hi everyone this is my review of the amtrak duo the new usb audio interface by m audio
i'm just going to show you today uh some of the things and features of the interface and
the sort of things you can connect to it and how it all integrates with your computer um as you
can see on the front there are two combined xlr and trs inputs on here switch to phantom power
and switch for monitoring on either usb the stereo direct or direct mono monitoring your microphone
on the top of it a few dials on there she puts on there for the signal levels for
input one input two for the headphones and for monitoring as well and on the rear we've got
two three and a quarter inch sockets to connect to external speakers and you've got the usb socket to
connect to your computer now um for those of you who haven't seen one of these before this is a
really really good for people just beginning out on podcasting and some basic card studio recording
because the device is sort of fairly light so fairly compact it's not too heavy so
it doesn't slide off the table too much um it's quite handy as well again with the two imports
one thing's quite sort of unusual about this is it's switchable the line inputs
are switchable between the line instruments and a microphone as well okay what you want in there
both independent of each other between and for anyone using sort of an xlr condenser mic
uh you've got the uh the phantom power switch is 48 volts to sort of power your microphone
again obviously they're the switchable in between so you're not actually overloading um the sockets
i'll just connect it up to the the computer can sort of show you one or two things on here
connect it up at the back onto the usb socket again so it's um we're showed by m audio that
it is sort of class compliant with with windows so there's no need to actually install any drivers in
there and connect it up the lights flashing on there so obviously we'll connect the microphone
up to there but as you can see with a phantom power switch it actually puts on you get so
when your signal's clipping um on there it'll show green on both those will single clip in
um and i've actually tried this with a microphone and an xlr microphone in there
one of the things i noticed about this the signal was really really clear uh and a lot of
the interfaces you get like this the compact audio interfaces you do get quite a lot of noise levels
but i think with the the amtrak duo it's got the m audio um it's got the crystal um audio on there um
again with it being so class compliant you can plug and play and away you go
um one of the things it does come with as well which you can download from the m audio website
is a it's an azo driver it's got the m audio azeo drivers specifically for the duo and uh
and it's twin the um the um track solo as well so this gives you slightly less latency than the
sort of standard windows driver um from trying it out for the first few days because it's uh it's
only just out all it's been released um i found it to be sort of really really so clear really easy
to use as we can say before you can monitor both on usb for monitoring what you're using directly
from the computer or direct stereo if you're using sort of an instrument like a keyboard or
direct mono with a microphone it's two channel as you can see channel one channel two um so you can
run two things at the same time into the computer instruments and i'm using ableton i can just
select from ableton um on there's a channel inputs on there i just do a nice sort of audio track on
there i can choose from external end and choose one two one twos that have been stereo signal one
being the left and the two to the right on here i think it's a really sort of it's only 49 pounds
which is a really sort of a good starting price to get into this it's aimed at podcasts as it came to
sort of musicians as well um it comes with um
a download car from any audio um included software to register on there all sorts of
sort of things um you know it's got avid pro tools first on there that
i've tried out a number of audio interfaces recently um you know various small compact sizes
and this definitely seems to be the best one one of them the best sort of easiest to use um and a
good clean symbol so overall i'd sort of recommend it um they're probably going to go like hot cakes
with the price you know compared to something like the um scarlet which is almost double the price
you know various other devices are definitely worth recommending so thanks for watching