BEHRINGER UMC204HD

Very good sound is very perfect and clean

Luckily I wasn't persuaded by reviews speaking for noises, not good sound reproduction, driver problems, etc and I ordered it after a long search. Well, it worked perfectly with a very-low-entry-level no-name dynamic Mic I had underneath for the start and one general purpose rather (non 'studio monitor' Honeywell Moxie V10 Earphones set) and now I'm expecting another Condenser, 1-click-up regarding the quality and cost, as well as a Behringer HPS3000 and a HPM1000 Studio Headsets (couldn't decide so I got both) and the Presonus Eris 4.5 studio speakers. There aren't any noises at all, and the driver for WIn.10 64 I've used from the site works absolutely perfectly. The only problem is the delay after its Registration, of timely responses, coming by MusicTribe's inflexible established procedure for the Code and Instructions for downloading the provided free DAW and Utilities that are supposed accompanying it with the purchase. For which I'm still waiting. I do not declare Professional in Audio processing but for my recording/mixing and mastering (amateur-passionate) Guitar-Keyboard-Singing needs (which for the moment I'm doing with NCH relative modules), I think the UMC204HD is a bargain, given its price tag. Buy it!

I am writing this review because when I read the negative reviews for this bit of kit, I had a niggle reading them that people had not set up their PC's properly and so the UMC was not performing properly. Now I own it, my niggle seems to be confirmed as it has been nothing but smooth sailing. I'm also writing this for anyone who is looking for a cheap interface that can handle separate channel cueing to headphones for digital djing for under £259+, as that is why I bought this excellent bit of kit. For reference, I am on a windows 10 pc, I7 CPU, 16gb of ram, 4tb of storage and a Nvidea GTX 1060 6gb ram. USB audio interfaces can be a bit pernickety about your pc setup. It varies from interface to interface, and it depends on how complicated the interface is. SO here is what you should do before installing one, this goes for the UMC204HD but it goes for other USB audio interfaces as well. Firstly - Your USB and chipset drivers for your MOBO. Windows 10 SUCKS at these. Windows update is not your friend for this. You need a decent 3rd party driver maintenance software and you NEED to have the best USB and chipset drivers installed. The best of these softwares have a trial mode that allows you to download a driver or 2. So get your USB and your Motherboards chipset up to date. A lot of the bad reviews would not be bad if people knew to do this. If Behringer had tech support, they would tell you to do this. Another thing, it doesn't come with a cable. Don't use that old USB B cable that fits your printer. Get a brand new one like https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081TW2MFK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 , again if people had done this, even less bad reviews. The software. If on Windows 10 get BEHRINGER_UMC_Driver-V5.57.0 from their website. Installing. Firstly to prevent any possible conflicts, disable your motherboard or laptop's built-in sound in the bios. If you have had any other audio interface installed before you got this one, unplug it obviously and uninstall its drivers. If you are paranoid like me you will then install like this. 1: plug the UMC in. 2: install its driver software. 3: when installed unplug the UMC then plug it back in. 4: restart your computer. I set playback at 96000 hz as for a lot of interfaces thats kinda a sweet spot. SO. to basically reply to the myriad of bad reviews that made me think buying this interface was a gamble, I have had no pops in the audio. No dropouts of the interface. I have set Fruity loops 2024 and Stanton Deckadance to use the UMC's ASIO driver and have had no problems whatsoever. If the pc goes to sleep it still works when its back awake, dont have to unplug it and plug it back in. just some software needs to be restarted. If you're a digital DJ this unit is the best thing you can find for the price range. It has 4 outputs, so you set 1 and 2 as your main and 3 and 4 as your monitor. Works like a charm. Only quirk I have found is that the front panel volume pot doesn't affect the volume coming to your speakers if you put phonos in channels 1 -2 . no, you need to put them in the main out for the volume pot to have an effect. That means you either need a twin quarter-inch jack lead with the other end being what you need for your sound system, or quarter-inch jack adapters for your phono lead. I saw buying this as a gamble because of all the negative reviews, but I am very pleased with this piece of kit. I hope you will be to.

Super produit! Très bon rapport qualité prix

I should have bought this earlier. I really regret not buying this sooner.

Great

Utilizzo l'UMC204HD da circa sei mesi e posso affermare con certezza che il rapporto prestazioni/prezzo di questa interfaccia audio USB 2.0 è difficilmente replicabile nella stessa fascia di mercato. Sul piano della costruzione meccanica, il chassis in alluminio pressofuso garantisce una schermatura efficace contro le interferenze elettromagnetiche, mentre gli encoder Alps assicurano una risposta lineare e ripetibile nel controllo del guadagno. I connettori combo XLR/TRS sono di qualità superiore rispetto alla media della categoria. Il punto di forza tecnico dell'unità sono i preamplificatori MIDAS, mutuati direttamente dalla tradizione delle console broadcast. Offrono un EIN (Equivalent Input Noise) estremamente basso, una risposta in frequenza piatta e un headroom generoso che permette di gestire segnali con dinamiche elevate senza incorrere in clipping prematuro. La conversione AD/DA a 192 kHz/24-bit garantisce un'ampiezza di banda audio ben superiore al range udibile, riducendo al minimo l'aliasing e preservando l'integrità timbrica del segnale in fase di acquisizione. Il monitoraggio diretto a latenza zero via hardware bypass esclude completamente il round-trip attraverso il DSP del DAW, eliminando la latenza percepibile durante il tracking. Abbinato a driver ASIO con buffer settabile fino a 64 sample, consente sessioni di overdub senza compromessi sul feedback in cuffia. L'implementazione driver ASIO/WDM su Windows è stabile e ben ottimizzata: nessun dropout, nessun glitch anche a frequenze di campionamento elevate. La compatibilità class-compliant su macOS consente l'utilizzo plug-and-play senza driver proprietari. In conclusione, l'UMC204HD rappresenta un'interfaccia con specifiche da fascia media a un prezzo entry-level. Per chi lavora in registrazione multicanale, podcasting professionale o produzione musicale domestica.