Waiting for the comparison as you mentioned. I would be highly thankful, if you could analyse Apogee one & duet 3 the same way please 🙏🏻. Especially “Apogee One “…. Please, Please, Please. Request from your regular viewer.
M about to buy audio interface, m following your videos, there's a lot of interface m interested but, from the graph i think audiant id4 mkii and ssl2 looks good to me...m still confusing...which one do you mostly preferred or recommended if you are gona chose,....please help..as i dont want want to waste my saving.. Thank you.
haha i was about to comment the same thing. I like how he clearly pronounces the K in the word "Dick". It makes me want to hear him tell someone to F*ck Off 😄
By leaps this was the most useful review I have ever seen. I appreciate the work you put in to supply the good data. This Makes me know rather than guess that I made a good decision to buy for someone else who is getting ready to launch a career. It won't be the last interface - we will step it up. But for now, it is perfect. Thank you!
@@HarvinderSingh-yy8th Since flatness of sound is subjective wouldn't that mean that sound coloring is also subjective? I'm genuinely asking since I'm not really sure whether the two things go hand in hand. As far as I'm concerned, NOTHING can be absolutely flat and therefore different ears will hear different flatness and levels of sound coloring. I would leave it to personal preference in regards to the sound one is accustomed to.
@@natevirtual well youre right to a degree, however once you get to a certain level of clean pres - where the distortion caused, especially IMD and signal/noise ratio - lives just soooo far down below the noise and distortion floors of the mics, that you can call it "uncoloured" Im not sure about how the rme stacks up against the apollo, but uncoloured is certainly not subjective
Yeeees! I’ve been waiting a month for this. Thanks! Now time to watch :-) Oh bummer, didn’t read the title. I was hoping to see one of the 76 series. Hopefully they have a newer dac in it as part of the higher price.
They are the exact same unit. The 76 series has a compressor and vintage preamp mode that frankly to my ears makes no difference at all except to your bank account.
no emotion, classic German style, yet with underlying humor, factual information, measurements. A living database of interface boxes and analytics! Sehr gut sehr gut! Messtechnikmeister....!
We in Eastern Europe don't see it as without emotion. We see the style of the States full of acting. It's like this is how normal people talk about technical stuff.
As always Julian is totally the best guy to go to to check out the comprehensive specifications of studio gear in comparison to other brands & models out there, all information you may need to know is covered to make your decision. Thanks Julian for all your work and helping me make the correct decision for me.
Great review as usual. You are blessing to the music production world especially home studio owners. Still looking forward to a test of the Universal Audio Apollo Twin ii
This seems to be among the very best-performing CS4272 implementations out there, with dynamic range overtaking even the Arturia MiniFuse 2 on the input and only being second to the Tascam US-2X2HR on the output side, as well as consistently very low distortion with no nasty surprises. The headphone output is solid (not the highest max voltage but a very good load driver), microphone EIN is good but not exceptional (but still beats its spec). Clearly a well thought-out piece of kit overall, including the power options. In these times of chip shortages, wringing a maximum of performance out of what we can get is appreciated. Beating 110 dB(A) in and out would have been midrange terrain a decade ago. This is getting close to EMU 0404 USB terrain. A good one for measurements, and it's class compliant so will work in Linux out of the box. As it stands, the CS4272 datasheet DR specs of 114 dB(A) seem to be unattainable in practice (not unusual in consumer-grade chips) and about 112 dB(A) in and 111 dB(A) out would be more realistic. It's interesting how things seem to be the other way round for the CS4270 if we look at the UR22C (chip spec 105 dB(A) - in 103, out 106, so the DAC even beats the datasheet, which makes sense if you consider that it was likely based on the CS4391 design spec'd at 108 dB).
I agree, the Volt 2 has one of the best implementations of the CS4272 which I have measured so far. In most aspects the interface achieves nearly the fully specified performance of the converter.
Forcing the user to register just to get the driver for an audio interface is, in fact, a dick move. That would be a hard no for me. If you ever want me to be a customer, UA, you should fix that garbage.
Their customer service is trash too! I messaged them to see when the official release is on this and they said “ask your dealer” In my initial message I stated that they all said “around thanksgiving “ and that’s it. Which is why I bothered to message them in the first place
I just needed to add to this as I was so frustrated with my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. I tried everything to get the static out of my audio. And I gave up and decided to return it and looked for a better budget interface when I found also your video. Its is insane once you installed the driver the sound is so good it is day and night. Thanks for the review really! Danke dir Julian!
Thanks for amazing videos! They are very helpful and well done! You rock! 😎🤟 P.S. I would love if you include round trip latency at 96kHz also since people use it a lot more than 192 because of technological limitations. 96 is a really good step up from 48 but still not demanding as 192.
Julian's first UAD review... Can't wait for Apollo X8 review (or any Apollo from the Apollo series). Also do you have future plans to review Steinberg AXR4, Avid Carbon?
I’ve been waiting for this eagerly ,thank you so much ! Can’t wait for the other review of the Ua interface ! Gotta say I kinda expected a little more from ua
The *Vintage* mode kicking in only at high input levels is totally inline with vintage (i.e. tube) preamps such as the 610 and 1073. Universal's plugin versions of these preamps faithfully duplicate this behavior. However, UA adds a digital/linear turn-down control on the _output_ side of the plugin. This allows you to crank up the input side to the high levels required to induce the tube harmonics, while simultaneously (digitally) reducing output side, all the while maintaining those harmonics. I suspect the idea here is to crank up the VOLT''s gain to the same necessarily high levels, while turning it down to a more normal level inside your recording app.
I greatly appreciated this review, very on point and evidence-based. Most reviews I saw about soundcards are full of bla-bla, with scarce data about real differences between brands and models in terms of objective performance. Congrats to you!
Hey Julian, I love your reviews. As someone who has owned 100+ soundcards, this is everything I wish I had previous to jumping into yet another interface. If I had more time, I'd love to do a bunch of reviews on all of the old stuff I own, because there are so many decent, even great interfaces from the past 10 years. I know it wouldn't have the relevance of what you do, but just from an audio geek perspective it could be a lot of fun. What's your favorite old interface? Do you have one?
I just dont really get the vintage sound feature, i would have thought impercievable in the mix. I just find this stuff a bit of gimic to sell product. What would be better would be a lower priced DSP interface, which they could achieve just look at what Steinberg offers at the budget end.
Thanks a lot! Ich habe das Volt 1 und nehme an, dass es die exakt gleichen Messwerte hat als das Volt 2. in meinem Homestudio verwende ich zwar das ZenQ TB von Antelope, aber für mobile Angelegenheiten macht dieses einen guten Job!
Excellent as always. In your tradition of excellent interface reviews, I would love to have you look at the Tascam Model 12/16/24, focusing only on the USB interface functionality to start. I recently got the Model 12. It boasts a 12in/10out interface and its preamps certainly are superior to my trusty older Behringers and I think just as good as Focusrite. Not at the level of Antelope, but not bad... Wondering if your tests would bear that out.
Danke Julian, hab ein Motu M2 an meinem Mac Mini, will aber etwas kleines für unterwegs zum aufzeichnen. Das Video war echt informativ um mir mal Volt 1 & 2 anzuschauen :D
This price range is really packed with contenders like SSL2, iD14 and motu M4, out of box one would be clarett pre2+. I don't see how UA Volt stands out in this lot.
It doesn’t stand out. Hence the colourful buttons! It’s just marketing - they see that huge numbers of amateurproducers have shifted from the 100 euro interfaces into the mid-market and they just don’t want to be left out.
Forcing someone to register in order to utilize a simple product such as an audio interface is generally regarded as a "dick move"..... Keep up the good work and godspeed @Julian Krause
Nice, specs look good and quite stable/consistent. Pertinent point about the price, people might choose to stretch a little to get those gear in the next tier
Sheeeiiiit, I've been waiting for this one, I was hoping for the 76 series but its good to know I would just go for the Arturia Minifuse 1 or 2 over this one (cheaper) and the vintage mode makes little difference to my ears.
My M-audio m-track 2x2 died on me yesterday, so I took a VOLT 1 to replace it as I had some noise problems with the old one, will see, will see, thank you for your awesome work! :)
I spat out my coffee when you said it was a dick move on UA's part to force users to register/create an account just to get ASIO driver support. Well done!
Hi Julian , I'm a recent susbcriptor and I'm loving your videos, they are very detailed and specific. I don't know if you already did a video of the top 5 under 200$ interfaces in 2022 but it would be amazing. I'm looking forward to buy a nice interface in that price range but I can't decide yet. I would like to know what would you buy for recording at home and live gigs. thank you very much!
Hi Julian, I appreciate your content. have you ever considered reviewing any RME interfaces? like the fireface ucx2 or babyface pro fs? im curious how they compare against some of the higher end stuff you reviewed. Supposedly many pros consider RME to be entry level but a true contender against highest end interfaces but it would be interesting to see how the actual measurements stack up
Hi! first time here... there are really exciting those graphs. I assume you use an oscilloscope or some kind of measurement device. It´s great to compare without "subjectiveness"... very courious to see other content from you whit this format. Greetings from Argentina
Ooopsy, up the dead :lol: I just bought one of these. My "what used to be trusty" iD4 was giving me all kinds of grief. Weird driver issues with it constantly reverting to an output latency of 17.5 (basically if I had set the buffer to 512) So far so good, and now that I figured out the "instrument" needs to be on for bass/guitar, it's ace.
Had to add, latency is better than my Audient iD4 @128 buffer, so it's interesting that it's "not as good" in latency on your end. Higher end cards like RME do indeed have terrific latency, but it's hard to believe that in this price range, others are really better.
Do you think having the compressor on Volt 276 is much better than getting just Volt 2 without the compressor, do you think it justifies the higher price? Thanks for the review, enjoyed watching it.
Hey Julian ! First of all I really appreciate your reviews and can't believe how in depth they are. My question is how compatible are the MiniFuse1 with pair of Sennheiser HD 280 Pro (64 Ω). If not what would you recommend around same price ($100).
Everything has a ten-ohm output impedance on the HP out (a few are worse like the Audient stuff) according to one of his graphs in another video, not ideal but you will be fine. HD280 has very good sensitivity (SPL) and will get loud enough with any interface. You can potentially crank it up to harmful audio levels, so you will have headroom during normal use.
Waiting for the comparison as you mentioned. I would be highly thankful, if you could analyse Apogee one & duet 3 the same way please 🙏🏻. Especially “Apogee One “…. Please, Please, Please. Request from your regular viewer.
ill stick with my motu m2. I first bought the Scarlett 2i2 then did more research and swapped it with a motu m2. couldnt be happier. UA is trying to fill the market for lower priced interfaces for armatures however doesn't really offer anything revolutionary.
@@soundbelch1600 I’ve never had an issue with all of the Audient interfaces for their drivers … they are quite good actually. The only thing I don’t like is the Audients preamp.
@@samueloluyinkaojomu6548 they just sound boring, not sure how great they are for say guitar or anything else that is not vocals, but for vocals the preamp is boring, boosted low mids, sounds automatically compressed , sorta muffled but yet clear still…. I’d say they would possibly match a cheap condenser mic where it’s a bright, harsh mic, but with an expensive mic they usually are already super smooth so mixing the Audient pre with that then you’re vocals will be overly smooth, therefore boring sounding lol
Any chance you will do a review on Roland Rubix44? Not finding any useful reviews. Btw you sir are one of a kind. Noone comes close to this level of professionalism and detail.
Great Review! Have you ever worked with the Motu Stage B16? It's like a swiss knive. It's build for recording but you can also use it for a Studio. I would love to see a reciew of that!
