Great video! I'm just getting into home recording and have been really studying up what interface I want. I've narrowed it down and decided the id14 is perfect for me. This video was fantastic and information, very much appreciated brother!
Excellent review Brother! You cover the whole gambit of usage. I just received my iD14 mkII and can't say enough about it. I think my guitars alone went up 3 notches in pickup character alone from the really clean JFET impedance and circuitry. Better than a cloud lifter and the mic pre's shine with clarity. Add to that the stellar output and S/N. Your video is like a users manual. Refreshing, when all too many other YT reviews are just a hodgepodge of echoing vague first impressions. Your review shows you are covering the important and useful possibilities. Gave you a thumbs up. Thank You!
Yes, I'm not personally a fan of videos where folks simply give you an opinion (hype) and don't even show the function of a plugin or interface. I always try to focus on function, not hype.
This was a very clean and easy-to-follow video! Thank you 🙌🏻 Waiting for my unit for my home studio, and to use for drum tracking together with the 18i20!
Why dont any blogger tell that this card is getting reset volume after each pc restart . You must manually turn back your comfortable volume gain by volume knob each time. It doesnt have any memory. Its annoying. As i use only headphones - its very uncomfortable that this card doesnt have a separate HP volume knob.
This is a really excellent video I may say. I’m trying to live stream and take phone calls while on live stream and I’m having a little bit a problem. Wanna see if someone on here can help me out. I have a Yamaha mixer and I have the RANE 4 Controller. I also am using the Serato software on one PC and stream labs on another PC separately and I have the ID for plugged into my PC that has the stream lab software. I did a test run I can hear music playing out of my monitors from RU-vid very clear and with great quality, but when I try to make a phone call, I cannot hear anything come out the monitors or out of my headphones that I have plugged into my ID for. Can anyone assist and help you out to understand how to configure it where I can receive phone calls, and it can be heard into the live stream broadcast. Thank you in advance for anyone who wants to help out. I greatly appreciate the group.
that crazy I have the same one but on Mac. and it doesn't show my sample rate!? also why can't I figure out how to turn off the direct monitoring ? trying to do the sound id Sonarworks and I can't since I can hear my microphone through the speakers. frustrating. great video sorry just wanted to speak on this
great video - really appreciate the effort :) I'm new to this style of mixer and when rendering my file in ableton do you know what the best level on DAW1+2 IS? i tried -30, -20, -10 and none of the files null in a phase flip test - to my ears the levels set at -30 before rendering sounded deaper and rounder. Do you or anyone here know about this or can test this themselves? :)
So as you said I get no sound from my computer speakers as intended. I plugged in headphones on the 3.5mm jack in the front with my guitar but still no luck with Amplitube/cubase to get input sound. p.s. when i have windows sounds though the audient i still dont hear anything on my headphones which should work. Any help?
I have bought id14 yesterday, It's good but my new id14 release so much heat, before I use focusrite 2i2 it was not release that much heat. Please guide me sir.
My only problem so far this interface, that I am never sure about the phantom power is on or not. I wish there would be a LED or something. Left-right doesn't really map into anything in my brain. I'm trying to remember it as "if it points to 48V it means it adds that".
Can you use a NT1a rode condenser mic into external mic preamp Gap73 > into la2a and 1176 compressor then > back into the line input of audient at the back ? with phantom power on or off ? ... not the di input but line in ? cheers
can i use the interface without connecting to a DAW ? if i want to connect a line-in through the optical AND connect some analog inputs via XLR, can i hear everything mixed together through the headphone jacks or even through the analog outputs all at the same time ?
Whenever Audient ID14 MK2 is powered off between PC boots, it should initialize at 0% volume. Sometimes, however, it will initialize at 100% volume instead and stay at that level until the user moves the scroll control wheel (then it immediately jumps to 0% where it should be). ID mixer shows the card being at 0% volume, while you can clearly hear it being dangerously loud (as a precaution, I had to permanently lower my monitors' volume to survive these situations, as it's a serious health hazard otherwise). please help me if you also got this issue!
I've recently picked up an ID44 and this video was SO helpful in getting more familiar - thanks! I have a question on routing if you can help? I am trying to use a reverb pedal as outboard gear and I have it running from Output 3 on ID44 to pedal input, then output into Input 1 on ID44. I am using Studio One with the pipeline plugin and when setting up I/O it's taking send from Output 3 and return from Input 1, but nothing is coming through when played back. Any ideas?
I have a problem and i need your help please! My setup is FL studio + ID14 + AKG condenser mic. ALL drivers up to date (DAW driver is set to Audient one). I can record everything fine in my DAW. I use only my ID14 as my source of sound so Windows output is at Analog 1/2 so i can hear both youtube and my daw for example. I can record windows into DAW like shown here 21:18 through loopback BUT I CAN NOT do the opposite as shown in here 22:28. Ive done everything like you did. set all things that i see to 48kHz AND set loop back to master mix. OBS is capturing windows audio just fine but loop back is silent. My daw output is 1/2 so i hear it in the Main Mix. I can loop the audio from DAW to DAW thats for sure because the sound doubles and goes feedback mode. I just dont know what to do now. For some reason its just dont work. In any other setup or tutorial everything works perfect but not for me even though i do EVERYTHING EXACTLY LIKE ON THE VIDEO. Thank you for your attention.
Ahhh thank you! I swapped my settings and it changed my sample rate on the loopback under the control panel. I've spent the last half hour trying to figure out why loopback stopped working! Aaaahhhh
Nice video. I bought this one,but i'm getting a problem,when i'am running audio in my daw everything is perfect about output,but when i am playing any youtube video or say using window's output driver i'am getting bass less signal in output , like high pass. When i'am using the daw returns channel 1/2,3/4,5/6 channel i'am getting bass less output. Pls let me know if you have come accross this problem and let me know if you can help. Thankyou:)
As a complete Newbie to Audio interfaces I have been watching several videos on how to set them up and learn the process in which use them correctly...It has been Mind Melting!! Until now... your video Is AWESOME! Do you have any ohter videos for the first timers to learn the very basics of daws and/or doing voice overs? Thanks So Much For Your Work On this Video
I have some other Audio Interface videos that would be suitable for beginners to pros ru-vid.com/group/PLEul48o1WdHszndjc0uadttXszwH2S6ec I don't think I have anything specifically for DAW basics or Voice Overs, but those issues are covered in several microphone and plugin review videos.
Are the volume values / mute states saved after rebooting the computer? Since the device doesn't have On/Off button, I want to make sure I don't get loud pops in my monitors while booting my PC.
I just got this interface today and I think it's crappy and distorted at even moderate volumes Stay away from buss powere interfaces. They're all shite.
Sounds like you are not getting enough power to the unit. Try a different USB port that is on the rear of your desktop computer or directly plug into your laptop, not a hub, or an extension. If that does not work, then try a different USB cable. If that does not work, get a POWERED USB Hub (one that plugs into a wall outlet). If that does not work, send the unit back because it is defective.
i have windows 11, audient id14, i installed the drivers, and when i open ableton i have mme/directx and asio, if i choose mme/directx i cant go below 256 sample and the latency it's pretty high, if i choose asio it just crashes...help
I have this interface. It works great with Cubase. But when I add an instrument track and add a vst, the DAW channel isn’t audible unless The Mixer is minimized! The track will actually stop playing when I maximize the Mixer. I hear the instrument monitoring fine but the DAW channel will not work unless the Mixer isn’t onscreen. This is odd, right?
I have the smaller version (iD4 MKII). Does the iD14 MKII have the same monitor mix function as the one i currently own? I want to minimize delay when playing guitar by sending the signal directly to the monitors and not through the DAW.
i want to send my players' sounds to my students without playing them through my speakers. is there any solution? is loop back helpful? [I have audient id 14 mk2] / my mic is NT1a / I do have a headphone.
Thanks for this video great work. I have a problem when recording gibson explorer with passive T500 magnets, my signal clip though no matter how I set the gain pots. This is not the case when I record Harley Benton P bass. Do you connect the guitar directly to the card or do you have some DI to reduce the input signal? Do you have this experience with any of your guitars with passive electronics? What pickups did you record with?
Hey man thank you for the thorough video : ) , can I ask for your opinion? I have a microphone and a stage piano which is stereo. In this case, the Audient has only 2 inputs. Is there any way I could import stereo sound with only 1 input instead of mono?
Great audio card. I bought it today and It get electric on USB cable. Means even your computer HD doesn't calculate for something you can hear the deep noise from speakers when you volume up maximum. But if you work on music studio like very quite one, you can hear the deep noise easily from Mark2. So I have mark1 also, I compared both and mark1 has not any deep noise if I use with adapter. If I m not using adapter, it makes same noise like mark2. Question is what will happen when you bounce your music or arrangement from your software, so will it bounce deep noise on music? I don't think so, I mean it shouldn't be.
Huge thanks! You helped a lot with understanding. But I didn't get one thing - now I have only one pair of monitors and can I hear any system sounds (browser for ex.) while using OBS? Cos' when I'm turning on system to 3-4, and using 1-2 for loop back I see the levels jumping but I don't hear enything - signal going on "second pair" of monitors? But if I didn't have them I can't hear sound, right? And doesn't care what position I choose in "View ---- Show System Panel", right?
Hi, This video was instrumental in me making my decision to buy this Interface. With Windows is there a way to not have the device default to 44.1k when the PC is restarted. I have to manually change this setting every time i restart my PC. for normal use. The only time I dont have to do this is if suing my DAW which has the option to "Request Sample Rate" and "Block Size"
Hi. Can you help me to understand if i can set iD button to mix knob to adjusts the signal level balance between the input signal of my mic jack and the signal from a DAW software?
Hello! I need help with understanding something. I thought that input clipping is anything above 0db like you have it in the video but it sounds like it's not clipping. Am I maybe missing something?
you're amazing! bought a id14 after my long lasting interface died and was so confused since it's my first time using audient. you saved me ! subscribed !
Thank you for the detailed review. I ended up buying this audio interface. Extremely satisfied! However, i am having a small issue and haven't found a solution so far. I am using OBS to stream and i set the input device for my mic at the "Analogue 1/2 (2-Audient iD14)". This is the exact description in OBS. I am getting signal, the sound is good, but something limits the volume coming into OBS at max -6dB . I can't get beyond that. I've looked into the filters of the Mic and there is nothing there, no limiter. I've tried a usb mic to see if the issue is OBS or my audio interface, and with the USB i can get it clipped. On the iD14 , i have connected my mic via XLR on input Mic/Line 1. No matter if i have the volume knob turned at 75% or 100% on the iD14, it will still limit the output going into OBS. Does anyone knows what's causing the issue? Thanks fam.
First of all, holy shit that was so beautifully in depth and you answered so many questions I've had about loopback that I've been scowering for, awhile now. But of course it has raised another question for me. Once in awhile I perform at open mics on a lil "social game" called VRchat and the loopback function is going to solve many problems I've had. However I'm realizing that since I'm going to be likely sending my 1-2 to OBS or possibly straight to VRC (I may be wrong about that second option), the live audience in VRchat will likely hear themselves as well no? I think there's probably an easy answer to this that I'll figure out once I get my hands on it (likely by using a Cue mix and sending that to VRC instead?). Lemme know if I'm close or very wrong. Thx for reading my long assed question.
Excellent guide! The question I needed answered was if I could view the input levels in the mixer while setting gain, because the iD series does not display input levels on the hardware meters.
Can you stereo link the gain on inputs 1 and 2 on the iD14? So that an equal amount of gain is applied to both inputs? I haven't been able to figure that out.
Sir, I am beginner. I want to record my written poetry professionally. In which my line will go in high tone and will also come in low tone. Tell me such dynamic mic and audio interface. So that I can record and mix later. My room is not sound proof. My total budget is $300. But a shopkeeper told me that you cannot do recording with dynamic mic. Please tell me what should I do. Tell me such a mic and audio interface that I will not regret after buying.
You can record fine with a dynamic mic, but it generally won't be quiet as detailed vs. a large diaphragm condensor. This can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the source and environment. Just buy what you can afford and you can always upgrade to new gear later on. Just get started 👍
You could try the ID4 MKII if you only need one input. I would suggest a condenser mic like a rode NT1A kit if you don't wan't to hold the mic in your hand. If you want to hold the mic try a dynamic mic like an SM58.
There is one c type usb cable, how to used phantom power, is usb power is sufficient to activate phantom power, there is led circle the big knob for what purpose
First time owning any audio interface. No guide. Found your video and it solved everything. May have to test every option one by one while watching to make it sure that i know and implement everything correctly when needed. But, since your guide is there i can refer to it any time if in doubt. Thanks again.
great video, almost everything i wondered about was answered! the one thing you didn't say tho, What buffer size does one use for windows stuff like watching youtube, gaming etc? does high buffer affect latency from windows audio or is buffer size simply for recording?
I am very pleased and excited when I have finally received mine today. I don't care much of their software because I'm using surface pro-8. Studio one seems the way to go. Anyways, Great video man. Going to watch this again to learn all these type of features
Thank Sir for such great sharing. I have a question. Could we use talkback signal (using microphone connected to mainboard) in loopback (source from master mix of ID14)? Thank you!
