Behringer U-Phoria UMC22 Reviews

Perfect for those on a budget

I bought this device for my brothers birthday. He was interested in home recording, so I wanted something that was on a budget but good enough quality that it would give him decent results. This little unit was the perfect fit. Ran perfectly for him in reaper using asio4all. The preamps are a bit thin, but certainly useable with a little tweaking. Fantastic value for money

Great product with great price

Works without the fuss with both, Windows 10 and Linux (v. 5.14.18-100. fc33.x86_64). Rode NT1 mic needs volume up to around 9 (on scale of 10 (same as Focusrite.) This model is using same volume control knob for monitors and headphones, but next model in line has separate controls.

does the job...

It does the job at a demo level for me but my advice is to buy the model up or get a native instruments one. This is a 16 bit unit so not alot of headroom which makes a massive difference if you want quality recordings.

Cannot get it to work on windows.

Won't work on windows for me. Be aware. It's supposed to work on mac but I can't confirm.

Would recomend for the price

This is a very solid product for the price, there are some things that have a little bit of a 'plastic' feeling. But this is expected at the price. Price/quality is really good.

Great thing

This works very well for connecting a microphone up to my computer and recording sax and clarinets. What more can I say? You probably need one if you want to record acoustic instruments into your computer...

Used as a guitar interface

Used it as a guitar interface and for some karaoke here and there. Did its job with no issues. Well worth the price if you are looking for something simple.

It just works.

So, basically, as the legendary Todd Howard said, "It just works", It has everything that I need.

Maybe the only problem is that I'm almost at full volume, but besides this, nothing.

Very sturdy and sounds decent... if you can make the drivers work

Getting a full metal enclosure for that price is amazing.

Ins, outs and all the buttons and features are all one could want from such a small box.

The lack of decent (windows) drivers however is unacceptable and can make this unit absolutely useless.

I (and many others) could only make it work with older drivers that behringer doesn't officially provide anymore. You can google them and find links of the older drivers that people uploaded themselves.

It works still lacks some features tat modern drivers provide.

Nice,small and easy

Very easy to use with good overall sound. Plug and play

Very good for the price

Wanted to do some recording on GarageBand and this fit the bill very well. Plugged it into my Mac Mini and it worked out of the box. No issues with latency. Good choice for the first-timer.

Cheap, useful but buggy

I've had a lot of issues with my particular unit after 3 years, but excellent for it's price would recommend for using a few years

Good as a starter, but not worth the time

The Behringer U-Phoria lasted me 6 months before it stopped working, where my microphone got choppy and buzzing.

Great for the price

This little audio interface is perfect for those who are just starting out in music or for someone who wants to upgrade their setup from a USB microphone.

The sound quality is excellent but the interface does introduce a fair bit of noise. Fantom power is a huge plus, it is capable of driving my condenser mic with ease. Having two inputs is also a brilliant feature, even though the second input is only an instrument input and doesn't support fantom power.

Latency is where this interface falls short. Even with a powerful PC, this interface introduces a significant amount of latency, too much for vocal tracking. There is a direct monitor button which lets you hear your microphone input directly with no latency, which is perfect for when you're on a voice call but there is no way of turning it up without turning up the master volume. If you want to monitor your vocals with effects? good luck. This might just be an ASIO4ALL issue and as far as I have found there are no alternative drivers for this interface.

All that being said, this is an extremely cheap interface and all my issues with it are purely nitpicks. I have recommended this interface to my friends who want to use it for streaming or online calls. You would be hard-pressed to find an interface this good for this price.

Excellent

Excellent sound card and features for it's price. Been working with it for many years and it's solid as always. No hickups whatsoever. Very satisfied.

Good audio quality for the price, but has problems with drivers

PROs

Excellent build quality, excellent sound for the price.

CONs

If you're planning to use this audio interface to monitor guitar FX with low latency real time, avoid this interface. Recommended driver for UMC22 is Asio4All and it is terrible.

Good, starting point

So I'm by no means a producer, engineer or creator, but I do play some fairly intense video games, that require communication with teammates, so I have a good XLR microphone and a desire for great output audio [via an AKG P120 and HiFiMan HE4XX's]. This - among many other interfaces; coupled with a nice headphone amp - fulfilled this role handly, but I've had some issues, particularly with Discord and the Windows drivers, which prompted me to replace it with an alternate unit, which has had the same issues.

Basically, I can join a voice chat and the DAC would capture/send both my output and input audio without issue. Or I could join and it would capture one or the other. This happened particularly when I installed it first, I rebooted, swapped USB ports, swapped USB controllers and the same basic result would happen. I would also try opening software in a particular way [start my music up first for example], but it didn't seem to work. And then it would be magically fixed. I don't know what I did, or how I did it, but it just fixed itself... somehow.

Like I said, I'm no producer, engineer or creator, so I cannot speak to it's functionality inside certain software options, but beyond this incredibly bizarre issue [that, like I said has happened with other devices before and since - and it's definitely something with Windows and Discord, the mic is peaking on the interface], it has worked fine. Both inputs and outputs are crisp, clear and without distortion and for any budding artist, looking for a couple of basic inputs, this does the job well

Good interface, for an amazing price

Amazing interface for a great price. The only thing is I that I would like another XLR socket for input number 2, which only supports 1/4 inch. I would also like a separate volume control knob for the headphone output. Now I have to turn off my studio monitors whenever I want to switch to headphones only.

Great sound card!

Excellent sound card in the price / quality ratio. I don’t see the point in describing it, all the possible pros and cons have already been named. I'm completely satisfied with everything.

Best Value For Money audio interface pretty solid so far no complains