Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD 5-stars Reviews

Very Good

I would say the only annoying thing is the headphone preamp.

The rest is working excellent.

I use it in my home recording studio.

Брал на репточку. по сравнению с домашней скарлетт 2на2 есть несколько моментов:

-Преампы чувствительнее. если скарлетт клипует на 10ч гейна, на той же гитаре бехр в клип уходит с 9. Но! есть понижение входа, хотя показалось, что частотку и динамику поджирает.

-ИМХО дико неудобная система мониторинга. на скарлетт тумблер вкл/выкл, тут надо постоянно рулями ловить баланс. и возможно из-за этого 3й косяк

-Перегруз на выходе наушников. после 13ч начинает срать в уши. Тестил и в байерах 770 на 250 Ом и в сенхах ХД180. все одно. После 13ч звук перегружается. на скарлет такого нет.

Из плюсов-пара выходов на мониторы, МИДИ, инсерты и конечно же цена. Собрано качественно, крепко, правда крутилки длинноваты. Дрова свои и немного мудреные, чтобы снизить с 48 до 44,1 пришлось через стандартную вин панель "звуки" поменять, а так неактивно было.

В целом 4/5. для того чтобы на репе демки накидать-за глаза, да и в принципе и посводить дома можно.

Perfect for beginners: Best in price range

The features and preamp quality are amazing for the price range. Never had any driver issues, just plug and play. No latency issues. Basically none of the issues you would expect with a cheap interface. Perfect for beginners or experienced producers looking for a spare portable interface

A great little interface for simple audio needs.

Easy setup, no drivers required on a PC.

Very good interface for the price

Its the best audio interface for the money , stable , resistant and solid

Good interface for this price.

Interface work imidatly (after installing driwers on windows 7). It is compact. Sound is really good. I give 4 stars becaise I have problems with backgroun noice. I am really satisfied.

Exactly what I wanted!

Was looking for a cheap audio interface for my new monitors and came across this. Was a bit skeptical at first about the price but when it arrived I was surprised by how sturdy it was and the quality of the sound is phenominal! Definitely would reccomend

Great for a home studio

The casing is great, Pre-amps are awesome, Jack quality is not amazing. This works with every DAW I have tried out of the box, The One with the 4 inputs that my friend got doesn't, so I would say, just get this one if you do not need the extra inputs. Other than that - great studio toy for recording from time to time

Entry level interface

For someone who is just trying to get into this kind of stuff, it's great interface, sounds good and is very reasonably priced, great thing about this interface is combo inputs, allowing you to not only record mic level signal but also instrumental and line. My only thing is about placement of the phantom power switch which is in the back, so not very convenient, especially that it is on the bottom part not top.

Other than that, there is also in my opinion great thing that you have built in 4 outputs (or 2 stereo outputs) that you can patch your sound to, so you can have two diffrent type of speakers. Also a ability to switch the two inputs between mono and stereo is a another good thing. And last, something you won't see much on interfaces these days, classic din-5 MIDI in/out.

What I can also add from my experience is that you should not place your phone near it, it will easily pick up any interference.

Fast.

Very low latency. In Propellerheads Reason, with Behringer asio umc drivers set to 128samples i have 6ms input and 4ms output on i7 5820K (y.2014). Smooth with 16 effects on the way (i use it like virtual rig :))

I also checked it with modern x86 tablet and the Reason. It works great.

Unnoticable noise with electric guitar and mic, unless you record silence.

Great Value Audio Mixer!

Great audio mixer with many different features and options. Would highly recommend as it is great value.

Perfect for small projects

bought this soundcard for a stop-motion project with my kids during the covid lockdown. I actually was very surprised by the built quality and sound. I am used to work with Hi-end studio gear so I did not expect too much. I'm pretty shure you can't find any better for this price. I will use it more than expected.

Enough for me

I need it for recording acoustic and electric instruments. Needed 2 inputs for a mic and direct recording. Needs EQ, kind of on the bright side. Outputs are great for future expansion, oh, and the midi, too.

Amazing

I've been using this for a lot of time now. Metal casing. Very resistant. I'd buy it again.

No tricks

I bought this interface to be used in a home studio for recording saxophone. It is my first audio interface ever.

After watching reviews about it, I decided to spend a little bit more than I originally planned, and buy this interface. The features that sold it to me:

- can mix the monitor input level and the output level

- can pad the input - in case your source is very loud

- 192kHz, 24bit, unmatched in this price bracket

- 2 inputs with the same connectors, in case I want to experiment with 2 mics

So far I found no reason why should I have paid 1,5-2x more on a similar product from another manufacturer. Build quality is cool, its a metal box, nothing is wiggling. It feels like a solid product.

The headphone output has enough power to drive a Sennheised HD-280 at only about 30% level for my use.

I had one difficulty setting it up. I will not mark it up as a fault of the product, as it very likely happens with other interfaces too, but It might drive the uninitiated crazy:

I am using Audacity on windows 10 for recording. The way I do it is that I play a backing track, and record the input simultaneously. At first I got errors trying to do this, which stated that the refresh rates don't match, and was unable to proceed.

In order to solve this, you have to set everything to 192khz, everywhere. Go into windows' sound setting too, for both the input and the output.

All in all, very satisfied with the purchase.

Great Performance/Price Ratio

Really good, a leap of performance between UM2 and UMC204, love it

Good Interface for starters!

If you are thinking about setting up a home studio, this interface is the perfect choice. Great performance at a low cost.

Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD

Incredible interface. Complete in every aspect. Recommended

Great budget interface

It is a workhorse in our theater.

the soundcard works great with guitar rig 5

It was a bit of a hassle to find the right drivers for this card, but when i finally did, the product worked like a charm.