Zoom AMS-44 Reviews

Buy It!

So small, so light, so powerful!

I have a Focusrite Scarlett myself and bought this for the school I work in for recording Podcasts. The 4 combi inputs were really appealing! I must say, for the price range I didn't expect it to be so good.

Powered and connected to laptop via the same USBC cable, even when Phanton Power is on. The "streaming" button makes my life so much easier rather than editing each track separately.

Completely portable! A top buy!

Tiny (great) but limited

Four inputs in such a small/cheap package- amazing. Usb-c: great. Music and sound quality: great. If you just want to feed four channels into a DAW like logic and nothing else: great. But there are a bunch of big limitations: functionality wise it is a big step down from e.g. a focusrite.

Cheap plastic lightweight build quality: quite bad.

Not being able to mix input (clicktrack?) with monitor levels is a deal breaker for me.

Not having 48V phantom to power condensor mics is an even bigger dealbreaker.

You cannot mute channels, you cannot choose which channels appear on your monitor/headphone and there is no separate gain for your line out and headphone (there is one control for both which is a big problem in any live situation). Also in 'music' mode inputs 1/2 -> output A, 3/4 -> output B which means you cannot monitor all tracks from one channel which is absolutely unhelpful.

Very nice sound for its price

It is very simple to operate and you can record anywhere very handy you can put it inside your pocket and go anywhere to record. No need for additional power supply the cellphone can power up the interface. Good sound.