Audient iD44 4-stars Reviews

Good choise for recording

I had some bugs with configuring this device, but in mostly cases - perfect choise

Each level is small

Compared to the Apollo Two or AudioFuse, the HA and headphone amplifier are less powerful, and the rated output is lower, so you may have trouble adjusting and calibrating the level depending on the speakers and meters you connect.

I couldn't use the DAW THRU function to calibrate my VU meter(Hayakumo Forma) and I had to use one CUE.

The sound quality is high resolution and low density, but you can see the sound field far away.

It is precious that it has an insert terminal among desktop type products!

Good but could be better

Let me start by saying that this is a great interface. Clean and professional sound. There is no jitter, if you're reamping a guitar amp for example, you can literally record the same thing twice and get 100% the same signal.

It drives speakers and headphones well, very detailed and flat sound when monitoring.

That being said, some things about it bother me.

The guitar DI is too bright. This isn't a problem when using virtual amp sims. But when reamping the sound just isn't accurate. The DI sounds great with bass guitar though.

Secondly, the preamps are also bright. In a hipstery, airy sort of way. Think Ed Sheeran.

While the sound is smooth and good for acoustic stuff, as soon as you need a fat rock sound, the interface just can't do it. All mics sound spacious and airy even when close-miking.

So while I like this interface, I don't love it because the tone doesn't always suit the song.

Audient ID44

Nice sounding preamps, pretty good conversion, but, as all Audient products it gets hot. I don't know why Audient cuts corners like that!? Other than that it has insert points witch are extremely useful and pretty good drivers. no glitches in win 10 pro with usb C. I use it as a mobile recording interface.

Not there Yet

I ordered one of these to replace my Steinberg UR44.

Sound quality is excellent for normal playback. I record at 96Khz and 1048 buffer. My DAW of Choice is Presonus Studio 4 Pro. At first I got a lot of clips & pops with this interface. I had to re-install drivers / switched between USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 inputs. Now running into USB C input. Steinberg UR44 runs much smoother. The mixer interface is also much better with my old steinberg. At least they include some DSP mixer effects like compression and reverb. I must admit the pre-amps are quite clean and smooth sounding. If I didn't have to pay all the courier cost to send it back I would have. I will do a follow up in 30 days.