By the way I forgot to mention that I just bought the Steinberg UR22mkII today and I had followed all your instructions, and it was a smooth walk in the park while eating a piece of cake man!!! thanks again..
Very well done! You are a very decisive and clear communicator. Thank you for cutting out all the extra fluff and getting straight to the point! Extremely comprehensive video... I don't subscribe to many channels but you're on my list now! This was so helpful; easy to listen to and fun to watch. Thanks again!
Wow! 31 minutes from opening the box to a ready-to-mix song verse! It's a testament in its own right! I'd guess that your musicianship came before your recording-engineer status. Good Job and thanks! The installation process is usually intimidating to me. You made it look easy! BTW I have Reaper but use Cubase Pro and have never slept into the reaper's path. LOL
I'm just getting into home recording. Watching you set up the UR22 was super instructive and clear. Thank you!! A knowledgeable colleague and my local music store that caters to the pro musician both recommended this unit, too.
@@Purrrelll no its not its actually pretty decent i use to have this one. lmao if you cant make good music its not your interface its you. lmfao bunch of trolls
I think you are first supposed to install the Yamaha driver, only then your PC will recognize the audio interface when you plug it via USB. So it's normal that the USB light did not power on at the beginning of the video. Similarly, the firmware update file will only run if you have the interface already connected via USB to your computer (Windows 10 here). Thank you so much for the extremely useful video about this thingy.
I would like to thank you very much for your video. I watched it, took several notes and was able to set up my new studio in just a few hours. The whole recording process now goes smoothly and flawlessly. Thanks again. Your video was very helpful.
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Thank you for posting this video. I bought a UR22 a few years back and use Reaper but could not figure out how to exactly configure it since every programs settings are different.
Thanks for posting the video, been doing quite a bit of research for the beginner gear, and looking at this unit in particular. Think I'll pull the trigger.
You are an inspiration. I have paid attention to this audio interface for a while, I have a Line 6 UX1 and I am not happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have read more than one time that the Steinberg doesn't have enough headphone output
The headphone output was a little low on my Sennheiser HD380 phones, so I'd imagine it'd be even lower with higher impedance phones. If it's a problem, you could always use a headphone amp like the little Behringer HA400
I have in mind a 35 ohm headphones. Yours are 54 ohms. Will that difference in ohms be noticeable enough in your opinion? Also, I am looking around for a headphone amp that is reasonably good an affordable but that is small and with internal battery so I can move it around, do you know of any?
That should be fine for headphones. I'm not aware of a battery operated headphone amp. But I'd be interested to see if there is such a thing, and if it can deliver long enough battery life to be worth it. I'll have to look around.
Great explanatory video, you are very sympathetic! I have a problem with it though, more specifically the interconnection to a Traktor Kontrol S2 Mk3. Its hooked up to the front of the UR22 with an RCA to Cinch cable, both are connected to my laptop via usb and yamaha speakers left and right at the back of the audio interface. Now Traktor Pro is giving me a hard time regarding the master control of the controller, I couldn't prelisten the tracks on it or change the volume via master, until I found out that the RCA to Cinch connection is needed. BUT NOW there is no bass coming out of the speakers, I tried it with and without the yamaha steinberg software, I tried different interconnections of master accesses, one time the interface was master, another time the controller (which has a soundcard build into it), and funnily enough every other source like YT for example works fine, bass is present. So I researched more and more and found out that the software inside of my computer might address a nonexistent subwoofer with the bassline...can I change that through the ASIO of the yamaha steinberg software (didn't look like it though -.-), where do I go for it in my laptop, or do I try with Traktor Pro first? What would you suggest, do you know of a problem similar maybe? Thank you for your help, stay tuned!
I'll need to read up on that control surface a bit more. I don't have any experience with anything like it, but I'll see if I can wrap my head around it.
thanks for the wonderful video, watching you is really entertaining and educational at the same time, you made it all so much easy and interesting, more power to your channel,
Gracias por el video.. son muy buenas las Interface Steinberg, y ha un precio Fantastico.. soy usuario de Steinberg desde siempre, Ahora con el Nuendo 11 super contento un saludo 🙌
I plugged my in today and it worked fine with the USB port. The drivers are on the disk and it worked fine. It takes too long to do it the way you are doing it. I loaded the drivers from the disk in half the time you did.
What driver and firmware versions were on the disk? I highly recommend to ALWAYS download drivers and firmware directly from the manufacturer's website. That way you are guaranteed to get the most up-to-date drivers. There is no telling how long ago those drivers were written to that disk. They could be several versions old by the time you open the box. The disk is really only there for those without an internet connection.
One from best video tutorial on, from any sound cards ever. I buy this product because tutorial is best on youtube. And works it in Win7 and 10. Against Scarlett 2i2, which has a lot problems on PC. All sellers, rspectively Steinberg should by pay behind this video.
Good day, Sir! The video was informative and amusing. You kept me interested throughout the duration of the video. Anyways, I'd like some suggestion. I want to do podcast / stream / record audio in near future, hopefully. I am completely clueless regarding how all of this works. I was only aware of, or know a little bit about, USB-microphones. Which are often times frowned upon by most audiophiles and people with lots of experience and music know-how. I was planning to purchase Blue Yeti. But my budget allowed me to go a little ahead, emphasis on "little", and perhaps get the "real deal". There are not many places I can purchase from. I have been watching reviews of different microphones everyday. But I can't help but dazzled by the way more crisp sound of a "proper" set-up. Of course, I cannot afford that, but anything that comes close to it -for a start-up, would be really great! Here is the website that I plan to purchase some kind of set-up from. musicguide.com.pk I found this. Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 ( 2nd gen) + setup (package) at a price I can almost afford. My budget is almost 40,000rs. If you happen to have some free time on your hands, could you please browse around the site and recommend me a set-up from there? Like, most things that would be important for me to record decently. Please not that I can only use USB-based audio interface. Also, I do not plan to use any musical instruments with it anytime soon. As lower as it can get, while maintaining good value for money, is my goal.
your power light should be blinking without the driver--your going to have a ton of cracks and pops if you run this through a hub ( evidently not-Steinberg directions are wrong)----so far-I Am impressed with you -pretty good skills and a cool personality -cool riff-great bass :-)
In all of my years of learning about audio interfaces, running one through an USB hub has always been a big no-no. I was really surprised to see that it actually worked, and worked very well!
Your first plug in attempt would have worked right away if you had first downloaded the software driver stuff on your computer, then it would have been able to read the interface with that first thing you tried to plug in and would have showed it light up right away for that too. Just FYI. Lol
Unfortunately, I don't think it would have helped. My USB ports apparently weren't providing enough power. As soon as I gave it a full 5V, it connected without drivers installed. Before that, it wasn't even giving a flashing USB connection light, it was just dead altogether. Maybe it was a particularly sensitive or faulty unit?
Hey thanks! Back then I was using a Canon Powershot G7X as my #2 camera. It's a great little camera, and you can probably find them relatively cheap on the secondhand market at this point.
pls someone help, i’m having the same problem where my interface won’t turn on when plugged directly into the computer how do i go about using a USB hub with it? don’t i need to plug the interface into the computer somehow too?
Hi, didn't you have to make any mismatch fixes? I have a presonus audiobox usb and it has mismatch errors when recording or with the midi, what PC are you using?
This video helped me out alot. Thank you! I want to make a video about this audio interface, and I was wondering if it was okay to link your video to tell the viewers how to properly set it up. Again, thank you.
mine works fine, no regrets. its like a soundcard. a century ago i had a soundblaster xf or something, with a control panel under the cd rom, and this reminds me of it. i wonder why there are no soundcards around any more. making music with the onboard stuff is crap.
You need to select 32 samples to get in the 2-3ms latency range. Just bump it back up when you do your mixing to avoid playback errors (pops & clicks).
Nah, he should have checked the latency after choosing a frequency. The higher the frequency, the lower the latency, it helps the buffer. So that panel was probably showing much less latency after setting it in 48 (I'd recommend at least 96 though). Edit: Just in case I double checked his vid, you can see how going 48 lowered his latency both ways by .200 ms or so. Again, 96 makes it much lower, and this one goes up to 192, which is what I would personally use.
I have this exact unit and cannot get it to work with an older MacBook Pro running high Sierra 10.6?. Digital input to Mac is severely distorted (like a bit rate mismatch). Also get a Midi error. Downloaded latest Steinberg driver....no help. Have run it off external power no help. Any ideas to resolve would be appreciated.
Now that you've got a good modern computer, you can probably get your latency down low enough to start monitoring through the DAW. I just like it because I get to hear any effects that I have on the track as I record, but there's nothing wrong with direct monitoring either.
Cheers - would be handy if you could knock up a quick "how to" at some point for how to reduce your latency to its lowest possible level in Reaper. Reducing buffer sizes, sample rates etc. I just leave mine as default - 'cos I only ever direct monitor having a 20ms latency doesn't bother me much, its just irritating when programming drums.
My headphone out sounds garbled and not sure what exactly is going wrong with it.. I have UR22C, but it is pretty much the same unit. What you made sounds like fun. Rest of it, my unit works fabulously well.. tried lowering the sample rate and the computer seems to handle it well.
Thanks! Honestly, they're really neck-and-neck. They're both solid all-around interfaces. The UR22mkII preamps have just a tiny bit more "personality", but it's really subtle. I don't think that you can go wrong with either.
@@YHRS Thanks! I may go with the Steinberg, as the variable latency knob seems to be a pretty handy feature. I do like the aesthetics of that Roland a little more though...
I just love you right now for posting this video. Steinberg should do this because they've made their own products so hard to deal with. I know they will be going out of business soon probably because no one is going to want to deal with the many complications you face trying to get their products to work. There are numerous other products that I'm about 99% sure are like a millions times easier to deal with.
Have you experimented with mic pres to see if it kills the preamp noise floor these produce? I used to have the 8 channel and sropped recording and then got an itch to start again and I remember these having noise, but I also bought a grace m101.. just curious if you already knew if a good preamp would eliminate any noise that that sits under the sound. Partly why I quit was due to always having to mix out noise. recorded for 15 years strong and one day I just stopped. I still have every waves bundle, api, isotope, etc.. loads of stuff. I added it up long ago and was well over 150k in plugins. But I never bought a higher end decent mic pre to go with it until now.. just crappy art ma 2. And presonus junk... I got so good at editing with all of the plugs that I could neve justify buying one. But I think it will help give a stronger cleaner signal to manipulate.
The USB connection handles inputs and outputs from the interface to the computer. If you're wanting to feed the analog outputs back into the computer (loopback), there is a loopback feature in the ASIO control panel that'll let you do that.
@@YHRS My issue is that I use mic to record using the karaoke app called Smule in my iphone. So the USB will be connected to iphone. But I want to send the combination of voice (from mic) and music (from karaoke app in the iphone) to my computer so that I can join webex or zoom meeting for virtual meetings. So I was thinking if I can take the audio interface output (1/4 inch TS pins) to 3.5 mm TRS pin to computer. Can you please advise if this arrangement will work.
One question i dont get my mic to work, the input shows with Steinberg But no sound into mic. I have a pretty old dell laptop.. can it be the USB port that cause problem with the USB 2.0?
I've heard they're better if youre running Windows. The focusrite's drivers don't like windows and you'll end up with blue screens. I've read a few people haven't had any issues with the focusrite and windows, but I'm not taking the chance.
Sir my name is Sukhwinder Singh I'm from India ...Which is really the best audio interface ? Steinbergur22c or Audient Evo 4 or Audient id 4mkii .... I have to work with a window laptop, but I want to do a voiceover, please tell me which is best audio Interface for Voice over ?
Hi! Thankyou for this great video, it has been very useful. I have two importants questions: - You need put the phones pot to the max with a 54 ohms headphones. I have a pair of DT-770 Pro 250 ohms, so that means that I won't listen my headphones at high volume if I need it? - Can you use the DI input without using the Hi-Z for electric guitars? Normally it's so annoying to send to the interface a too low gain signal because you have to push the amp sim and sometimes it simply can't, I mean: if you plug your guitar in with Hi-Z disabled you gets peaks all the time? Even if you have very low the gain knob? THANK YOU AGAIN!
I would expect a pair of 250 ohm headphones to be a little quieter, but I don't have a pair of phones on hand with that high of impedance. So I can't try it myself and give a definitive answer. As for the Hi-Z input, I'd expect it to have plenty of gain on tap. I wouldn't worry about not getting a strong enough signal. You can definitely try the Lo-Z line input, but the difference in input impedance will likely affect the tone. That may or may not be a bad thing, but it's worth a try.
Hey, i just got my new Steinberg UR22mkll. I got a little bit coffused, do Steinberg have kind of Gearbox like what Line 6 got ? Hope you see this, it means a lot. Thankyou.
Just about any interface will suffice for any style of music. The only thing that would make me suggest otherwise is that the direct inputs on this interface didn't have a ton of headroom, and the guitars usually used for metal music have high-output active pickups. So if you're going to record guitar direct, that might be something to keep in mind.
i need help i cant hear anything in my headphones unless the mix knob is twisted up a little bit even if my headphone volume knob is all the way up. when listening to anything not just in my daw
IMPORTANT: ALWAYS INSTALL THE DRIVERS BEFORE YOU PLUG THE AUDIO INTERFACE IN. It could cause problems otherwise. That's probably why nothing lit up when you plugged it at first, as your next step after that was installing the drivers
thanks for the video ! what is the point of buying a sound card if it is to use 48000khz while the model has a frequency of 192000khz? if the ear does not hear it, that does not necessarily mean that the sound will be less beautiful. example between 48000 and 96000 we still see the difference in the treble with more detail.the big difference is 24 bits and 32bits, it's more noticeable
