All user reviews of 4/5 for the Steinberg UR824

Steinberg is a company with a long history in the music market so I was interested in their products.
It's a very good interface, the preamps and converters are good. But if you buy this product it means you demand quality and you have surely a channel strip or an external preamp to have quality recordings.

I use it with W8.1 (which isn't the best for computer music, in my opinion) 16gb RAM, i7n 256ssd 1tb DD

UTILIZATION

The drivers are stable, I use it with cubase 7.5, I got the pack! It's great
It has a good latency, it can take up to 20 tracks with lots of plug-ins and VSTIs (I can make the CPU burn), but it doesn't complain. I usually work at 48kHz/24 bits.

GETTING STARTED

It works fine with Cubase, FL, Reaper, it's pretty sturdy. It doesn't produce any noise as a DI or with dynamic mics. I think it's a crime to use the internal preamps for a condenser mic, because you'll never get a decent sound. You'll need an external preamp, like with all other interfaces!

OVERALL OPINION

It's the best option at this price point, together with the saffir (I have heard pretty good things about it)! If you like cubase there's no point in thinking it twice.. You'll have a solid audio chain, you'll only need a preamp that costs twice as much LOL

This interface is rackable using 1 rackspace, it connects to my desktop computer running Windows 7 by a USB cord that is on the back of it. The UR824 is one of the better interfaces that Steinberg has came out with due to the preamps built into it. It comes with Cubase AI software and the driver disk to run it with Windows systems or Mac systems. It also comes with 3 plug ins from REV-X.

UTILIZATION

This interface records at 24 bit/96 kHz and has very low latency monitoring. Using this interface with just about any microphone will get at least a decent quality. I have used it with about 6 different microphones so far. The mic that I use the most with it though is my Blue Bird microphone mainly because that is my favorite mic to use for guitar tracks. This interface gave me everything that I needed right out of the box to start recording.

GETTING STARTED

The UR824 will not color your sound or take anything away from your sound. Pretty much whatever you are recording will come out exactly the way that it sounds as you are playing it. One thing that I have noticed with this interface is that after it is on for long periods of time I have felt it getting very hot. I am not sure if that was supposed to happen but there really isn’t a cooling system within it so there really is no way around it. But it has never had any issues due to the heating; it just worried me because I don’t want to damage the board.

OVERALL OPINION

This interface is well worth the money spent and I recommend getting it if you need to record multiple tracks simultaneously. The Steinberg UR824 interface gave me the sound that I wanted with no effort at all. There are LED lights on the front to signal options and the knobs are built well.