Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD Reviews

The best cheap 2i2 interface

I needed it to record bass, guitars and singing.

Pros:

It does the job very well. Solid built, unique sound and for the bass I prefer this from the other budget 2i2s interfaces. Overall this interface is a very good buy and I recommend it without a doubt.

Cons:

1) As other users have stated, when you use direct monitoring you hear the instrument only in the side of the input. For example when I record from the first input I listen from only the left side of headphones/ speakers and that can be annoying

2) I use ableton as a daw and when I close the sound card driver to listen something else from my pc (outside of the daw), the drivers get stuck and I have to unplug and connect again the interface. This is a driver problem however so it may be fixed someday

Great interface for home recording. Low latency and cheap. Easy installation and setup.

Voice over use

works fine quality its good , can't say anything bad about it

Decent budget interface

It does exactly what it needs to but one thing. The direct monitoring is hard-panned in stereo, meaning that the input to the first channel will be heard in the left and the input to the second channel will be heard in the left. This is my only complaint with this interface. In hindsight, I should have bought the UMC204HD - as it has the option for mono direct monitoring.

However, if you don't need this feature, this is a great budget interface.

Perfect price / quality ratio, great drivers

The interface works very well, and everything seems pretty high quality for the price. The interface is small and easy to carry. The drivers are amazing, I can use this down to an 8 sample buffer with no issues (on an 8 core first gen Ryzen in Windows). The pre-amps are quite good, I would say they're better than the ones on my other small Mackie interface.

great

actually it is a lot better than I expect, I record black/death metal at home, and needed an usb sound card for double mic recording, and I dont think I will ever need something else than this.

good

As a person, doing this music "thing" mostly as hobby this piece of hardware does it for me. I wondered between this and the scarlet one but choose this in the end obviously for monetary reasons. Still for few months usage I've no major concerns or complaints. As I'm still learning and understanding the music system, my only problem comes with the buffering settings when I use my DAW and my regular pc software I often must switch the buffering samples otherwise youtube videos don't start for example. But I guess that's not a problem. Otherwise can't say nothing bad about it - when you have in mind it was twice cheaper than the other ones.

Great Value, if you don't want to monitor your inputs

I bought this to interface between my new sm57 and my PC and well, it's great. It delivers excellent sound quality, it's cheap, has midas preamps and has 2 inputs! What else could you want? Well, the reason this gets 4 stars and 2 stars for features is because when monitoring is enabled as it's a mono input it outputs only out of the left channel on your headphones which is so annoying I can't even say. This is why I'm returning and, like another review I've seen, buying the umc204hd which has a downmix to stereo option as well as many more extra features. I'd recommend if you just want a budget audio interface for your new mic and you don't want to do any recording and/or you don't plan on using the monitoring ever because it is really horrible

Definitely suits the use case of a streamer or gamer or anyone that could benefit from a good quality mic but aren't going to record.

To start recording is a good option.

As a guitarist, I record a lot of parts. This interface does a very good job in terms of price-quality ratio.

Has juuuust enough gain to comfortably drive my t.bone MB57 mic as a voice mic. Of course, I wouldn't recommend using that mic for that purpose. Plenty of gain on tap for instruments, and a pad switch for when the gain is too much.

I suspect it will have enough gain on tap for almost any headphones you can throw at it, my little mini headphones get TOO DAMN LOUD.

The knobs, the whole enclosure feel solid, feels like you can throw it against a brick wall and casually keep using it afterwards.

High high quality

Surprised with quality, metal casing, sturdy, every knob and button feels profesional and good, does everything as expected and described, highly recomended!!

Really nice portable interface

Pros:

- Small and light

- USB powered

- The headphone amp is surprisingly powerful and sounds good too

Cons:

- The "direct monitor" feature considers the two inputs as one stereo signal (the first input is sent to the left output only and the second input to the right)

- I'd love to have a power button

a useful and trouble-free product. met my expectation.

a useful and trouble-free product. met my expectation.

The king of budget interface

This is an amazing little fella for the price. Bought this while waiting for my Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40 to get serviced. The preamps are OK, this is a great unit for beginners that need 2 mono tracks or 1 stereo track. On both Mac and Windows it was plug n play, no driver installation needed. Not much features (I'm thinking lack of SPDIF and direct listening).

Great little box and high quality

Used so well for Cubase and Zoom meetings, syncs perfectly

Great, just great

I got this as my first introduction to recording, this is very easy to use and has great sounding preamps, I've recorded everything from electric guitar (straigt in to protools and miced amps), bass (staight to the pre-amp and miced amp), ukulele (miced), harmonica (miced), vocals and even used it as a recording device form my 8 channel mixing desk using the two inputs as the main, I've done podcasts with it and even took it to the studio where I'm recording my band's lattest EP and had our producer try it and his opinion of it was great, even if you don't record music yourself it's a great tool for working out parts for a song. it's a no thrills interface but it will do the job 10x better than any other on the same price range, you simply download behringers drivers straight from their website plug it in to any usb port on your computer and fire up your digital audio workstation (daw) and you are ready to record it takes less than 10 minutes, I've used it primeraly with pro tools 10 to work out guitar parts for songs I write and it sounds amazing, great buy

5 stars if you account for it being a budget audio interface

It's not going to be the best interface around. but for this price I did not find anything equal. It has good enough sound. good enough gain with minimal noise introduced. just don't expect a wonder cause we aren't paying for one.

A very good choice for the price.

I needed an audio interface to be able to play guitar without my amp. I connect my pedalboard to the input, set it to "INST" and then turn the gain of the respective channel until I reach about -6dB in my DAW. Then I use an IR Cab plugin and that's it. It sounds better than my amp.

The interface is easy to use, the drivers are very good and the price is great.

Just what I needed.

I have been trying to connect my Yamaha keyboard to my laptop via midi for some without success. I came across audio interfaces on the Internet and decided to get the Behringer 202hd. All I needed to do was connect my keyboard to the Behringer using my electric guitar lead using the line out on my keyboard. Absolutely brilliant and now I can record my own backing tracks for myself and our daughter.

The build quality of the unit is excellent. Metal body instead of plastic. Being able to hear the recording using headphones via the unit instead through the laptop speakers is so much better. If you are not concerned about the complications with midi then this is an excellent buy.

Order is delivered smoothly!

I don't have an issue about the delivery and the sound quality of the Behringer UMC202HD is great for beginners who would like to record their songs.

The chassis is perfect and is durable. I love the "built like a tank" description because that is what I want to label these Behringer Audio Interfaces (except for UM2 which is plasticky).