U-Phoria UMC22 : Good, starting point

So I'm by no means a producer, engineer or creator, but I do play some fairly intense video games, that require communication with teammates, so I have a good XLR microphone and a desire for great output audio [via an AKG P120 and HiFiMan HE4XX's]. This - among many other interfaces; coupled with a nice headphone amp - fulfilled this role handly, but I've had some issues, particularly with Discord and the Windows drivers, which prompted me to replace it with an alternate unit, which has had the same issues.

Basically, I can join a voice chat and the DAC would capture/send both my output and input audio without issue. Or I could join and it would capture one or the other. This happened particularly when I installed it first, I rebooted, swapped USB ports, swapped USB controllers and the same basic result would happen. I would also try opening software in a particular way [start my music up first for example], but it didn't seem to work. And then it would be magically fixed. I don't know what I did, or how I did it, but it just fixed itself... somehow.

Like I said, I'm no producer, engineer or creator, so I cannot speak to it's functionality inside certain software options, but beyond this incredibly bizarre issue [that, like I said has happened with other devices before and since - and it's definitely something with Windows and Discord, the mic is peaking on the interface], it has worked fine. Both inputs and outputs are crisp, clear and without distortion and for any budding artist, looking for a couple of basic inputs, this does the job well