Behringer ADA8200 Ultragain 5-stars Reviews

Good value for money

I normally don't like Behringer and prefer to invest a little extra for more expensive brands, but the next item in this category is the Scarlett which is much more expensive. I use the Ultragain to expand my mic inputs on my Scarlett interface for drum recording and it works well.

Only cons:

1. Phantom power is either on or off for all channels at once.

2. The rack attachment things cannot be removed. I mean, you can unscrew them, but there is no cover underneath.

Impeccable on its price

So you got 8 decent mic/line inputs and 8 decent outs. Surely it's nowhere near "professional standard" of >110dB conversion, but it's so usable and so cheap, especially if you just need the line ins. A great product from Behringer!

Does exactly what i wanted it to do

This is the best one you can get for the least amount of money. The only thing that is lacking is pads on the channels but that is no problem if you have more channels at your disposal with pads.

Sounds great, Very sturdy construction and an absoloute bang for your buck

Simple, professional, cheap.

The ADA8200 is a fantastic way to expand the inputs and outputs from an existing interface (provided you have ADAT in / out on your interface already). I'm using mine paired with a Behringer UMC1820, which brings me to a total of 16 XLR inputs and 18 outputs, the pairing works exceptionally well and i'm yet to discover any flaws.

The Midas pre's are really really clean and have plenty of headroom. There is no colouration to the sound, so you get a nice transparent signal straight from the mic. Some sound engineers prefer a more textured preamp to get some character in the mix, but personally I prefer working with a clean unaltered signal. These pre's leave you with a blank canvas to cultivate any sound you want from the signal source. They provide ample gain for my RB500 ribbon mics without any unwanted noise.

Very simple to set up, currently working flawlessly in Windows 10 with Reaper, Just plug it in and and play! Syncing to my interface's clock was easy, I just set the clock source to ADAT In and the two units sync automatically.

If you already have an interface with ADAT and you want an easy and cheap way to get a few more channels, I would highly recommend the Behringer ADA8200. Please don't be put off by the brand... Behringer are good now!

It just works.

I feel like it's not even there and that is the highest praise i could give it.

Using this to record line level signals and with external effect units. Sounds much better than expected at just over 20 euro's per channel!

Don't listen to the bad reviews!

I wish people would understand that this is not designed for single channel preamp stuff like lead vocals!!! Yes, it's flat sounding, but that's what I like about it. I don't care for hyped bass or mid range etc., everybody EQ's later anyway so I don't understand the fuss about having a coloured sound right out of the box. I use my Audient for single channel stuff and the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 + Behringer for drums and multi tracking. For loud sound sources like drums and cranked amps, I can't hear the difference between these midas preamps and the Saffire ones. Maybe on a quiet intimate vocal or subtle strings etc. you can hear differences but it's all about choosing the right tool for the right job. Why blow thousands on something which only gets used on extra toms etc. when you can't hear the difference anyway? It's disingenuous to do an A/B test on something it was not designed to do. The fact that it's ADAT and needs a host interface to piggy back off means that people only buy this because they need more channels for drums and multi-tracking. Nobody is buying this as a single channel preamp for vocals, so comparing singing tracks or solo instruments is pointless. This is an inexpensive expansion purely for when you need more tracks, like tracking a live band or recording drums.

Pros: Easy setup, flat uncoloured sound, quiet preamps, separate line-in inputs on every channel

Cons: There are none at this price point. Anyone who has issues with this has misunderstood its purpose.

Works like a charm.

I use it with RME FireFace - both live and in studio. it's stable, preamp quality is unbeatable at this price point, no noise, clean gain, functional. Would prefer Phantom power per channel... but other that that, no complaints.

Must have

Very good item when you need more inputs or outputs or both. Nice Midas preamps. Solid unit. Very good price and you can connect via adat and everything work correctly. Ada8200 have nice place in my rack.

What can I say, does exactly what it says it does.

This worked perfectly with my umc1820 as soon as I plugged it in.

I use this in my home studio along with a umc1820, and the reaper DAW. Also using the behringer asio driver (will check what version I use) on a windows 10 PC.

No issues at all.

The preamps have a lot of headroom so the lack of built in pads does not prove to be too much of an issue. The preamps were virtually silent and very clean sounding.

Perfect addition to any small home studio looking to record drums or any other multi mic instrument.

Would recommend highly.

Pros:

Very clean quiet preamps

Easy to setup

Very wide gain range

Cons:

Lack of built in pads

It's a mains lead

Delivers around 240 volts in an alternating current all the way from the wall to my amplifier - quite clever really

Unbeleivable for the money

Use this to extend my RME UFX for analog synths and FX returns, completely transparent with nice headroom. Use ADAT light pipe and word clock to sync with RME. Not sure how it would fare on layered vocals or acoustic instruments, but for my application its perfect. Nice one Behringer

Great entry level device

This is a great entry level mic preamp. You shouldn't expect nothing spectacular, but it works as intended. Connected to my Audient id44 it offers a great way to record drum set, sometimes even the smaller bands. Sound leaves a bit to be desired, really nothing special, but it is usable. Also, 8 line outputs is great way to route the signal to a headphone amplifiers (4 x CUE mixes from Audient id44).

It is really good!

I don't know how Behringer does this, but, for this price, this is a blast.

Works like a charm, quality is really good! Unbeatable!

New life for old(er) kit!

I've been using a MOTU 828mkII for years now and I love it, but I never really explored really how much it can do. I added the ADA8200 to the MOTU and now have and additional 8 inputs and 8 outputs on my interface which opens a whole load of opportunities for my studio - I now have the drum kit fully mic'd up.

The ADA8200 doesn't have a lot to setup - I literally plugged in the optical cables between the MOTU and ADA8200, set the clock source (I've tried slaving the ADA8200 from the MOTU with both Word Clock and ADAT Optical and haven't found there to be any difference between them), and away we go (you have to tell the MOTU to use the ADAT channels).

The audio quality of the preamps is great though I'm not using any gain, and the phantom power (which is a single selection, common to ALL inputs) is very helpful for driving a Behringer DI800 at the other end of the Snake 164.

The improvement to workflow was instant - I spend time recording now, rather than messing around plugging and unplugging bits for kit!

This thing just works.

No hassle and quite acceptable sound.

No brainer purchase.

Gets the job done

I use the ADA8200 with a RME sound card in my homestudio.

I've been using it for well over a year & in all that time it has never given me any trouble really reliable easy to connect.

The pres maybe aren't the cleanest but for the price it really gives you decent results without busting the bank.

I only use 8 channels so I haven't tried to connect another unit for more inputs so can't really comment on how it handles that.

Overall I am very happy with the results I get on my recordings & would recommend it to any one looking for a cheap reliable unit to get started recording.

Very satisfied

Im very satisfied with this product. It fits my purpose perfectly. Good price for an excellent product. It does its job perfectly.

I needed 8 more inputs to properly record my drums on top of my existing 8 on my UMC1820, and having the same preamps on both my units felt like a good idea. I've been very surprised at the quality Behringer have been delivering over the past few years and this product is no exception!

Very solid construction, the MIDAS preamps are very natural sounding and have little to no noise.

My only gripes with this product is that it seems to create a bit of a his/hum when I turn up my monitoring volume to max. Barely noticeable 90% of the time, but sometimes it can be a bit annoying. That and I WISH it had inputs on the back and dropped the whole LINE OUT thing on the back.

Still, very much recommended!

Great audio quality

Running this with a Focusrite Scarlett, the pre amps on this unit stand up against it fine.

Would recommend as as a budget extension to record live drums.

Ridiculous

This thing is amazing, it's practically free compared to other pres.

Great sound for the cash, highly recommend.