Behringer UMC1820 Reviews

An absolute beast for the price!

So, you get 8 input channels with great preamps, 2 headphone jacks which (if need be) allow you to route a separate mix to each via your DAW, easy real-time monitoring, MIDI IN/OUT, not to mention a variety of other useful buttons, knobs, and ports... all of that for the cost of many lesser audio interfaces? Sign me up!

The sound quality is great. Out of the box, I was having some strange issues witch digital clicking and popping, but they were gone after updating the drivers, so make sure you do that before you panic.

When it comes to output latency, 256-384 buffer size seems like the sweet spot if you are also running some software instruments and effects. Quite standard. A live instruments- and analogue-only setup could probably be pushed even further, but I have not fully tested that.

The only questionable "quirk" of my unit is input 7 making a humming noise even with its gain knob turned all the way down, but the moment I plug anything into it, the noise disappears, so I just make sure to keep it in use.

To sum up, this does not look or feel like a 200-dollar interface – it is solid and packed with features. If you are on a budget, I would definitely recommend this one.

Well Made Device!

This is great interface. It worked without any issues. I love it. It is durable and sounds amazing. I would definitely purchase a second one for live recording. Thank you for a great product.

Super

Amazing for the price!

Excellent Audio Interface.

I actually but the model down from this last year for my son.

It was so good that when I needed a rack mountable version with more options I didn’t hesitate to buy one of this.

Im really pleased with it 👍

Great value

It's practically plug and play on my mac.

The sound is indistinguishable from that of my old (and expensive) RME interface (which couldn't handle the number of synths I've been stacking).

I've never felt a hint of latency.

There's very little not to like - if Behringer's choice of ports is exactly what you need this is probably the best (and at the same time - cheapest) product you can get.

Bang for the buck.

Love the unit!

My only issue with the unit is that it gets ferly warm or even hot while it's working. But other than that It does what it's supposed to do.

brilliant interface

works well, input and outputs are clean

A fantastic audio interface for the price!

I use this for recording drums and it has never let me down. It may be cheap but it's jam-packed full of features, and it does not feel like a beginner oriented product.

Excellent sound quality for the price

I use my UMC1820 for recording music and speech and for playing back surround sound. I use it as a USB class-compliant device on Linux - it was easy to set up and runs under JACK very reliably with no dropouts.

I can't fault it in terms of audio quality - the inputs and outputs are very quiet. The dual headphone outputs and monitoring controls work well for recording with one or two musicians, and it seems to drive "difficult" headphones (e.g. HD650s) happily.

The unit as a whole seems solidly built. Inputs are on balanced XLR/jack combos, which are plastic but are bolted to the panel so they seem reasonably robust; outputs are on balanced jacks.

There are some minor downsides, as you'd expect for the price. The gain controls are a bit fiddly so it's difficult to set levels exactly and it's easy to knock one control while adjusting another. There's isn't quite enough gain to use an SM58-style dynamic mic (although it's quiet enough that you can boost it in software afterwards).

The monitor mix is just a straight sum of the analogue inputs - there's no built-in DSP mixer. The power supply's an external brick, which isn't very neat in a rack. And the channel numbers are right at the bottom of the panel, so they're impossible to see unless the unit's at eye height - I've added some labels to the top of mine!

But overall for the price this is excellent value, and I've been very happy with mine.

Great item, but driver is very bad, hopefully in future they will improve it

Great value for money.

For this price a very worthy addition to any small studio. Good sound print and a lot of I/O.

Great product at a great price

I have used this interface for a while and it has served me well.

The downsides for me are:

Poor quality power supply cable which failed after a while.

Very basic software interface, with no active monitoring on the meters, and no ability to use virtual inputs and outputs in the software interface.

If the software interface can be upgraded to inlude these features, it would be excellent!

Using for audio interface for drum mics.

Beginner level.

At first I thought to buy UMC404, but I just decided to buy 8 input, because now I see that in the future I can add some extra microphone for experimentation

Even if you can find certain information online, I miss the user manual here.

There would be nothing wrong with being a little shorter, and maybe a little taller.

You get more than what you pay for.

This interface is unrivalled in its price point, so it's a must for a growing enthusiast studio. The ins, outs and features are unrivalled for this money, so don't expect stellar quality (sound is by no means bad).

To be honest, my only real gripe with this product is the cheap/ noisy power supply. It means that you need to more careful with isolation/ wiring than you would with a better shielded supply.

Otherwise, this product is a great to have.

good interface

really enjoy working with Behringer product really good price and give a good professional sound

if you start your home studio i will say it's a really good starting point

A simple to use and quality sounding interface.

It does exactly as advertised.

Pros:

Cost, features, footprint, sound quality

Cons:

There is no way to adjust the recording frequency on the actual device.

Great choice

I've used the other smaller version of the UMC INterface.

Great value for the money. Plenty of in's and out's for small studio needs.

The sound quality is good and clean.

In my opinion, a great option if you are looking for an interface with a lot of connectivity at this price point.

Its great for its price

it feels good and i have not had any problems with it

A decent start if you've got some external gear

I've purchased this audio interface mainly for convenience, as I have upgraded from single-channel AI. It is very convenient to have all of the available external gear connected right away (I use two synths, a guitar, and a bass).

Three stars for handling, because I have experienced difficulties with driver installation on windows 10 (maybe even my fault). The soundcard was working great before it started to produce clicking noises (outside DAW as well). The full removal of drivers and re-installation has solved the problem though. Keep in mind that it is mandatory to install UMC Asio driver if you want all of your inputs to be recognized and if you want to be able to play sound on your PC or MAC along with the DAW.

Five stars for features, because definitely at this price point it is the most feature-packed AI. Lots of channels, good sounding preamps, mix between sound from inputs and sound from the DAW (good if you practice instruments and need no latency). Also, I love that headphone outputs are loud and there are two of them.

Sound-wise, can't say that this particular device somehow is better than the competitors at this price point. I think that it should be kind of neutral and this is the point that you do not want it to be colored or something.

Great quality for the price, everything feels sturdy, with no air in the gain knobs.

A fine piece of kit

This was bought as a replacement for Moto 8 PRE, and it is far superior. Low noise, good pre amps. A steal for the price, it really is