hey everybody welcome back to podcast egde my name is Bandar and I'm back with an audio interface
test video for you guys today I am testing out this guy this is the Barringer euphoria um two
two by two USB audio interface with xenix mic preamp so we're going to go ahead and see how
this sounds today first let's talk about what you get in the box so let's switch to the other
camera obviously you're going to get the actual interface right here then you're going to get this
USB cable that allows you to plug it into your actual computer and then lastly you get a bunch
of documentation this is the QuickStart guide in English Spanish French Dutch Portuguese and then
there's one in Chinese and Japanese as well and then also it's important to note this comes with
a three-year warranty okay so the build quality on this thing is just decent it's an all plastic
body and I honestly don't think there's any metal anywhere on this thing so if you're planning on
traveling with this like throwing it in a bag and taking it to a convention with you I would
not recommend that because it's all plastic and it will most likely not last the jacks are a little
loose here um but it's nothing too big there this button right here feels kind of loose as well but
nothing really crazy about that the knobs on top are plastic as well and they feel a little bit
wobbly but if you keep this in a safe place like a home studio I don't think you're going to run
into any big problems with this thing breaking on you you just got to take special care of it now
let's go ahead and walk through all the features on this thing the first input over here that I am
using for my microphone is a combo input what that means it is in XLR as well as quarter-inch input
directly next to that we have two lights on the bottom one is a signal light just so you can look
down and say okay the microphone is picking up audio the light directly above that is incredibly
important it is the clip light so if your signal is too loud and you're clipping and distorting
this will light up red so I'm going to go ahead and make it do that right now so turn down your
speakers or your headphones and I'll just show you so I'm just keeping talking and where are we
now you can see it it's slow holy clicking on as I am speaking into it and it is clipping next we
have a quarter inch input which can be used for a guitar or a bass if you're recording directly
into your DAW next to that we have the exact same lights as we did on line input one we have
the signal light on the bottom and the clipping line on the top next we have the direct monitor
button right here and what this does is when it is depressed like it is right now it plays
the audio from both inputs through the headphones and the RCA outputs on the back with zero latency
so if you are recording an instrument and you need to make sure you're playing on time this
is a great feature to have because you can hear what you're playing with zero latency you don't
have to worry about compensating for a little bit of a lag then we have two more lights over
here the top one is the power light which just tells you that the interface is plugged in and
it is getting power the light directly below that is just telling you that the 48 volt phantom power
is initiated or turned on then lastly on the front we have a quarter inch headphone output so if you
just have regular headphones you're going to probably have to get an adapter like this so
you can plug your headphones in okay now let's go ahead and talk about the top of this thing
which I really like because of its simplicity and I also want to note it does not come with
these black marks on it I just couldn't see it in the camera so I marked it with a sharpie okay
the first knob right here controls the game for our first input which is what I am plugging the
XLR cable into so as we turn this knob to the right we will get louder and as we turn it to
the left we will get quieter the second knob is the exact same thing but for instrument to
the quarter-inch input right here then lastly we have the output volume knob which basically
increases or decreases the volume being played through the headphone output or the RCA output
on the back I do want to note that this does not directly affect the audio levels that are being
recorded on your computer lastly on the back we have RCA output so you can plug this thing into
an amplifier or studio monitors or something like that if you want better audio then we have the USB
plug to plug the interface into our computer and then over here this is our 48 volt phantom power
switch right now it is switched on because I'm using a condenser microphone that requires power
if you're using a dynamic microphone you'll just switch it off before you plug it in then I think
this little port right here is for a security device so you can like lock it to your desk or
something so as far as specifications for this thing I wasn't able to find much I found that
it does record 48 kilohertz resolution and it obviously has the 48 volt phantom power supply I
measured the voltage and it actually outputs about 46 volts so it's pretty darn close not the full 48
but only a couple volts off so it should work with the majority if not all condenser microphones now
as with any audio interface it's important to know how good the preamp is and you can
tell that by listening to a microphone as well as checking the noise floor and what that is it's the
signal-to-noise ratio so how we're going to test that I'm just going to crank the gain on mic line
one and I'm going to shut up so you can hear the kind of background noise that the preamp generates
okay so now as you can see I have a quarter inch plugged into my Klein input one and
I'm running this into Logic Pro X and that is what you see on the screen now
and I'm just going to go ahead and show you there I'm just going to go ahead and play a
little something so you can see how it works I'm just using a preset in Logic
okay so I do want to point out one problem I had and that's when I started to record with this it
was only recording in the left speaker only on the left channel so I'm going to show you how
I fix that on the Mac I'm sure on the PC or on a Windows machine there's going to be a very similar
solution but this is how I fixed it on the Mac so the first thing I did is I went into my audio MIDI
setup then I found the device that I'm actually using which is the USB audio codec I clicked on
it and when I first came to this settings it was set at two channel 16-bit integer so what
that would mean is the XLR input would record on the left channel and the quarter-inch that's next
to it would record on the right hand channel now since I'm recording a single microphone and most
likely you are I just switched to one channel 16-bit integer and what that does is say okay
take the first channel from this mixer and just set it as mono that's going to be the only input
coming in and it just plays the same thing out of both speakers and that's really all I had
to do to get it to work like this so the noise floor was pretty bad on this thing once you get
above about 75% you start to hear a lot of just low-end hiss but I don't think it's that horrible
for a $30.00 mixer the main thing that I like about it is it has the full 48 volts of power
it has actual input gain and then it also has the clipping light right here to make it really easy
to tell if your signal is too hot if you're destroying your audio or anything like that
so if you are looking for an interface and you were thinking about getting one of these which
is the say burn adapter or any USB adapter really I would highly recommend saving up a couple extra
dollars and getting something like this behringer um - which only costs about 30 bucks and if you
were to get a USB adapter you'd be paying five or six for that and then between 15 and 20 for
a phantom power supply so this is really only a few dollars more and you're getting better
features more control over your audio and just an all-around much better package alright guys
well I guess that will do it for today if you are interested in this interface I'll throw a link in
the video description down below and if you have any questions about it leave them in the comments
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