They do, but its sold under a different brand and named UMC202HD. But its uses the same ADC/DAC and is internally very suspiciously similar to the scarlet.
@@lambda7652 it's bhringer. Prob just a rip of the 2i2. I bet they could sell the solo for around 50 and still make a profit. Its strange cuz focusrite is a well known budget brand name so you'd think they would want to show that
For 2 years now, been watching and learning from this dude about microphones and audio interfaces! If I make it as a rapper one day, be sure it'll be due to the fact I watched a channel that helped me setup everything easily haha! Love your videos man, so detailed and well made. Just thanks a lot, appreciate it.
This POS died on me after 3 months. It just stopped sending signal to DAW (I tried it on Pro Tools and Audacity). I can hear my bass and the playback in my headphones but it just doesn't record anything. I tried in on 2 PCs - same issues. NOT recommended.
I have the M-Track Duo and I don't have the gain problem at the very end--it's a consistent increase. I also like how quiet the preamps are relative to many others. However, due to the sample rate, I am going to upgrade at some point. I really enjoy your in-depth reviews and humor. Thanks for doing this video.
@@pin1771 yes it does xD, motherfucker is kinda hard to kill or I'm just good at keeping things, but ya can't do hi-res audio with it tho, but it's good enough just consider everything that this channel has said about it too.
Thanks for this review. Looking to buy something like this for my daughter so she can play around with her acoustic-electric guitar and add a mic to sing some songs. Appreciate the effort you put into this.
I bought one (used) today for £23, so got the December 2023 drivers; the input settings in Windows are now offering 16/24/32-bit, all at 48Khz. The input gain dial is giving me a massive leap between 9-10, so I doubt I'd turn up that far with no clip protection. I wish they'd put a simple limiter in the firmware, my Tascam DR70 field recorder has a limiter on all 4 channels.
Loved this part 7:22 I have the umc22 for two years because of your review! I have a friend that is getting the same one soon because I recommended it but should he buy this instead of the UMC22? The UMC22 is a few euros cheaper but thats it. He is just using it for a single mic.
I’m debating between M-Audio Track Solo or UMC22. Which one do you think is better? And what do you use to record the drums dude, they sound amazing!!!
@@Podcastage I love your videos and I bought umc22 which was very nice for my simple conceder microphone. After some time I saw a review of Worker bee and I adored it so I bought it. When I connected it with phantom power on I got light on worker bee but no signal and I wanted to ask you if it's possible that worker bee has any connection issues with umc22. (I ask you that cause my other conceder mic works fine).
Honestly, if it can power the sm7b like that, I think it's fine. I could barely hear it using my apple "dirty buds", and I think that's gonna be how a lot of people will listen All I would need is post processing, but if I can't hear the noise with my dirty buds, I don't think people will hear the noise with some stream background music.
Always a good day when Bandrew uploads! This was definitely the definition of budget audio interfaces, loud pres, not very well built, a weird gain dynamic, I'll stick to my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 second gen
@@bigfloppa3835 No, not necessarily. There are many objects sold at a very high price on the market that are surely well-packaged, heavily marketed but in fact poorly built, fragile and unreliable. It goes from perfume, to clothes, to even cars. Sellers just make HUGE margins on these.
I'm just beginning to dabble in voice over and similar audio work, and I've decided not to purchase any interface right now since I remembered that my Zoom H4n is perfectly serviceable as an interface. But if I were in need of a "get-by" interface, I would go with this A-Audio unit based on this review and the overall quality and integrity of Podcastage reviews in general.
For me this is the worst interface, I purchased it and used for around 1 week and got a lot of issues with it, it's also really slow. It's also limited to 16bit which I thought will be ok but It's so not, I got back to my old one, Line6 UX2 , still rocks.
What do you suggest for occasional guitar recording for Instagram upload (at home)? The price gap between UM2 and M-track Solo is a lot in my country. So if they aren't that different, would you recommend UM2? Since both are 16bit/48Khz.
My gain signal keep showing red light since the first time i plugged to the usb. And the result input is distorted. The gain control doesnt help it always on red light. Anyone can help?
Question sir, pls. help.. i want to record guitar to my computer(with daw) i have a multieffects with usb output is this enough to transfer my sounds without sound degradation? or i need to buy a separate audio interface? whats the difference between usb output of multieffects v.s audio interface? thank you.
I found your channel by looking for a a review on the Audio Technica at2020 a couple of days ago, and that convinced me to buy it. Then I found out I needed a audio interface for it (I was too eager and bought it without realizing I needed a xlr cable and a interface). So here I am looking at some interfaces on amazon being bewildered by the prices on these, and imagine my face when I saw you put out a review today of the same cheap interface I was looking at. Both your review on the at 2020 and the M-track were superb, and really made me feel confident and comfortable with what I was looking to purchase. So just want to say thanks for these great reviews! PS Really enjoyed the Instrument input test lol
yeah same thing happened to my brother. bought a mic kit (unbranded, and provided a little usb pre-amp, really bad idea in hindsight). at the time none of us knew it was gonna SUCK! i know a lot more now thanks to bandrew and i aint makin the same mistake lol
I am not very technical but so far so good, because it does what I need without making my life very difficult. In my house there are much more expensive and very complex interfaces, but I will stick with this one. I just don't understand what the first knob on the left is for. The one on the far right I suppose is to connect to a speaker? What I find difficult is to keep an eye on weather the sound is clipping when I sing (I do sing quite loud when I sing very high notes).
Can you cover things like the digital interference you're talking about. I'm having an issue with my scarlet solo right now and my gut said its interference. but I'm not smart enough to know if its digital interference, electrical or just a noisy mic. any extra knowledge helps. keep the vids coming.
I don't particularly expect you to update anything on your end, but I've used this device now for about a year and while it worked well initially, over time I've noticed a bunch of crashes and driver issues that my PC has had, including a few bluescreens due to driver issues pointing directly at this. While the device itself may be solid, they do not update or upkeep their drivers which is causing these issues.
is it good for talking head videos in podcast like setup just one peroson and running it with rode podmic, i currently use rode videomicro as a shotgun mic will it be better than that.
I have seen many of your videos. You tell the truth about all the products. If it is good then you say good and if it is bad then you say bad. I have a lot of faith in you. Sir, I want to record my poetry professionally. Please tell me a good microphone and audio interface which will give me professional recording quality. My total budget is within 350 dollars. I will wait for your reply 🙏🏿
What did you have the input gain set to during your guitar audio tests? I heard that some people are getting a whine/squeal noise (ground loop hum?) when the input gain is above 50% with an instrument plugged in. Also, you say it's fine for home recording. But how would it do for something like recording music (hard rock guitar for instance) for a web/tv show soundtrack?
CAN ANYONE HELP? I just bought the M-Track Solo to be able to connect my Rode NTG-1 and record voice-overs. I thought it would be a cheaper solution than buying the Rode NT mini, allowing me to to use the Mic I already use on my camera. The problem is that unless I'm literally at 1 cm from the mic, the volumes extremely low... (no waveforms visible in Final Cut Pro).. even with the Gain knob turned up to 8... I was expecting that my NTG-1 could perform just like it does when connected to my Sony FX3.. where it can pick up a dialogue at several meters of distance without problem,.. Is there something I'm missing ? I have the Phantom power turner on obviously.. but it doesn't help. Thanks to anyone who could help me out.
I got the M-Track solo,,,,and the gain-jump was horrific. I had a DBX 286s that wasn't doing anything, so that cures the gain-jump, and this is a good A/D and USB thing. I go straight to the Focusrite in the main booth and post-process in Audacity.
Does anyone recommend an Audiotechnica at2020 + M-track solo/duo over a Blue Yeti? I currently own the Yeti but I want to improve my sound a little bit. Also, this is mostly for singing.
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Can someone help me with this console with my rode podmic ive got horrible sound and I cant afford a expensive stuff. IVe tried two cables its still horrible
if mic preamp is important to you, don't buy this. it has a very weak mic input for condensor mics. I have a good atr2500 condensor and even on 10 your mouth has to be right up to the mic for it to pick up your voice well
I just received this. I'm using it with the Samson Q2U. When I monitor the interface with my IEMs I hear a lot of white noise even with the microphone unplugged. When I plug my IEMs directly into my macbook m1 air there is no noise. This white noise happened when my Q2U was connected to my macbook also. Any help would be greatly appreciated on how to figure out how to get rid of this white noise!
I have the Scarlett (24 bit) on the booth PC. This will make a good AUX recorder in the den. I'll hopefully avoid the gain-bump. If not, I have a low-noise preamp to dodge the jumpiness. I finally gave up hoping for a low-noise xlr-usb cable..this is the ticket. Thanks for the details. The ultra-low-noise info comes from Julian. Together you guys give the whole picture.
Hello, i have a question,that I hope you can answer. I want to sample stuff from YT or even a discman. I don't want to do anything illegal,as i don't intend to sell music. I want to have fun. I used MPC Beats software,and when I try to sample, directly from the computer,like YT on chrome the audio is very bad or it just doesn't work sometimes.will this help me?
Personal experience with MAudio : bad. Very unstable drivers, and they dont evolve anymore when new generation appears. Just buy the new interface ? or not. Never more for me.
yeah you seem to be having shit luck with your gear recently. I went through a 6 month period where I ran into like 6 broken mics/interfaces. I've been trying to get my Manley Reference Cardioid fixed for over half a year at this point.
im getting this loud high pitched screeching noise whenever im using the device with guitar and bass, do you know a way to reduce this? cause im going deaf
Hey man, I am using old M AUdio fast track and I witness some random screetches / noises when playing the content, music, on the web. I have feeling it started with W10 (got it for more than ten years I guess?) I wonder if this new would be ok. Using unshield Tannoy Reveals with phones output from the card 3,5 jack of 5m long cable. Problem does ot occur if put in PC sound outputs. Thanks all for advices.
I'm trying to find an interface compatible with portable Android devices and nobody wants to give me clear answers. Alot of interfaces work with Apple smartphones and ipads such as focusrite etc. Some work on android to capture audio. But what i want to do is multitracking on Android. And now there are FL studios, Cubasis3, Roland Ztrack ,Bandlab for android. I'm wondering which interface would be compatible with my new Galaxy Tab S7 through its Type C port. I asked this and nobody gives me clear answers, even on the software sites. Focusrite answered me it wasn't compatible for this. And finally only one guy i came accross on the internet said the only device that worked for him was the older m-audio m track plugged directly into his android smartphone and it works. I'm wondering if this newer m audiosolo would work.
This interface is horrible. Every time you load a plug-in, the driver disconnects. Bought for my 6 year old for Christmas. I returned it and got a beringer umc22, that one is MUCH better
I bought the M-Track Solo to use with a microphone for streaming, but I can't get it set up properly in windows 10. I installed Driver 1.0.3 (64-bit) In the Windows Sound control panel the interface is named "Line 1/2", the sample rate options are: 2 channel 16 bit, 44100 Hz 2 channel 24 bit, 44100 Hz 2 channel 32 bit, 44100 Hz In the Control utility that the driver installed on my PC there are exactly 2 options "Preferred Buffer Size" which is a slider ranging from 16 - 2048. No info about latency or anything else "Streaming sample rate" Which is a greyed-out drop down box that is permanently set to 44100. There's no way to set the device to 48000 Hz, and I doubt the 24/32 bit options are actually working. I also can't find a way for the microphone to actually work as single channel or mono, it will only output on the left channel. I can't find any driver/windows way to fix that problem and equalizing the sound in editing after I record it is not an option, because I'm not making a recording. There is something broken with these drivers. Absolutely do not buy this if you use windows. Edit: this interface's driver randomly and very often resets its setting to "32-bit", which produces unusable audio. Sometimes it happens in between takes. I've lost too much work. This thing is a project killer.
I really like this interface. I just got mine yesterday after watching this video. The latency is really really good And everything works nice and proper. Very solid output for my main speakers, it all seems really great. I had another $50 interface fifine amazon, it was even properly specced for Line In Guitar, it was buzzy, didnt have any software and had 17ms of latency at a 0 Block Size. Same price and the M Audio is a HUGE step up, highly recommend.
My question is like why should I get an xlr setup like this cuz nowadays usb mics that are around this price point sound really Good why should i get this please Help Me DECIDE
Upgrades and options Typically if you buy a USB mic, if you want to upgrade later down the line, you have to spend just as much money, if not more to get something better, even if only but a small fraction. XLR’s allow you to interchange options pretty quickly and sound so much more better, especially if you understand the science behind it all. XLR isn’t cheap though and that is one of its down falls, but you need to remember that you are paying for studio quality sound, at least in the mic itself. Not to mention if your trying to do multiple person recording in the same room with their own mic, USB is simply not an option
@@minecraftWithDanielD yeah ive been thinking i won't be needing multiple mics and i only be getting a mic for my friend to hear me better i already have a game one and mic is decent maybe i can do some voiceovers thats why i'm settled on a usb one i'm thinknig on samson q2u have any recommendations?
@@milkman.8389 My personal preference for mic on the low end is AT2005USB. It’s a hybrid which allows for good upgrades and makes them slightly cheaper. However there’s a lot of considerations. Desk/room real estate and your voice. It often made me sound nasally which isn’t always a good thing. If you just want it for chats, I recommend something cheap, but if your planning on using it for content, you have to do your research. I don’t know your voice so I can’t give a good recommendation
just bought one...Input 1 works fine (with either mic or electric guitar) but when I plug either electric guitar or bass 9both have passive pickups) into Input 2 I get no output to my computer (I can hear it fine through headphones plugged into the M-Track Solo).....so am I limited to only using Input 1, or am I doing something wrong, or is the device not functioning properly?
I hated the review...as i have the Behringer as well as the M Audio since yesterday... and they are not much of a jump...still love the reviews here :) and i had crackle in recordings now and then ..so i got smth affordable to rule out it being my Behringer..love your reviews * They are Rad.
Thx for on point review! It’s good no-money investment to play analogue synth with iPad directly, no (other) strings attached. Great they made stereo input for an instrument. BTW, maybe lower computer sound while monitoring “it’s not a bug it’s a feature”, so you could hear monitored signal louder? :)
i buyed one of M audio m track solo, outputs are noisy headphone and monitor too,inputs are good ones not so noisy,but the levels are problematic,line in is around 4(potmeter) its a normal,but microphone are at 9-10,and mm after mm goes very high exponentially.but overall good for this price.i want to use as mobile sound card,put in my schoolbag with laptop and my M audio "oxygen pro mini" keyboard and GO. i will buy something finer to my home studio,but very good for this price as a kofferstudio.
Hello, Hope you can help me with something. Why does the audio go way lower when I connect the headset to the back output vs the jack in the front? Is there anyway to fix it? Thanks
i wish i can give u 11 thumbs up for throwing away the box. manufactures have to know that we dont need the box. so spended all the money into the item.
What about something that has provision for *two* balanced microphone inputs with 48V Phantom supply, what model is available or recommended? I want to do some stereo recordings.
Hi there, can i have a question please? :) is it here someone who can tell me if will be work with PreSonus PD-70 without problem? Thank you so much :)
Focusrite needs to make a $50 interface
They do, but its sold under a different brand and named UMC202HD.
But its uses the same ADC/DAC and is internally very suspiciously similar to the scarlet.
@@lambda7652 it's bhringer. Prob just a rip of the 2i2. I bet they could sell the solo for around 50 and still make a profit. Its strange cuz focusrite is a well known budget brand name so you'd think they would want to show that
At one point Focusrite’s most popular interface was $50 lol
For 2 years now, been watching and learning from this dude about microphones and audio interfaces! If I make it as a rapper one day, be sure it'll be due to the fact I watched a channel that helped me setup everything easily haha! Love your videos man, so detailed and well made. Just thanks a lot, appreciate it.
I am not into rap, but ur music in your channel is pretty good. Keep it up
I too watch this channel eagarly.
I too watching this channel for more than 2 years.
the throw lol
Gets me every time
I thought he was going to hit the camera and tripod.
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Watch the microphone when he throws it lol
how he fixes his glasses
This POS died on me after 3 months. It just stopped sending signal to DAW (I tried it on Pro Tools and Audacity). I can hear my bass and the playback in my headphones but it just doesn't record anything. I tried in on 2 PCs - same issues. NOT recommended.
6:38 😲 .... 7:21 😱 that was AMAZING!!
whats name of that
@@wojciechszymczak5616 guitar
I appreciate the countdowns so much... Especially my ears X
at 7:42, I forgot that this was a video on an audio interface
Feeling a little METAL today where we, always love the songs you make for the vids! Keep it up Bandrew, great job!
I have the M-Track Duo and I don't have the gain problem at the very end--it's a consistent increase. I also like how quiet the preamps are relative to many others. However, due to the sample rate, I am going to upgrade at some point. I really enjoy your in-depth reviews and humor. Thanks for doing this video.
sample rate is claimed to be 24-bit, right? But it's actually 16-bit, im right?
I was heavily using this for a year, it still works perfectly after a bit of abuse.
😂 abuse
@@Jaxonyogi it was plugged to the pc 24/7 without me using it LOL and being lightweight i always knock it off the desk.
does it still work?
@@pin1771 yes it does
xD, motherfucker is kinda hard to kill or I'm just good at keeping things, but ya can't do hi-res audio with it tho, but it's good enough just consider everything that this channel has said about it too.
@@vincentperom2845do you have issue with noise while monitoring guitar sounds?
The M in M-Audio stands for MARGARETTI. Fun fact.
Wait that's Patrick haha
@@VijitChandna hi
@@impatrickt hello how are yoi
I'm no longer recommending either of the el-cheapo Behringers (UM2 & UMC22). I have found a new budget king.
Thanks for this review. Looking to buy something like this for my daughter so she can play around with her acoustic-electric guitar and add a mic to sing some songs. Appreciate the effort you put into this.
I bought one (used) today for £23, so got the December 2023 drivers; the input settings in Windows are now offering 16/24/32-bit, all at 48Khz. The input gain dial is giving me a massive leap between 9-10, so I doubt I'd turn up that far with no clip protection.
I wish they'd put a simple limiter in the firmware, my Tascam DR70 field recorder has a limiter on all 4 channels.
Loved this part 7:22 I have the umc22 for two years because of your review! I have a friend that is getting the same one soon because I recommended it but should he buy this instead of the UMC22? The UMC22 is a few euros cheaper but thats it. He is just using it for a single mic.
Imo UMC-22 is better built wise
@@vampula12 ya I know but I wanted to know like other features it might have over the UMC22
I’m debating between M-Audio Track Solo or UMC22. Which one do you think is better?
And what do you use to record the drums dude, they sound amazing!!!
Save up for the 90 dollar Beringer UMC202HD. Much better. Actual true 24bit 192kHz recording with good signal to noise ratio.
When I tell you I SMILED at 7:31 I mean I had an ear-to-ear expression of: "Holy sh*t that sounds good!" :)
That's my main decision for buying it
i literally JUST bought a um2 LMAO
You're still perfectly fine with that interface unless you need to capture a stereo line level source.
rip
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@@Podcastage I love your videos and I bought umc22 which was very nice for my simple conceder microphone. After some time I saw a review of Worker bee and I adored it so I bought it. When I connected it with phantom power on I got light on worker bee but no signal and I wanted to ask you if it's possible that worker bee has any connection issues with umc22. (I ask you that cause my other conceder mic works fine).
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Honestly, if it can power the sm7b like that, I think it's fine. I could barely hear it using my apple "dirty buds", and I think that's gonna be how a lot of people will listen
All I would need is post processing, but if I can't hear the noise with my dirty buds, I don't think people will hear the noise with some stream background music.
bro after dankpods we just casually say dirtybuds 😭
OH NO MY PKCELL-
Solid honest review!
He chucked that box back to the manufacturer
Always a good day when Bandrew uploads! This was definitely the definition of budget audio interfaces, loud pres, not very well built, a weird gain dynamic, I'll stick to my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 second gen
You definitely have the all around better interface there.
@@Podcastage I agree, I want to upgrade from the 2i2, as you know I'm running a power hungry condenser (the wa87r2), what should I go with??
You get what you pay for 🤷♂️
@@bigfloppa3835 No, not necessarily. There are many objects sold at a very high price on the market that are surely well-packaged, heavily marketed but in fact poorly built, fragile and unreliable. It goes from perfume, to clothes, to even cars. Sellers just make HUGE margins on these.
What's the better choice between this and the UMC-22?
xtuga is better 35 €
Awesome review. I just purchased one and your video had everything I needed to get started. Thank you. You now have a new subscriber.
I'm glad the video provided the information you needed. Thanks for watching and thanks for sharing that. Hope you get some great recordings.
I think it will surely give a hard time to the UM2, again a great review brother, love ya!
Decent throw. Neibough probably questions why he now has a box but good throw never the less.
I'm just beginning to dabble in voice over and similar audio work, and I've decided not to purchase any interface right now since I remembered that my Zoom H4n is perfectly serviceable as an interface. But if I were in need of a "get-by" interface, I would go with this A-Audio unit based on this review and the overall quality and integrity of Podcastage reviews in general.
On thomann website it said 24 bit 48 khz, I thought it will an upgrade from um2 since UM2 is only 16 bit.
Hey, friend 😊
Do you know if it needs a driver to function? Want to use it on the PS4 like the behringer
Behringer umc22 vs m-track solo? Which one is better?
For me this is the worst interface, I purchased it and used for around 1 week and got a lot of issues with it, it's also really slow. It's also limited to 16bit which I thought will be ok but It's so not, I got back to my old one, Line6 UX2 , still rocks.
What do you suggest for occasional guitar recording for Instagram upload (at home)?
The price gap between UM2 and M-track Solo is a lot in my country. So if they aren't that different, would you recommend UM2? Since both are 16bit/48Khz.
can you please do a review on zoom u 22 audio interface
it MUST be better than the behringer UM2 which is TERRIBLE!!!
Definitely gonna buy this. Just have to wait until it gets back in stock haha
The price bracket has become disappointing. I got a UMC22 for $40 on Amazon back in 2018
How has the interface been over the years? I just got one and it’s in it’s way.
I bought the m-audio air during the UK first lockdown. Loved it for what I have needed it for.
Would you say it’s better than this one
@@lordisaac2870 I have never used the solo, as it was released as after. If it's similar to my m-audio air I'd recommend it
The best emoji you will ever find in your life is on 4:07 😂 I’m having a stomachache because of how much I laughed 🤣
My gain signal keep showing red light since the first time i plugged to the usb. And the result input is distorted. The gain control doesnt help it always on red light. Anyone can help?
Question sir, pls. help.. i want to record guitar to my computer(with daw) i have a multieffects with usb output is this enough to transfer my sounds without sound degradation? or i need to buy a separate audio interface? whats the difference between usb output of multieffects v.s audio interface? thank you.
Love the test with the SM7B but if I’m buying this it’s not for the SM7B, it’s probably for my neewer NW700. Great review as always!
Do you mean XM8500?!
@@Freez_Izzy One of the first podcastage videos I watched was Bandrew reviewing the $30 neewer nw700 condenser.
very informative, thank you for making this video. i just bought my first audio interface, i dont even have a clue how to record music.
You're very welcome. Happy the video helped. Best of luck on recording your music. Have some fun!
I found your channel by looking for a a review on the Audio Technica at2020 a couple of days ago, and that convinced me to buy it. Then I found out I needed a audio interface for it (I was too eager and bought it without realizing I needed a xlr cable and a interface). So here I am looking at some interfaces on amazon being bewildered by the prices on these, and imagine my face when I saw you put out a review today of the same cheap interface I was looking at. Both your review on the at 2020 and the M-track were superb, and really made me feel confident and comfortable with what I was looking to purchase. So just want to say thanks for these great reviews! PS Really enjoyed the Instrument input test lol
Hope your recording has been going well so far m8
Haha same struggle here, I bought a dynamic mic without realizing it needs an audio interface
yeah same thing happened to my brother. bought a mic kit (unbranded, and provided a little usb pre-amp, really bad idea in hindsight). at the time none of us knew it was gonna SUCK! i know a lot more now thanks to bandrew and i aint makin the same mistake lol
I too.
I am not very technical but so far so good, because it does what I need without making my life very difficult. In my house there are much more expensive and very complex interfaces, but I will stick with this one. I just don't understand what the first knob on the left is for. The one on the far right I suppose is to connect to a speaker? What I find difficult is to keep an eye on weather the sound is clipping when I sing (I do sing quite loud when I sing very high notes).
Why can't anyone make a good interface with lots of digital channels and a built in dsp.
6:40 Bandrew would absolutely ANNIHILATE a guitar solo of "Zombie"
Can you cover things like the digital interference you're talking about. I'm having an issue with my scarlet solo right now and my gut said its interference. but I'm not smart enough to know if its digital interference, electrical or just a noisy mic. any extra knowledge helps. keep the vids coming.
I don't particularly expect you to update anything on your end, but I've used this device now for about a year and while it worked well initially, over time I've noticed a bunch of crashes and driver issues that my PC has had, including a few bluescreens due to driver issues pointing directly at this.
While the device itself may be solid, they do not update or upkeep their drivers which is causing these issues.
Hi I have a problem with m track solo. The signal keeps showing in Red light instead of green Can you please help me?
is it good for talking head videos in podcast like setup just one peroson and running it with rode podmic, i currently use rode videomicro as a shotgun mic will it be better than that.
m Track Duo for the extra $20 looks to be a better bargain
I still enjoy all your content. One day I'll be able to convince my friend to stream and I'll probably get him a setup based on your recommendations.
M Track Duo or Behringer UMC22?
umc22 or m track solo ? i have trouble chosing please help
How much difference between48 khz and 192 khz. Does it matter Or not please reply.
Tossing the box was good content. Why haven’t other reviewers thought to do that. Gold star ⭐️
£50 vs £40 (UM2 always on cheap somewhere)
Seems okay, but a bit lack lustre given how long the UM2 has been out.
I've downloaded the firmware update and it now records up to 32-bit 48KHz, and playback at 32-bit 44Khz.
There is a 16-bit sound chip inside, the firmware cannot update the hardware.
I have seen many of your videos. You tell the truth about all the products. If it is good then you say good and if it is bad then you say bad. I have a lot of faith in you. Sir, I want to record my poetry professionally. Please tell me a good microphone and audio interface which will give me professional recording quality. My total budget is within 350 dollars.
I will wait for your reply 🙏🏿
Thank you for the review especially for the Latency test !
Hi, if my session in Pro Tools will be 24 bit, then this interface will not works? Must be session 16 bit only? :(
What did you have the input gain set to during your guitar audio tests? I heard that some people are getting a whine/squeal noise (ground loop hum?) when the input gain is above 50% with an instrument plugged in.
Also, you say it's fine for home recording. But how would it do for something like recording music (hard rock guitar for instance) for a web/tv show soundtrack?
CAN ANYONE HELP? I just bought the M-Track Solo to be able to connect my Rode NTG-1 and record voice-overs.
I thought it would be a cheaper solution than buying the Rode NT mini, allowing me to to use the Mic I already use on my camera. The problem is that unless I'm literally at 1 cm from the mic, the volumes extremely low... (no waveforms visible in Final Cut Pro).. even with the Gain knob turned up to 8... I was expecting that my NTG-1 could perform just like it does when connected to my Sony FX3.. where it can pick up a dialogue at several meters of distance without problem,.. Is there something I'm missing ? I have the Phantom power turner on obviously.. but it doesn't help. Thanks to anyone who could help me out.
I got the M-Track solo,,,,and the gain-jump was horrific. I had a DBX 286s that wasn't doing anything, so that cures the gain-jump, and this is a good A/D and USB thing. I go straight to the Focusrite in the main booth and post-process in Audacity.
Does anyone recommend an Audiotechnica at2020 + M-track solo/duo over a Blue Yeti? I currently own the Yeti but I want to improve my sound a little bit. Also, this is mostly for singing.
Can someone help me with this console with my rode podmic ive got horrible sound and I cant afford a expensive stuff.
IVe tried two cables its still horrible
Thanks for the audio countdown timer since I turned it all the way up to hear the preamp.
if mic preamp is important to you, don't buy this. it has a very weak mic input for condensor mics. I have a good atr2500 condensor and even on 10 your mouth has to be right up to the mic for it to pick up your voice well
I just received this. I'm using it with the Samson Q2U. When I monitor the interface with my IEMs I hear a lot of white noise even with the microphone unplugged. When I plug my IEMs directly into my macbook m1 air there is no noise. This white noise happened when my Q2U was connected to my macbook also. Any help would be greatly appreciated on how to figure out how to get rid of this white noise!
I have the Scarlett (24 bit) on the booth PC. This will make a good AUX recorder in the den. I'll hopefully avoid the gain-bump. If not, I have a low-noise preamp to dodge the jumpiness. I finally gave up hoping for a low-noise xlr-usb cable..this is the ticket. Thanks for the details. The ultra-low-noise info comes from Julian. Together you guys give the whole picture.
wow, imagine being able to hold up your Interface without it disconnecting and reconnecting 15000 times. Amazing!
It was a cool interface until I notice it could barely even pick up my guitar, might need more power in a different interface
Hello, i have a question,that I hope you can answer.
I want to sample stuff from YT or even a discman. I don't want to do anything illegal,as i don't intend to sell music. I want to have fun.
I used MPC Beats software,and when I try to sample, directly from the computer,like YT on chrome the audio is very bad or it just doesn't work sometimes.will this help me?
UMC22 vs that and what do I get as an answer? anyone what to response?
Is there a reason I would want to avoid Behringer?
Was wondering as well, am I missing something?
I'm from india.please answer my question..
M audio track solo input problem
Mic not support ing please help
Personal experience with MAudio : bad. Very unstable drivers, and they dont evolve anymore when new generation appears. Just buy the new interface ? or not. Never more for me.
My hateful ass watching this video "Is mine of lesser quality or was I just pissed about that DB jump at 10 on the dial 🤔"
yeah you seem to be having shit luck with your gear recently. I went through a 6 month period where I ran into like 6 broken mics/interfaces. I've been trying to get my Manley Reference Cardioid fixed for over half a year at this point.
Podcastage if you invest in Manley u go straight to hell after death
@@Podcastage seems possible, but I think the interface just aggravated me with its finicky behavior
im getting this loud high pitched screeching noise whenever im using the device with guitar and bass, do you know a way to reduce this? cause im going deaf
Hey man, I am using old M AUdio fast track and I witness some random screetches / noises when playing the content, music, on the web. I have feeling it started with W10 (got it for more than ten years I guess?) I wonder if this new would be ok. Using unshield Tannoy Reveals with phones output from the card 3,5 jack of 5m long cable. Problem does ot occur if put in PC sound outputs. Thanks all for advices.
I'm trying to find an interface compatible with portable Android devices and nobody wants to give me clear answers. Alot of interfaces work with Apple smartphones and ipads such as focusrite etc. Some work on android to capture audio. But what i want to do is multitracking on Android. And now there are FL studios, Cubasis3, Roland Ztrack ,Bandlab for android. I'm wondering which interface would be compatible with my new Galaxy Tab S7 through its Type C port. I asked this and nobody gives me clear answers, even on the software sites. Focusrite answered me it wasn't compatible for this. And finally only one guy i came accross on the internet said the only device that worked for him was the older m-audio m track plugged directly into his android smartphone and it works. I'm wondering if this newer m audiosolo would work.
This interface is horrible. Every time you load a plug-in, the driver disconnects. Bought for my 6 year old for Christmas. I returned it and got a beringer umc22, that one is MUCH better
I bought the M-Track Solo to use with a microphone for streaming, but I can't get it set up properly in windows 10.
I installed Driver 1.0.3 (64-bit)
In the Windows Sound control panel the interface is named "Line 1/2", the sample rate options are:
2 channel 16 bit, 44100 Hz
2 channel 24 bit, 44100 Hz
2 channel 32 bit, 44100 Hz
In the Control utility that the driver installed on my PC there are exactly 2 options
"Preferred Buffer Size" which is a slider ranging from 16 - 2048. No info about latency or anything else
"Streaming sample rate" Which is a greyed-out drop down box that is permanently set to 44100.
There's no way to set the device to 48000 Hz, and I doubt the 24/32 bit options are actually working. I also can't find a way for the microphone to actually work as single channel or mono, it will only output on the left channel. I can't find any driver/windows way to fix that problem and equalizing the sound in editing after I record it is not an option, because I'm not making a recording.
There is something broken with these drivers. Absolutely do not buy this if you use windows.
Edit: this interface's driver randomly and very often resets its setting to "32-bit", which produces unusable audio. Sometimes it happens in between takes. I've lost too much work. This thing is a project killer.
Is it better than the um22? Would this be better than a USB mic of any kind? Are there usb mics better than getting a mic with these interfaces?
I really like this interface. I just got mine yesterday after watching this video. The latency is really really good And everything works nice and proper. Very solid output for my main speakers, it all seems really great. I had another $50 interface fifine amazon, it was even properly specced for Line In Guitar, it was buzzy, didnt have any software and had 17ms of latency at a 0 Block Size. Same price and the M Audio is a HUGE step up, highly recommend.
quietly of m track solo like a shit, my PC's line in much cleaner and better than that shit m track solo
My question is like why should I get an xlr setup like this cuz nowadays usb mics that are around this price point sound really
Good why should i get this please
Help
Me DECIDE
Upgrades and options
Typically if you buy a USB mic, if you want to upgrade later down the line, you have to spend just as much money, if not more to get something better, even if only but a small fraction.
XLR’s allow you to interchange options pretty quickly and sound so much more better, especially if you understand the science behind it all. XLR isn’t cheap though and that is one of its down falls, but you need to remember that you are paying for studio quality sound, at least in the mic itself. Not to mention if your trying to do multiple person recording in the same room with their own mic, USB is simply not an option
@@minecraftWithDanielD yeah ive been thinking i won't be needing multiple mics and i only be getting a mic for my friend to hear me better i already have a game one and mic is decent maybe i can do some voiceovers thats why i'm settled on a usb one i'm thinknig on samson q2u have any recommendations?
@@milkman.8389
My personal preference for mic on the low end is AT2005USB. It’s a hybrid which allows for good upgrades and makes them slightly cheaper. However there’s a lot of considerations. Desk/room real estate and your voice. It often made me sound nasally which isn’t always a good thing. If you just want it for chats, I recommend something cheap, but if your planning on using it for content, you have to do your research. I don’t know your voice so I can’t give a good recommendation
just bought one...Input 1 works fine (with either mic or electric guitar) but when I plug either electric guitar or bass 9both have passive pickups) into Input 2 I get no output to my computer (I can hear it fine through headphones plugged into the M-Track Solo).....so am I limited to only using Input 1, or am I doing something wrong, or is the device not functioning properly?
I have that interface for my 50$ mic, it works really well
Could you please tell me if there’s any required software/driver downloads to get the M trac to work?
@@MorcicRS I dont know because I already had ASIO4ALL installed but it shows up as a 'USB Audio Codec'
@@MorcicRS there's m-audio asio driver, you can download, im not sure you can plug and play iirc
Can you review the new id4? I'm a singer and i'm searching the best entry level audio interface
I hated the review...as i have the Behringer as well as the M Audio since yesterday... and they are not much of a jump...still love the reviews here :) and i had crackle in recordings now and then ..so i got smth affordable to rule out it being my Behringer..love your reviews *
They are Rad.
Thx for on point review! It’s good no-money investment to play analogue synth with iPad directly, no (other) strings attached. Great they made stereo input for an instrument. BTW, maybe lower computer sound while monitoring “it’s not a bug it’s a feature”, so you could hear monitored signal louder? :)
Please test the $40 Polsen XLR to USB portable interface.
i buyed one of M audio m track solo, outputs are noisy headphone and monitor too,inputs are good ones not so noisy,but the levels are problematic,line in is around 4(potmeter) its a normal,but microphone are at 9-10,and mm after mm goes very high exponentially.but overall good for this price.i want to use as mobile sound card,put in my schoolbag with laptop and my M audio "oxygen pro mini" keyboard and GO. i will buy something finer to my home studio,but very good for this price as a kofferstudio.
Hey man, old video but a quick question none the less. Is it class compliant in that I can stream directly into my Galaxy s22 Ultra, and alike? Thanks
Hello,
Hope you can help me with something.
Why does the audio go way lower when I connect the headset to the back output vs the jack in the front?
Is there anyway to fix it?
Thanks
i wish i can give u 11 thumbs up for throwing away the box.
manufactures have to know that we dont need the box. so spended all the money into the item.
What about something that has provision for *two* balanced microphone inputs with 48V Phantom supply, what model is available or recommended? I want to do some stereo recordings.
How is this for gaming if it’s not good any recommendations for a good gaming interface? @anyone
Hi there, can i have a question please? :) is it here someone who can tell me if will be work with PreSonus PD-70 without problem? Thank you so much :)