this might be the best budget-priced USB audio interface on Amazon today we're
unboxing the behringer uphoria UMC 22 audio interface
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unleash your creativity I'm Radio Zane and today we're looking
at the behringer UMC 22 this is a budget priced USB audio interface that
typically goes for around $60 us on Amazon I put a link to it in the
description below so you can check out the latest pricing and get some more
info on it but right now let's open up this box
so you get the behringer sticker some manuals and of course the audio
interface and on the side here you're going to have your USB cable and here's
your audio interface dual purpose XLR and line input here which has the midas
preamp this is your instrument input here your gain knob for channel one
which is this one and your gain knob for the instrument channel you also have
your direct monitor button this is so when you're playing you can hear what's
directly going into this without the latency of your software then you've got
your volume output knob this controls both the headphone output and your
output to your monitors or your speakers and on the back you have your phantom
power on/off switch and where your USB cable plugs into now
let's jump in and hear what this sounds like okay so I'm now using the behringer
UMC 22 to record this part of the video I have let shure sm57 dynamic microphone
plugged into a Triton audio fethead and that's going directly into the behringer
UMC 22 and we have to use the phantom power on the UMC 22 to power the Fethead
I'm going to now switch to a more budget-friendly microphone and we'll
hear what it sounds like when you have to turn up the gain and push these
preamps a little bit alright so this is now the behringer ultra voice XM8500
dynamic mic plugged directly into the behringer UMC22 USB audio interface and
I've had to really crank up the gain on it it's almost at full right now and you
can let me know in the comments below if you think it sounds clean or not I'm now
going to do a section where I edit the audio a bit just so you can hear how
good of a sound you can get from a budget microphone and a budget priced
USB audio interface this is a test of the behringer UMC22 using the
budget-priced behringer XM8500 dynamic microphone this audio has been edited
this is a test of the behringer UMC22 using the budget-priced behringer XM
8500 dynamic microphone this audio has not been edited ok so this is what the
mic input sounds like let's hear what it sounds like to record an electric guitar
in the instrument input
the budget price behringer umc22 can give you great results for podcasting
music recording and even streaming which brings me to a question what type of
content will you be using the behringer UMC22 for let me know in the comments
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