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Hi,
I'm a newbie in this forum and regarding home recording as well. What I want to do:
- audio recording digital piano
- MIDI recording digital piano
- playing VST instruments
- recording tin whistle, cajon and acoustic guitar
Already existing (not very much : instruments, Windows 10 Laptop, Marantz MPM 1000, Cubase LE 10.5, 40 years experience as a musician, some weeks experience with recording AND 3 audio interfaces for testing purposes:
1) Scarlett i2i 3rd gen:
2) Presonus 24C
3) Steinberg UR22C
My impressions:
- Latency: I can't hear any differences between the 3 interfaces.
- Features: I miss the blending knob between direct monitoring and DAW at the i2i and a possibility for stereo direct monitoring at the 24c - my digital piano sound awful in the mono mode. The missing roundtrip possibility at the i2i could turn out as drawback in the future as well, who knows.
- Installation: No installation or driver issues with all of the 3 devices.
- Problem with the i2i: In addition to the i2i I need a separate USB-MIDI-cable. And the combination of the 2 of them leads to a problem, namely a pulsed interfering signal on the audio channels of the i2i. The root cause is somewhere in the context of my internal USB hub, the midi cable or elsewhere. But why spending a lot of time for the search if there are still 2 good alternatives.
- Concerns about the UR22C: On youtube is a very good review showing that the preamps of the UR22C are a not that good compared to i2i and 24C: worse EIN values and worse dynamic range.
- Own experience, especially with the 24C: Everything is fine, but when I try to record tin whistle, the recording is way to silent, even if I rise the gain in the DAW to maximum. So I need a lot of compression to get it on a good level. Indeed the max gain of the 24C is weaker compared to the 2 competitors. So I need more of the gain range with the 24C and from my point of view the result is noisier than when I record with the UR22C at similar loudness.
- In all other aspects I could live with all 3 options, but the last point lets tend me to choose the UR22C, although my experience doesn't fit well with the mentioned reviews.
So I'm quite unsure: The existing reviews include much more experience than I have, nevertheless my little experience stays in contrasts to the reviews. Do you have any decision help for me? Thanks
Regards, Chris
I'm a newbie in this forum and regarding home recording as well. What I want to do:
- audio recording digital piano
- MIDI recording digital piano
- playing VST instruments
- recording tin whistle, cajon and acoustic guitar
Already existing (not very much : instruments, Windows 10 Laptop, Marantz MPM 1000, Cubase LE 10.5, 40 years experience as a musician, some weeks experience with recording AND 3 audio interfaces for testing purposes:
1) Scarlett i2i 3rd gen:
2) Presonus 24C
3) Steinberg UR22C
My impressions:
- Latency: I can't hear any differences between the 3 interfaces.
- Features: I miss the blending knob between direct monitoring and DAW at the i2i and a possibility for stereo direct monitoring at the 24c - my digital piano sound awful in the mono mode. The missing roundtrip possibility at the i2i could turn out as drawback in the future as well, who knows.
- Installation: No installation or driver issues with all of the 3 devices.
- Problem with the i2i: In addition to the i2i I need a separate USB-MIDI-cable. And the combination of the 2 of them leads to a problem, namely a pulsed interfering signal on the audio channels of the i2i. The root cause is somewhere in the context of my internal USB hub, the midi cable or elsewhere. But why spending a lot of time for the search if there are still 2 good alternatives.
- Concerns about the UR22C: On youtube is a very good review showing that the preamps of the UR22C are a not that good compared to i2i and 24C: worse EIN values and worse dynamic range.
- Own experience, especially with the 24C: Everything is fine, but when I try to record tin whistle, the recording is way to silent, even if I rise the gain in the DAW to maximum. So I need a lot of compression to get it on a good level. Indeed the max gain of the 24C is weaker compared to the 2 competitors. So I need more of the gain range with the 24C and from my point of view the result is noisier than when I record with the UR22C at similar loudness.
- In all other aspects I could live with all 3 options, but the last point lets tend me to choose the UR22C, although my experience doesn't fit well with the mentioned reviews.
So I'm quite unsure: The existing reviews include much more experience than I have, nevertheless my little experience stays in contrasts to the reviews. Do you have any decision help for me? Thanks
Regards, Chris
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