All user reviews of 2/5 for the Tascam US-122

I go in the Detailed mails above.
For me, the big advantage of this card is clearly the power supplies phantoms, which are expected to have a little stud portable.
When it works, that sounds pretty good, so I put almost a note here (I like the idea).
a little play in the knobs / USB all the same.
and clearly, c too unstable.

UTILIZATION

The big problem is that with the laptop on which I tried (via usb controller), the card has only two hours walk properly. it seems that the problem comes from lack of power supply in the card. impossible to make it work properly registered, and the map is not always located in the boot.

GETTING STARTED

Therefore, it's a catastrophe, the hardware seems to work randomly, and comes very easily to crash my system. Moreover, the manual states (loosely) that some controllers they have caused problems. the worst is that it seems to be working well, but not for long.

When it works, 4 or 5 apps in reading are not a problem, but the ADC are not found.

a bonus even when the draft alsa driver for linux seems quite advance.

OVERALL OPINION

Used less than a week, and I think we'll stop there.
the card seems frankly unstable.
damage, the idea was like, and for a sum not too high ...

I needed a map to record not too CHRE BMD (something not too prtentions so) for my group: 2 between me enough to rcuprer battery pr mix on a mixer and pramplis Intgr should allow me to register then sparment vocals, bass and guitar (later withdrawals soft). Moreover, as I had to carry and use it on multiple PCs, a USB connection seemed to be a good choice.
The tascam rpondait all these needs and especially in its price range, it's only equipped with silent pramplis Intgr.
It is essentially a matter of budget and mobility led me to choose what SPECIFICATIONS MODEL with (24-bit / 48 kHz) are not too got the day with plenty maps 24bits/96 Khz. APRS is all about needs

UTILIZATION

Installation is fairly simple as most USB peripherals.
The configuration of the card is not very complicated, so given the limited rglages foun: one can simply activitdsactiv the audio stream (to allow the bandwidth to the south) and r Gler buffer size.
The fact that there is not a ton of options is not at all because the card works Gnant trs well without a lot of tweaking parameter.
The manual is pretty clear ... but it is only available in pdf ...
A point when even trsngatif: the dsinstalleur is anything but clean: it leaves open the file up with a panel in the control panel that is no longer there. Rsultat our friends tascam explains in a note as to transfer the rest, it must be done by hand, the worse they do not give the file names but advise the use of search windows ...

GETTING STARTED

I had no problem of stability or compatibility of the drivers (I installed the latest version IMMEDIATE site tascam). Apparently they are being updated from time to time.
I mainly use SONAR for recording with a lot of virtual instruments. Latency is always obtained infrieure 10ms, this level, no time limit seen in the game with a MIDI keyboard, for example.
For the number of tracks, I have not worked with over 6 tracks in reading and 2 (mono) recording (the card has only 2 inputs ...). Any fawn, this settings has more do with the power of the machine or squenceur.
In use, the card has been fairly stable over a growth record of 4 hours, I had a single dropout in sonar. on the other hand, in use on Windows 2000 multimedia card has a rvl be Calame: cuts his ds that the pc is too sollicit (scroll a web page type) and no matter what the size of the buffer.
XP is much better but still cuts from time to time (you will tell me that is not like a sound card to play mp3s but the diffrence in quality is such a relative intgre sound card you want to use more than a
Speaking of quality of its precisely the tascam converters do not worth sr MODELS upscale but they do a good job and if this is your first hardware a shallow, IMMEDIATE sentire you the difference.
For cons, the pramplis are a little weak people, is compensated on a one vote, but on a guitar part live sound is "soft", you lose normment in brightness and it is not putting a soft kind of returns that amplitude a.
I t's enough on this point because of prsence pramplis jou was a lot of my choice and I glimpse in the end I would be obliged to add a case of direct or external prampli.

Now for the things that upset: my copy of a default tascam 122 possde innaceptable When I put the headphones back (and the drummer get along, it takes at least a), the also records from it. Rsultat once the track amplifies means trs clearly sent the metronome click in the headphones. In short the card is totally unusable.

I e-mailed tascam whether this silent problem rpertori (another member of Audiofanzine had exactly the same) and it was only a s Series borked. In this case I just changed the card. My application is still not rponses and seeing the many problem that people encounter with this card, I finally DCID of change against an other models.

O The shop I made my purchase so refers to the map dfectueuse tascam of Service: APRS rsultat two weeks after sales service has given no new and responsible is unreachable at tl phone.

Frankly this card is to play Russian roulette: if it works, it makes things right for its price range (o to 7, for the note) but if it fair, do not expect you to tascam help (wish to under 0 but good use is not to judge on the VAS).

OVERALL OPINION

I tried it one week and did two recording sessions with.
The quality is correct ... for the price. The one and only default is that tascam does not respect its customers by knowingly selling what for me is very much like a borked SERIES, by not not meet the requests for information and then making fun lss customers with a sav absent subscribers (the store, which shall remain nameless, I also suggested that the lack of tascam Ractive does not surprise and it's the polished version of what they told me)
If c'tait again, I would take a PCI card (type delta 44). If you need mobility of the Audiophile USB is the same price but it does not pramplis (given the quality of the tascam pramplis basically you lose very little, as SAVE a little and take real pramps) to the slightly more expensive firewire 410. AND M-Audio, the sav rput is not for nothing, I was rponse my questions in less than an hour.

Recording and impeccable sound reproduction
recording vocals
Portable XP version familaile
nothing but a conection to an omnidirectional microphone trs good quality.

UTILIZATION

No
not
yes
no manul

GETTING STARTED

Yes
I do not because I did not know how it's done.
wavelab for recording
no
this is not the goal, e want to record in a single track

OVERALL OPINION

For 1 year
all but one of great importance to me: Recording is still low trs, yet I put the volume of the tascam thoroughly! (I have to change the gain for each time a correct record)
Yes the card in an echo indigo with which I encountered the same problem
Well
No, but I do not know yet what to choose as external sound card for my laptop because I just want to record and transportable in a single track DIFFERENT places.
Can you advise me?

I bought this card to record some guitar riffs and my nasal voice, and twelve o'clock a few things just to see what will make the compound in preparation. Was all that was needed on this board I / O Mic / Line preamps, noon and connected via USB (I had no firewire at the time) ... Nickel for my pentium 4 1.4 G with 256 RAM (bus!) over a gigabyte year pèbre ... On which I plugged my beautiful (in fact it is not for me) keyboard "Yamaha Music Station" (hehe)

UTILIZATION

Install easily with my old PC, so the old trick (see above) ... The problem is that for mixing it was getting light, so I made a fart Gigabyte K8N SLI with an AMD Athlon 64 3000 + and 1GB of ram ddr 400 ... And there was the beginning of the end ... Installation galley: I have installed at least 10 times the drivers following to recognize the sound card ... Its rotten cracks that make me very uncomfortable crazy ... update drivers tascam: there's only one and nothing changed ... XP update: sp1 did not change, either sp2 (sp3 heu. .. I wait or I blow up the tascam sav ...)
In short, I think there is a problem with the NVIDIA nForce4 chipset

GETTING STARTED

Driver not stable with NVIDIA nForce4 chipset, and finally his sizzling horribly ... it seems to work well with Intel (what I had before) ...
The driver is not updated to version 3.30 tascam since that is more than a year ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use for 1 year, I like his mouth with the blue banner, but I'll have to transfer because it rotates with the chipset of my motherboard, unless tascam answer me before.
With experience I will buy a firewire external sound card with external power supply ... Genre presonus firebox
They've drunk tascam
New! A little research in the record, it is written in small italic, the sound card is designed for use with the standard USB "Universal HCD" and has problems with the USB standard "Open HCD" (the one I obviously ) ... That's where the problem is! I still go down my notes ...