Behringer U-PHORIA UMC204HD Review / Test / Explained

Today I review the UMC204HD. One of the best budget interfaces I have tested to date. Thing offers quiet midas preamps, low latency, windows & mac compatibility, and a wide variety of I/O. The one area it falls short is on the instrument inputs. Other than that, this is a great device!

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[DjangoFlaherty]

A couple of inaccuracies here.
1. The mono switch is for monitoring of the inputs, not the outputs. In stereo it pans input 1 to the left and input 2 to the right, for if you've plugged in a synth or game audio for example.
2. The A/B switch is for switching between outputs 1/2 and 3/4 in the headphones, not for switching between speakers at the back. To use output B you have to choose 3/4 as your outputs in software. A DJ would use output B to pre-listen to songs before playing them to the audience. A band would use it to send themselves a metronome that the audience can't hear.

[jacquismusic]

Man thank you so much! I’m buying my first lot of recording gear and been SOOOO overwhelmed about all the choices. Then I found your channel and I know everything I want now thanks to your videos. Goodness can’t thank you enough! You’re awesome 👊🏻

[Mrblackhawk]

Greetings from 2020, this interface is no longer $80 USD, it is $129 USD! This has been a public service announcement from your friendly audiophile. Happy recording.

[chriscarlisle]

I was just looking at this on amazon, thanks for the timely review!

[photorooster]

Great review, right to the point! I began with the UMC202HD then Upgraded to the UMC1820 for the 8 inputs then later tacked on the ADA8200 for 8 more via ADAT. Even though Behringer is notorious for terrible manuals they provide a good way to get into home recording at a reasonable price. YouTube has more then enough tutorials to make up for the lousy documentation. Keep those doobliadoo reviews going!

[najwan]

Damn u helped me sooo much when picking interface

Thumbs up and subscribed

[vivianwhite]

I haven't yet decided on which first interface to buy, but, man, your reviews have been so helpful! Thank you so much for making these detailed videos!

[edman]

I appreciate you putting out these reviews! thanks bro. keep them coming.

[David_Logr]

I have this guys bigger brother UMC404HD, and I love it! the value is insane for the price

[mattg]

Another great review, this almost made me jealous/worried I've just ordered a UMC22, but I think that too has an all metal chassis with the same midas preamps, so hopefully the build quality will be decent too now.

Overall I'm gone for a budget starter setup and picked up the generic Knox Dynamic mic off the back of your review too, (knowing I've got a fair amount of ambient/background noise to contend with) and it is already by itself a decent step-up in quality from the simple headset mic I had been using.

So with this and the knowledge I've gained from the reviews and podcasts, all I can say is thanks for all the efforts you've been putting in!

[noreensuyudy]

Just got this interface and dont know how it worked until this video! Thanks man, i subbed and liked!

[Soldier_Sean]

I have this and it's been awesome for the 3 years I've been producing with it

[MrHamit]

Wow dude this thing's epic! also I love that you get 192 KHZ 24 bits quality for only $80. Way too cool. The NT1 sounded pretty good on this as well.

[ScottGrammer]

I have the four-channel version. Absolutely love it. I use it mostly for transferring obsolete audio formats to digital.

[noahsimau]

I think I will actually get this for my Rode NT1-A. Thanks again man!

[TechBoss]

Right. I think i know now, wich Interface i need next... :) thanks! :)

[DCWelker]

I just got a Behringer UMC202HD for $50.. so happy.. good review man

[NWGR]

Awesome review. Seems like a solid interface.
I've been very happy with my mvi; no windows driver issues like a lot of these usb interfaces.
That said, I'd love a yamaha AG03/06 review. ;-)
I'm still contemplating getting one of those.

[stephanosphilippou]

Thanks for making this amazing video.
I would love to know if you have the time, how the latency is on this device in ableton. Also, I want to listen to a metronome in headphones whilst having a separate out channel. Does the phones output get separated from the masteroutput in DAW ? Thanks

[snehalsamarpit]

Hey, greetings from India. Could you please do a 2i2 vs umc202hd as both are budget oriented and lots of people get confused over another.