Behringer ADA8200 Ultragain Reviews

Does the job!

Do you have an interface that you love? Do you want to expand with ADAT in? This is the jam, right here.

The preamps are okay. The latency when using as an interface is serviceable, but that's not the draw here: it's the DAC.

If you want an ADAT expansion with pretty okay preamps and a killer conversion, this is your box.

Cheap but effective interface

I bought this to add to a UAD system to get an extra 8 channels into my UAD system via ADAT ports. It does just that! The midas pre amps work fine and it integrates well with my system. Needs a word clock connection from the main UAD interface.

Bang for the buck

Bang for the buck.

For the price and the functionality you can't really go anywhere else but Behringer. Although I can not say anything about the pre-amps since I bought it only for expanding my Babyface outputs via ADAT and this the ultra gain does phenomenally well. I was worried about the quality but after a few tests the difference from the analogue signal and the Digital was almost 80 percent identical. This is why I gave it a 4 starts because as for a mastering studio the A to D converter might not be the best option. For a home studio, it works like a charm.

great bit of kit

works exactly as id hope it did

No complaints

Comparing with ADAT converters, I do not sense any difference. Operation is pretty straight forward and easy - just a few knobs and no software "marshes", so integration to each project studio should be quick and pain-free,

Great Unit

Love what it does sorted the channel expansion

Awesome

I really love this unit, I used on my Yamaha 01V96 and works pristine

Great Bang! Little bucks.

For the price, this is an absolute no-brainer.

Very good pair with UMC1820

I bought it to expand UMC1820 to it's I/O limits and it worked fine.

Great improvement from the previous model

I'm super satisfied with this preamp, I needed 8x8 clear channels, with no fuzz or coloration of any sort.

Compared to the previous ADA8000 this model has better preampss for a cleaner sound, and since I like to put analog simulations/saturations in my DAW this is perfect.

The only drawback is that you can't mux the ADAT channels and go to higher sample rates such as 88.2/96 etc.

Other than that, go get one, it's the best way to get extra 8x8 channels out there!

Very good expansion for recording drums

This added 8 more channels to my Focusrite Interphase, allowing me to record up to 12 channels!!!

Only problem is, that there is some clipping and cuts happening every couple seconds, I have already tried all kinds of settings and it keeps happening.

Might want to upgrade in the future, but this has definetly allowed me to record drums that sound professional overall!

Has worked flawlessly

I've used this as the ADAT master through a Scarlett 18i20 and everything works perfectly on Windows in Ableton. All the recordings seem absolutely fine, no hiss, clicks or any imperfections whatsoever. The only thing I would say is due to it being a budget unit, it could be possible that the gain of each channel is not uniform. However, no matter what unit you are using, your gain staging approach should rule this out as a problem

Perfect

A great ADAT to expand your inputs/outputs. The only thing I would like on this would be a little lock in the pots in the middle position to help when using channels as stereo pairs.

great for cheap expansion

I combine these with the focusrite 18i20 2nd gen.

It's a great pairing, offering cheap yet decent IO

The ultragain preamps are noticably noisier than the focusrite 18i20, but for interfacing line level inputs at sensible gain settings, it's not that big a deal.

Actual professionals will probably steer away from this, but for an amateur with standards, its totally fine.

Great bargain

Great bargain for the price. That being said, the problem for me is that it is not possible to bypass the preamp stage. So if you want to connect to line in, you still have the preamp stage turned on.

I run a bit of outboard gear so the line stuff is important for me, specially as the extensions are for me for that purpose.

The pre's on their own are okay, and could be used to record, but don't expect them to add any magic ether.

meeeeeh. It's alright, nothing too fancy. Can extend your I/O. sounds alright, not too cheap, not too expensive. good for live applications. However, the rack mount ears dimensons are waaay off. I struggled to get it mounted on my setup.

Unbeatable value.

Quite adequate for a home studio, I use it for some outboard gear.

Noise level is low, especially as I use at line level for sends and returns to outboard gear.

I don't use the mic pres so can't really comment. For pres I've an LA 610 Mk 2 or I use the Antelope pres on my interface (Discrete 4) The Behrenger unit gave me the extra inputs I needed at an incredible price.

Good enough, considering the price

This is the cheapest 8 I/O you can get, and it does it as good as one can expect, considering it costs 1/4 of the next possible option (octoPre)

I haven't noticed any problems with the sound in particular but one thing which should be considered is that the gain knobs are not exactly matched, if you are setting up a stereo pair you might have to set the gain slightly differently.

Behringer ADA8200 Ultragain

Apart from being a very nice "boy", he has a very good sound and is easy to work with! Congratulations!

excellent product

I bought this to get some extra inputs for my audio interface. It does the job nicely, no problems so far.

pros:

easy to use

nice sounding preamps

cons:

none yet