Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD Reviews

Great device for it's price

You won't find nothing better for the price

The best interface in this price range

I've experimented with lots of other cheap interfaces and nothing beats this in that price range. Great sound and easy to set up in both mac and windows. Build quality is great.

Essential Home Recording Tool

It has everything you need to start working with sound.

The most successful model, you can record a guitar and voice.

Recommended for purchase.

One of the best audio interface at a very good price

I would definitely recommend this audio interface if you run a home or a small studio.

Two input channels (jack or XLR), very low latency (barely noticeable) and easy to plug/unplug headphones.

There's also the option of direct monitoring for 0 latency.

Tip: Just make sure to install it's drivers which you can find easily online.

Valeu for money

VERY VERY LOW LATENCY!

Great sound, usb powered, no ac adapter connection.

Cheap.

Home studio

This thing is built like a tank. The knobs and buttons feel premium and Windows 10 does not require drivers of any sort,just plug it in the usb port and it's set up in seconds... The sound is good...but I'm yet to purchase better headphones and monitors for my small room studio..

I highly recommend it.

great sound, easy to use

provides very good sound quality and power, outputs quite a lot of power. has 48v for the microphones that need it, also has a switch to dampen input sound if it is too loud which is great.

friends immediately noticed i had upgraded my setup when calling.

I bought this interface in order to help our singer who is very non-technical to be able to record her songs using a mic, guitar and a keyboard.

Preamps sound very decent using a microphone or an highZ instrument. They also accept line level signals.

This interface is an excellent value for money. It operates on all realistic samplerates. Drivers are solid on PC and you don?t even need to install any drivers on Mac.

There?s no control software/app for monitoring and routing, you can only adjust the analog no latency input monitoring vs daw monitoring. But this makes everything simpler for people who are not into technical side of recording.

One downside of this is, in analog monitoring mode, there is no option to pan the signal - the left input is routed left and right is routed right - which may sound strange when you want to monitor analog ipout signal.

At this price, there?s nothing to complain, Just a great interface at great value.

very good budget interface, perfect with Linux

extremely good value, and perfect with Linux (other brands please take note and make UAC-2 compliance a default feature)

Great price, great features

Works as described. A neutral sound for recording at home and will be used on the road for recordings in hotel rooms and such.

Only complaint i might have is the driver. It's working great but coming from the RME eco-system it's a hassle being forced into exclusivity mode in windows. Which means I can't do any other audio playback when having my DAW open.

Build quality feels excellent. I have not had it long enough to really know but it gives a great impression.

If you are wondering if it's worth buying, just go ahead. You will be happy!

Great

I was looking for something not very expensive and with decent quality and to be honest, I did not expect this quality for a cheap interface.

I use it mainly to record at home and I couldn't ask for more.

I do not see any problems it is doing its job.

If you are looking for a small and cheap device to home-record it is the best option.

Cheaper than ever

With a great and solid metal construction this usb interface is perfect for an home studio recording. The Midas pre-amp are pretty good and the sound quality is stunning for the price. Great product.

can't be beaten for the price

For this price point you can't get a better audio interface. The build quality is good, the whole casing is metal and it feels solid. The knobs and buttons have a nice resistance to them. The inputs have a button so you can switch to Hi-Z impedance so you can plug in a guitar or bass which is what I'm using it for, and it sounds good. Not much bad to say about this interface.

I use this interface as a main hub for both recording music and my podcast and as such it has great versatility and sound. It is compact, has really good build quality where buttons are not flimsy as they are in other interfaces (namely Scarlett 18i8 where output button seems cheap), it also responds great.

Only downside is that it does not have midi input on the back.

Would recommend!

I am a biggener on recording and because of its ease of use it helps me a lot to learn and explore things on recording

Pros

Easy to use

Lots of features

High sample rates

Pads

Direct monitoring

Build quality

Price

Cons:

Headphone Will produce shhhh sound when turn all the way up. But you don?t need to and it doesnt affects your recorded audio or sample.

Highly recommended for the price, quality and lots of features. I recommend to use monitor speakers. But headphones is also fine you don?t need too up the volume full because the sound is already loud. I only used almost half the volume.

Perfect for home use

I use this for daily practicing and recording (amateur level).

Works really well with anything I plug into it - no complaints there.

No hiss, weird sounds or anything, crystal clear sound quality.

With this interface I was able to reach 2,5ms latency on 4-year old cheap laptop without any glitches.

The build quality seems very nice and the XLR/jack inputs won't break for a long time.

Awesome

I bought this interface to use for my band recordings. We already have a mixer containing enough channels and for this reason I just need 2 channels on the interface, cause in this way it's possible to record stereo using the main output of the mixer. Although this is the main plane, I'd like to use this device to personal recordings, like bass guitar or guitar and voice directly on the interface input.

For the first impression I need to say that this interface is really interesting, and for this price, I thing it wouldn't be possible to find something better. We have 24 bits, 2 channels, which fits very good to my situation and I'm very satisfied with the Midas preamp performance as well. Besides that, the headphone amp is really good and I hope you can enjoy this interface like me.

I use windows and I didn't have any problem to download and install the drivers, everything is fine. I highly recommend!

Affordabe and great

I needed an interface with two Line Ins for recording my keybaord and to be able to mic my guitar amp with two microphones.

This interface delivers good sound and very low noise (no noise at all if you set the Gain levels right)

One thing I have to complain about; when using only one Line input I get sound only out of one side of my headphones! Which side of the headphone depends which Line In Im using! Would be great if Behringer added a MONO switch to this box as the UCM204HD has it! Any way, I will keep this one as I bought it for recording stuff in Stereo. For Mono I still can use my old U-Phoria UM2 (another great box by Behringer which served me well for 4 years now and still going strong)

Great for the money!

This interface has really been serving me well for past few months. I use it as a preamp for my headphones, as well as to record music. It feels very solid and I would say that it's even on pair with Focusrite Scarlett. Sound is mostly good as well, the only thing that kinda sucks is the fact that it distorts sometimes when I plug my guitar directly into the line in, even though it's not really clipping. I dont know why is this happening, but im sure that a DI box can fix it.

You won't find something better in the price range

The truth is, this audio interface works really good. You will have to deal with a noisy headphones channel at high volumes but it isn't something that cripples the functionality of the device. I would recommend this audio interface for those who have a small home recording project and wish for something better than the cheapest. The recording quality is perfectly fine for this purpose and even for something a little more serious. Don't expect something amazing because it isn't, but like I said on the title, you won't get something better for this price.