U-Phoria UMC22 : A great Interface for a fantastic price

Usage:

Cheap songwriting setup - mainly acoustic guitar + vocals.

Essentially a 'set and forget' system for recording ideas etc.

Pros:

It has a reasonably small footprint that, with a bit of jiggery-pokery

I slotted into a spare DVD burner bay.

The mic pre-amp is surprisingly good for the price.

Cons:

ASIO4ALL (on windows) instead of bespoke drivers.

Build Quality:

The knobs have a fairly confident, heavy twiddle feel which is nice.

The stenciled lettering is clear and the led's light up as you'd expect.

Overall the build quality is excellent.

Opinion:

ASIO4ALL have a tendency to have dreadful default settings and are

a real pig to get working, crackle free at any sort of usable latency for

real time monitoring with vst/fx which, pretty much rules this unit out

for a 'guitar' interface. Go for a Line6 or anything with inline fx if that

is your goal.

Where this unit does shine is the build quality and the MIDAS pre-amp.

For the price it's difficult to fault and, for my setup, worth every penny.