is clear that the preamps are not that great at all, then they follow what the price .. Besides the fact that their influence on the sound could be less bad, there is also a matter of dynamics arises: the boundary between the audibility of the signal and the saturation is too thin, it finds itself obliged to register with a dynamic as low as possible in order to have a clean signal, which saturates and is not sub-module.
I have not yet had the opportunity to test the I / O digital and Midi, stay tuned!
In conclusion: A very decent interface for the price and 4 I / O. It is of course the low end, do not expect too much either!
I should also mention that I use it a lot in the recording of spoken voices or sound effects, not just in music, where perhaps a less fat than other users satisfaction, but satisfaction when same!
It has two XLR / Jack (one with switch "MIC / LINE-Guitar", which allows you to connect a guitar (or bass, I have already done) directly in the interface), an IN / MIDI OUT, an In / Out Digital SPDIF in, an Out Jack for headphones and a stereo RCA Out for monitoring. Everything powered USB 2.0
There is also a switch for phantom power and a switch "Mono Stereo" to couple or not, the two main analog inputs.
And 5 knobs that complement the case: two gain settings, the dosage of listening between "direct input" and "computer", sending a signal in the monitors and sending the signal in the headphones.
I use it on Windows 7, with a Toshiba laptop that runs on Intel-5, to 2.3 Ghz.
UTILIZATION
The interface comes with Cubase LE 5, which I use most of the time. I also work occasionally with Ableton Live Lite 8.
Overall everything works pretty well, but I very often crashes Cubase when I work with the interface connected (and not just when I'm recording). I'm having some trouble identifying the problem, a priori it must be my PC which is not good enough and not too much a matter of drivers ... Finally, the fact remains that I work with a latency high enough to override by the buffer, but I reboot Cubase j'm'en often come out not too bad ...
GETTING STARTED
Installation is not complicated, you still have to be careful to follow the procedure for recognition of the interface which is simple and well explained.
The manual (about 30 pages) is pretty fucked up, and yet there's not much to explain is very intuitive to use.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 7 months. I was already working with small M-Audio in the same price range, but without really analyzing performance. I trust the opinion of the seller, and basically, for the price, I think it's a good choice.
The big negative points for me, it is clear that the preamps are not that great at all, then they follow what the price .. Besides the fact that their influence on the sound could be less bad, there is also a matter of dynamics arises: the boundary between the audibility of the signal and the saturation is too thin, it finds itself obliged to register with a dynamic as low as possible in order to have a clean signal, which saturates and is not sub-module.
I have not yet had the opportunity to test the I / O digital and Midi, stay tuned!
In conclusion: A very decent interface for the price and 4 I / O. It is of course the low end, do not expect too much either!
I should also mention that I use it a lot in the recording of spoken voices or sound effects, not just in music, where perhaps a less fat than other users satisfaction, but satisfaction when same!