Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD Audio Interface

Using this with a pair of Presonus Eris E3.5 monitors and Eris Sub8 woofer for hobbyist music production, gaming and general media on a Windows 10 tower running on AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and it performs very well in all regards. ASIO offers good low latency and it doesn't choke too hard when my track/plugin count in Reaper start piling up. Inputs are quite pristine. It looks nice on my desk without being too busy and distracting. The second pair of outputs feed an amplifier/receiver which outputs to a single, old Polk Audio PC speaker for working in mono and as something of a baseline for translatability, which I mention because most of the other 4-output interface options in this range also have 4 inputs, which I don't really need, and why spend money on something you ... MoreUsing this with a pair of Presonus Eris E3.5 monitors and Eris Sub8 woofer for hobbyist music production, gaming and general media on a Windows 10 tower running on AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and it performs very well in all regards. ASIO offers good low latency and it doesn't choke too hard when my track/plugin count in Reaper start piling up. Inputs are quite pristine. It looks nice on my desk without being too busy and distracting. The second pair of outputs feed an amplifier/receiver which outputs to a single, old Polk Audio PC speaker for working in mono and as something of a baseline for translatability, which I mention because most of the other 4-output interface options in this range also have 4 inputs, which I don't really need, and why spend money on something you won't use? So kudos to Behringer for offering a quality "in-between" option at a very attractive price-point. Two minor criticisms: First, the phantom power switch for the mic inputs is on the back of the unit, which in my smallish workspace entails having to pull the unit out whenever I want to hook up a condenser mic for some live recording. My second nitpick is the inability to link the gain of the two inputs to a single control, which would be useful when recording from stereo line sources or whenever you want to maintain perfect balance. But at the end of the day, I'm very satisfied with this unit.

Bought this package during the winter holiday season of 2021/2022 - it arrived to an apartment complex in a high congested area of town no issue. Arrived packaged amazing. No dings - still smelled that awesome fresh with all the manuals/packaging bubblesNow with the compatibility using my MacbookPro Late 2015 on Ableton Live 9/Logic Pro X (only ones I?ve personally used)No issue and have tracked guitar amazing no issues /no latency ! I?m running guitar straight into interface / no pedals or amps beforeI personally love using VSTs (Archetype is my favorite) and that worked amazing with this.Also the bundle chords are great condition for home studio and the lengths are great. I?d recommend this bundle or the Individual items separately. Great and money well ... MoreBought this package during the winter holiday season of 2021/2022 - it arrived to an apartment complex in a high congested area of town no issue. Arrived packaged amazing. No dings - still smelled that awesome fresh with all the manuals/packaging bubblesNow with the compatibility using my MacbookPro Late 2015 on Ableton Live 9/Logic Pro X (only ones I?ve personally used)No issue and have tracked guitar amazing no issues /no latency ! I?m running guitar straight into interface / no pedals or amps beforeI personally love using VSTs (Archetype is my favorite) and that worked amazing with this.Also the bundle chords are great condition for home studio and the lengths are great. I?d recommend this bundle or the Individual items separately. Great and money well invested my fellow musicians! !!!! Better than the FocusRite brand . Only one after this you?ll need is the Apollo brand only because of the onboard PreAmps for pro quality! This behinger definitely competes without that nerdology

I've always been happy with the price/quality ratio of Behringer products, and this is not exception. I haven't tried other interfaces (until I got this I was still using my Audigy2 Platinum, which was great when I got it, but is more than 15 years old now), so this won't be a comparison as much as just some first impressions.I'm on Windows, and mostly use Bitwig for production. The driver installed with no problem, and setup was easy. Bitwig sees the device fine, and there's no issue with recording audio directly in the daw.Sound quality is fine. I was a little worried about the headphone preamp after reading reviews that said there's distortion at higher volumes. However, I have very easy to drive headphones (ATH-AD900s), and unless I want to damage my ... MoreI've always been happy with the price/quality ratio of Behringer products, and this is not exception. I haven't tried other interfaces (until I got this I was still using my Audigy2 Platinum, which was great when I got it, but is more than 15 years old now), so this won't be a comparison as much as just some first impressions.I'm on Windows, and mostly use Bitwig for production. The driver installed with no problem, and setup was easy. Bitwig sees the device fine, and there's no issue with recording audio directly in the daw.Sound quality is fine. I was a little worried about the headphone preamp after reading reviews that said there's distortion at higher volumes. However, I have very easy to drive headphones (ATH-AD900s), and unless I want to damage my hearing---yes, the sound does get distorted at very high volume---the audio is fine.I have a couple of issues with it. One is that there should be more options, either using switches on the device, or setting in the software. For example, if you have unbalanced speakers and are using the RCA output, there's no way I can find to set these as the main output, meaning that the volume control on the front has no effect. It would make sense to be able to choose your main output in the interface. As another example, the two inputs on the front are automatically detected as one stereo input. It is easy to configure them as individual mono inputs in Bitwig, and there's probably a simple solution to do this via windows, but it would make sense to me to have this as an option in the UMC software. That said, I do appreciate the lack of bloat in the software.The second issue is the poor documentation. Most of what the device does is easy to work out, but there are details I wonder about that aren't explicitly explained in the documentation, so I need to either experiment to find out for myself (which can be difficult when I want to know the answer so I can decide whether to buy something), or search for discussions on forums. For example, the documentation makes it sound like the TRS and XLR inputs (of the combo inputs) are identical, but surely this can't be the case. Is it reasonable to assume that phantom power only goes to the XLR inputs? Probably, but do I wan't to risk plugging in a TRS cable and causing a short while the phantom power is on, just because the documentation doesn't clarify this? And are the XLR inputs mic level and the TRS inputs are Line/Ins level depending on the button? Or are the XLR inputs just the same as the TRS inputs? None of this is clear.None of this makes it a bad product for the price, but these seem like simple things to improve, especially the documentation.