greetings earthlings I'm back with another interphase review for you guys
so today I'm reviewing this guy the behringer UMC 22 if you are interested in this interface that
will set you back around 40 bucks on Amazon as per usual link in the description and for this
video I have the rode nt1 connected directly to the interface with 48 volt phantom power
turned on and the gain at around 45% I will do no post-processing to the audio but I may boost it
in post so make sure to check the doobly-doo down below for more information alright guys
let's go ahead and talk about what comes in the box obviously you're going to get the interface
you get a USB cable you get some documentation and damn it to hell you get another sticker as far as
the build quality this thing feels a lot better than the behringer um - which just had an all
plastic construction this thing has an all-metal chassis the XLR ports are not loose at all but
unfortunately the dials are loose and they wiggle around a little bit the first thing you'll find
on the front of the interface is an XLR combo jack which allows for XLR or 6.3 millimeter /
quarter-inch inputs and for this channel it does have a midis preamp next you'll find a
6.3 millimeter instrument input just to allow you to plug in a standard instrument cable then you'll
find two gained dials with indicator lights directly next to them to let you know if you
are getting a signal or if you are clipping the first control is going to control the XLR combo
jack and the second controls the instrument input then you have a direct monitor button to turn on
or off zero latency monitoring you have the output volume control which controls the headphone output
as well as the main outs on the back of the interface you have two more indicator lights
to let you know if you're getting power or if the 48 volt phantom power is turned on and lastly you
have a stereo 6.3 millimeter headphone output the back of this thing is incredibly simple you
have a USB plug to connect it to your computer you have a 48 volt phantom power on/off switch
to turn it on or off and lastly you have a set of six point three millimeter main outputs to
go to your powered monitors as with all behringer products it's pretty difficult to find any useful
specifications about this thing but I was able to find that this has a bit depth of 16 bit and
a sampling rate up to 48 kilohertz obviously it has the 48 volt phantom power supply and that's
pretty much all I can figure out about this thing now I do want to point out that since
this is a two channel interface if you only have the microphone plugged in and you don't do
anything audio will only come out of the left side of your headphones or the left speaker a
quick solution on the Mac is you go into your audio MIDI setup you go to the interface and
you change it from two channel to one Channel and that should solve the problem and if you're
recording or streaming into something like OBS if you go into the audio preferences there's a
setting to make the microphone input mono which will solve that as well so now you can see that
my game is set at around 45% I'm going to go ahead and drop that down to zero and slowly
increase it so you can hear what kind of gain is generated by the Mitas preamps in this guy 25%
fifty percent
75% and 100% now I have the shure sm7b connected directly to the interface with
my gain at around 95% and this should give you a good idea of how much gain this thing is able
to offer and how clean said gain is in terms of latency here we are in Logic Pro and you
can see with an i/o buffer size of a hundred and twenty eight samples we have a round-trip
latency of about 12 and 1/2 milliseconds if we drop this to 64 samples we're looking at
around nine and a half seconds and if we bump it up to 256 we're looking at about
18 milliseconds now I'm going to go ahead and do a quick test showing you how the DI
from a guitar with passive pickups sounds with an amp simulator raw and then in a mix
so honestly for 40 bucks I think this thing is a lot better than it has any right to be
as far as pros this ting is insanely cheap it has a much better preamp than the xenix
in the UM - it offers latency free monitoring the latency while recording is absolutely usable and
actually pretty good it offers nearly 48 volt phantom power which will power pretty much any
condenser microphone and the build quality is excellent in terms of cons the DI on this
thing is just not that great it maxes out at a bit depth a 16 bit and a sampling rate of 48 kilohertz
and I personally question the reliability of Barringer's budget gear because it does have
a reputation of failure but with all that being said I think the um C 22 is still probably the
best budget interface that I've tested so far so if you're a youtuber or a gamer who's on a super
tight budget who just needs a single XLR input with 48 volt phantom power with the ability to
listen back to your computer's playback as well as hear your microphone in your headphones then I
199 percent recommend this thing I think this is probably a perfect option for you but if you're
looking to record something more professional and you're still on a super tight budget I'd recommend
checking out the 202 HD or the 204 HD because those recorded higher bit depths and sampling
rates but if you're just doing YouTube it really doesn't matter I think this is perfectly fine
because YouTube compresses the heck out of your audio anyways alright guys that'll do it for
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