All user reviews of 3/5 for the Tascam US-122L

I'd buy this little machine to get lower latency and also to discover at the time, recording with a microphone.

It also motivated me was the connection by USB, all digital anything, something that would make my job easier and with less breath.

UTILIZATION

The installation went without problems for me, although I have seemed long.
Regarding updates to drivers in 3 years I do not see any change.

Now move on to the problem:

Since my purchase I run the install and try it directly and big crunches big surprise or even audio processor overhead.
I stay calm, change hard disk with Windows brand new
reinstall everything.
The I a little better, but pushing the lowest latency, you can not go below 256 ms without big cracks.
I must content myself with a 512 ms 1024 ms project lean and with a more consistent.
Result to make a recording with a guitar amp simulator must not only activate it with just a metronome to stall and play with better latency.
For me it was doable but a colleague with whom I started producing it has been more difficult.
In addition I changed my computer from a small Asus with whom I can walk when I'm not in the studio and compose the tascam Well I am no longer of any use, I said, I can with the sound card in my computer to get a latency up to 256 ms, whereas with the tascam 512ms is already finished for him.
I think I must still be a big setup in order to enjoy a decent latency.

Another test:
My ear and my equipment is evolved from my years of practice and it is that I wanted to use the tascam to record a music concert Reunion.
Basically I made up all my equipment balances all the settings, and then I plug one of the dual outputs of the mixer to the XLR inputs tascam
and I understand the quality of the preamps and converters, big loss of low frequencies, heat well attenuated but not breathing why he is doing well.
The headphone output is a bad quality that it also pushes the gain, treble distorted coming for you gun down the ear.

GETTING STARTED

I returned to the driver of this sound card is not really "adjustable"
On to the choice between 1024 512 256 128 96 ms if I'm not mistaken on the latter.
So you'll understand if problm in low latency bin you switch to a large latency.

OVERALL OPINION

Used for more than 3 years he has rendered great service and allowed me to record my own Compos guitar and started producing other artists.
For the beginning I thought it was great because it there's still quality but to experience it the more you realize what was in his hands.
I do not have that choice again if I had to leave such a product there must be much better.
However, it is highly portable and self-powered so it can be used in full secondhand.
I added that was sold with Cubase 4 so it was a small matter anyway.

I bought this unit at Guitar Center in Hollywood for $199. I needed a means to input audio into my computer for film work.

Solidly built, simple interface, good input options. Attractive in appearance -- so it looks good beside your computer. My computer setup doesn't have space for a full-sized mixer, so the compact size of this unit is a major plus.

When I first acquired it, the US-122 was guaranteed to work with Macintosh computers. It didn't -- at least, not for awhile. Tascam tech support responded quite promptly, to its credit, but I had to download a new driver from their website several months after the purchase, and then suddenly the unit started working. Now it does a fine job, but I felt I shouldn't have had to go through the hassle. Most of the bonus software that comes with the box (Cubasis, GigaStudio 24) couldn't be installed on my Mac G5. Finally, you obviously don't get the number of channels as on a real mixer -- it's not what this thing was designed for.

Looks and feels very well built. The metal chassis feels like it can withstand a beating, even though it shouldn' t have to.

The driver problem is what I had been really concerned about. Looking back, I think I might have been better off spending double the money and getting the Digidesign Mbox bundle, which is tried and true with Mac-based film-production systems. Still, after some hassle, this unit now does work with my computer and is doing its job, so at least I'm finally getting my money's worth.

This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

On board of a seller for the price.
Use voice recording.

UTILIZATION

The utisation is simple I never had any problems, use with Cubase.
No worries at latency.
Regarding the number of tracks that can simultaneously record, no idea, knowing that I recorded the voice.
I do not remember against by having an update?

GETTING STARTED

The installation, no problems, and configuration is fairly simple.

OVERALL OPINION

I used it for 2 years, it was my first audio interface for the price and therefore I did not hesitate.
To start it's not bad, and again.
It can quickly be totally discouraged by the preamps that are really poor. It blows, occasionally crackling.
I think you can do better but much better at the same price (maybe slightly more).
I recommend to summarize, even for beginners.
For example, my record was better with a sound blaster audigy, a small mixer, and an SM58.

Very interesting map with respect to its price. Against it by default has a large, food is on the card and the USB plug is poorly filtered. This means that about a dozen machines and two cards US-122L tested the problem is the same: the audio quality depends on the signal quality of aliments from the USB port 5V. Therefore result cetain mac or PC there are whistles that full agreement on a certian PC hum, etc ... I'm looking for a USB power filter, the inverter 220 is not enough because the power of the PC redégrade signal.

UTILIZATION

N / A

GETTING STARTED

N / A

OVERALL OPINION

N / A

Acer Aspire 7000

UTILIZATION

Easy Installation

GETTING STARTED

This card works very well with the audio software (ACID Pro, Sound Forge, Reason and guitar rig in my case) on the other hand vista you can not play sounds windows with this card, or just play with a mp3 windows media player using the card. which is a shame because normally that can most but can least Tascam does not know the motto apparently

OVERALL OPINION

No I do not have that choice would do as tascam will not update its drivers.

updated drivers, but the preamp has left scorched a year and a half after purchase ..