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i always see people using scarlet fuscorite audio interface but no one talks about or uses ssl2 but it is insanely good especially with more amp and insane with sm7b

Your video is fantastic! I have a question for you. I'm an amateur just getting into recording, and I recently bought an excellent microphone, the OC818, mainly for podcasting. I also need to live stream, so I need loopback functionality. I'm looking for a good audio interface for this microphone. What would you recommend under a $1000 budget? I hope you can reply, thanks!

Maybe you could test a RME something.

I can’t believe I was going to drop 300 for a Motu m4 … I think I’ll get the behringer umc404 now…

thanks for the video, after 8 years im gonna buy the audient and replace my 1st gen scarlett

Awesome video Thanks ❤

Great work. I'll go for the UMC204HD for home use, thank you!

I wished I saw this video before I bought my interface - however I am quite satisfied with the Volt 276 for my small MPC setup

If you're on Linux in particular, you should pay attention to number of periods per buffer, the default is very high and changing it is not very obvious in DAWs like Bitwig, especially when using Pipewire/Wireplumber. The default is quite high iirc which causes high latency, the rule of thumb is to set it to 2 or 3, maybe 4, iirc 3 works best for most people, me included. This is a kernel setting for handling block devices, configurable through Alsa (or indrectly through e.g. Wireplumber or when using Jack with qjackctl), it also exists on Windows but there it is set to 2 by default and doesn't cause any issues there.

I’m trying to understand what causes a pinched audio also what exactly pinched means ?

I cant imagine the amount of time you had to put into this video. Great job

Well I'm going to have to upgrade my first gen focusrite scarlett 2i 2 then, after almost 10 years of use hahaha.

most excellent and informative video. Thank you. Any chance you have had any experience with the zoom R24 recorder ( as an interface?)

Bass is too heavy on the voice over, its like the loudest fm radio broadcast. Need to tone it back a bit. Your highs aren't high enough all that is coming through is a lot of mid and low voice and sibilance everytime you says ess and cee. Its not beautiful, it's grating to listen too.

You enlightened me and kept me from making a costly purchase based mostly on the “Neumann pedigree”. thanks! subscribed.

The SSL 50x recording is strongly different to the original. Reviewer has cloth ears.

fantastic video! what mixer du u use?

That was fascinating.

So, if I'm correct, it seems like you need a preamp in order to optimize your signal to noise ratio. Or can you do this just by setting the gain on an interface?

Neither Yamaha nor Steinberg were represented... nor were Zoom, Arturia, RME, Tascam, Native Instruments, Elgato, Universal Audio, Black Lion, to name a few...

helpful guidance - thanks

Thanks of your video ! Love it ! - May I know what are the best choice for in the box mixing only at 32bit - 192KHZ ? no need for any recording. - Maybe a DAC will do here ? but last time I try one - I had an hard time using it with my DAW - any experience on this ?

Which Audio interfaces can I use without requiring drivers or software.... essentially plug and play... this isn't an issue on my personal laptop (Mac)... but I would also like to use with my work PC (Windows) however I don't have admin rights, so unable to download software or drivers, but would really like to upgrade my audio quality for conference calls and presentations.

What? No Onyx Producer.

When will the chart on your website be finished? It's missing a lot of information

From an engineering standpoint, the headphone output level to mic input distortion correlation is probably caused by a non-optimal internal power supply design. Small interfaces like this often use internal boost-buck converters to step up the voltage coming from the USB or some other data link interface to a higher, dual polarity supply, usually +15V and -15V. These power rails are often used in common by all the analog audio circuitry, so both the headphone amp and mic inputs are internally run from the same power rails. When the headphone amplifier output is delivering a high amount of current into the headphones, this can cause the common power supply voltage to "sag" and drop below +-15V, causing the mic preamps to clip earlier because now their signal can't swing the entire voltage range that it was designed to.

Thanks for this test but there is a small issue… just because you can’t hear the difference, it doesn’t mean there is none. Flip the phase of one of recordings and put an analyzer on the output and you well see/hear what’s different…

Great video! Important thing to note is that the Audient iD card is great for Mac, but close to useless for Windows users. Simply because it has a hard time switching between sample rates. You work in your DAW, and would like to alt tab to listen to some audio from Spotify, Chrome etc? Nope, not happening. Have to restart your computer for that. I tried endlessly to solve this feature, with no luck. Ended up selling the card. My UA Volt has no problems with this.

I think the power supply is struggling when maxing out the headphone output

Impressive video well done.

Fantastic channel. New sub.

This is true, "gold standard" video - all useful content, no nonsense. Great stuff!

Great. Much appreciated. I only wish you could have included the RME interfaces in your chart and analysis.

Camera lense analogy is spot on. Both cases involve recording information contained in temporal waves for later recall. Both cases have the risk of adding noise to the signal too! This is quite the informative vid. Thanks.

I think the new antelope interface looks swell.

Thanks for the info. So if I understand this correctly, for guitarists who want to hear the effects they're playing with, there's no way to eliminate audible latency without connecting a mixer or a reamp box for analogue monitoring? I'm still not sure how a reamp box would help with latency, as I thought the purpose of a reamp box was to convert the line level signal from the interface into a Hi-Z/instrument-level signal that an instrument-level input, such as a guitar amplifier, expects. How does that reduce latency? PS do you have a video showing how to freeze tracks in a DAW?

Hi, I just found your video and I want to purchase the behringer 204 or 404, my point is, does the behringer has loopback feature? bcs I need the behringer for doing some tutorial that needs to connect with obs, I had um2 and it’s difficult to do the tutorial bcs my DAW sound didnt captured on OBS.

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Good video !! Oh yes, the UA had a wider midrange and handled the K's much better LOL.

Hay have you tried the new Connect 2? I'm sure it's like the 6 You didn't mention the fact the Connect 6 is Apple cirtified and that they can charge your fone.

Nicely done, thank you very much for the education here, huge value add, much appreciated!

Excellent, indepth review!

Some Issues need to be present for there to be a difference. Sometimes it's that the issue may not exist, isn't changable at that stage or needs a different approch. Nice video though.

me looking at my steinberg ur22 watching this xD

Also another disadvantage of software for us the blind is that we can't use it if not written in a way screen readers can read. hince why the Evos are kinda popular. FocusRight is getteing better at this. Who knows about Lewitt.

Hey, I am looking into a recording setup for my piano in great quality. Also, I have online classes with my teacher. Therefore, I want to record 2x SM57 microphones and a RODE Wirless GO for my voice to transfer both piano and my voice to ZOOM. I'm looking into the Focurite Scarlett 2i2 4th gen., Behringer UM204HD and the Steinberg UR22C. I'm wondering if those are actually sufficient to record 3 mics? To hear him talking I use Airpod Pros, because of the transparency mode

Arturia??

I wanted to replace my Steinberg U22 because I don't like the pre-amps and did know how to start looking for another Audio Interface since there are so many. Found this video and it was A PERFECT analysis. I am so appreciative you took the time to do these test and post for public use. Thank you so much. Outstanding work, outstanding job.

I bought a PreSonus Audiobox iOne for my bedroom for $95.00 .. and to be honest it sounds no better or worse than my much more expensive RME Babyface Pro or Apogee Duet. 🙄

Ah and as for tests. Same goes for batteries. A lot of what Zoom clames is just take the recorder out of the box and record.