WHICH AUDIO INTERFACE SHOULD YOU BUY IN 2023? And Which You Should Avoid

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[EvilspeakGaming]

always remember that 1: never fall into debt 2: buy what you need, thats why I have the Uphoria um2

[munchymanjaro]

Great video. Today I had to buy a new audio interface, because my old 10 year old (bought used) onyx blackjack died. After about 30min research I picked up SSL2 in nearby guitar store. It sounds great out of the box, and includes fancy emulation of ssl's 4k "harmonic distortion circuit" (I say emulation because I am almost positive that this thing dont have any analog circuit, and just have some digital processing). Recorded short demo, mixed it, got same sound as with my old interface (which is fine with me at my current level). Recorded same demo with "harmonic distortion", mixed, ended up with lighter compreasion, lighter saturstion and had to drop the presence... Which brought me full circle to the same sound as my old blackjack.

[ApolloJetsonKND]

I love my neve 88m i even took it on tour with me and it was great for live daw performances with autotune vocals and fxs . Routed from my neve to the venues sound engineer. The monitoring switch between mono, daw (the one i used for tour), stereo mix monitoring .

[wasiliyfilipchuk]

Hi Jacob. Why don't you mention sound cards like RME in reviews, or do you have an allergy on them like I do?)

[brotroydavis]

Best one is the one you buy once. Don't go "cheap" and then have to switch when you get higher end gear later down the road

[lance]

Good point about the constant hardware upgrade cycle. I was doing that quite a few years, but finally settled on an RME PCIe interface about a decade ago. The Windows drivers have always been excellent and you can't really beat the latency performance for those rare occasions you need ultra-low latency. Thanks.

[dmedeiros]

Preach brother!!!! "Work on you're craft." Love it!!

[calebbilti]

The motu is a great futureproof pick if you want to expand your inputs with ADAT. Surprisingly great advice from an Eagles fan :)

[LaidbackSounds]

I have the id22 and the id14 mk2, i prefer how the id22 sounds on the outputs going to speakers, also like the volume knob better

[leebenzonthebeat]

I think getting a decent audio interface and a decent mic preamp will make audio quality better.
I'm using Motu M4 pairing with the Art Pro MPA II.
The audio quality gets better.
If you have the money you can go for an expensive preamp rather than spending way too much on an audio interface.

[jonkthompson]

Im on PC and have had a Motu M2 the same month they were released. The preamps are great, also a very clear and consistent sound for mixing without any coloration.

[shashanksharma]

Very well explained... thanks for such detailed information

[CalebxRashad]

What interface are you using to power that mic?

[BSD]

I switch to all Universal Audio interfaces in my studio; an older silver face Apollo 8 and Apollo x8 on Windows 10/11 PC's using Thunderbolt. They key is to find a motherboard that natively supports Thunderbolt - NOT as an add-on card, but integrated on the motherboard. I chose the MSI MEG ACE Z690 series motherboard for all of my studio PC's and I haven't had a single issue.

[jameswallace]

Good common sense video!
I use the MOTU M4 in my home studio and have been extremely happy with it.

[vanessajazp]

I Used those old cassette-based recorders as well. SO easy and straight forward. Literally plug-and-play.
Getting into PC-based recording has been a long, arduous and confusing journey - largely thanks to constant changes and "upgrades" in connectivity and computer RAM. I've had a Firewire interface now for many years that works perfect. Except good luck getting any new devices that have firewire connections.
So now I've had a MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 4 for nearly 2 years, and there is not a single interface (that I've found) that uses that. There are a few Thunderbolt 3 interfaces and a slew of USB-C interfaces (which are designed with iOS users in mind).

I would really rather just go back to the straightforward simplicity of those older systems.

[joeyvpoisonfree]

Good video man, people need to remember that you can get great recordings with almost anything these days...

[dexondabeat]

UAD is amazing, the apollos are awesome !! even if you buy an old one you will get better pricing then the crazy new price range.Amazing preamps, great dsp and considering how heavy they are to the CPU on Spark i love that i have extra 4 cores for plugins, Zero latency and all. I agree its horrible for PC but its awesome on MAC . And finally yes the Antelope is a great hardware terrible software solution

[StephanPaul]

Wise advice concerning Antelope Audio interfaces. Bought a Zen Go for Christmas ... really bad idea.