The Behringer U-PHORIA UMC22 Audio Interface - Music Gear on a Budget #2

Welcome to my Music Gear on a Budget series of videos. Today we're taking a look at the Behringer U-PHORIA UMC22 audio interface.
This particular sound card can be used to record anything you like thanks to the mic input and line input on the front. These preamps also sound great to my ear. Even with the cheap microphones, I am using in this video the audio quality is just as good as my regular audio interface.
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[@DestineChinae]

Thank you! Thank you for understanding that 100 dollars is not budget!

[@pocky4512]

you know that when he made this review when it was 39$

[@Qejee]

You realise that budget doesn't mean "CHEAP" someone can have a $10,000 budget and someone can have a $100 budget

[@DestineChinae]

@@Qejee but when you type up budget the cheapest ones come up first. I know what A budget is but a budget something is supposed to be cheaper and affordable for the average person.💕

[@mrlionel1965]

When he did the review, it was $39. If you check eBay right now, there are a ton of audio interfaces just like this, or similar for around $50.

[@Phober]

Agree...100$ is not a budget ...more hard if people like me not from country that use dollar :")

[@selw0nk]

For $2 that microphone sounds so good.

[@loganhasbrouck]

There is so much his in the back

[@loganhasbrouck]

Mb for responding 3 years later lmao

[@drewrenditions]

yes dude

[@Liza-pw4ie]

I may be dumb but is there a link to the mic somewhere? would appreciate it very much

[@lordsiomai]

@@Liza-pw4ie by the looks of it it seems to be one of those mics from the BM line. they're really cheap, but mine (a BM 800) starts at around $11 here in my country. so there's a chance the one in the video is a different model or a pre-owned (maybe both).

[@chriscooper9108]

Phil Mcknight and your channel are two of the best channels out there.

[@DMSProduktions]

Sounds GREAT Shane, I have found you CAN'T go too wrong with a lot of Behringer's studio gear! All the stuff i have just works and sounds great!

[@dijjidog]

this is a brilliant video I was browsing to see if a similar xlr setup like this one was worse than a usb mic and he actually ansewed the question, wow

[@gregdayley4653]

I've got the dual input version of this and so far I have been very happy with it. Shane you should do a budget camera video to go along with this setup. Great Video! My only critique would be: I would have liked to hear an AB of the Beringer and the Steinberg Keep em coming!

[@igetnoviews]

the best budget camera at the moment is the canon 200d!!! you absolutely cannot go wrong with it🙌🏽

[@LeoWang28]

Yeah but what have you used before? It is pretty common to say ? "oh I love my digital guitar effects" when you have never played a real tube amp.

[@intheblues]

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[@landonbailey]

intheblues $39 sounds like a great deal. all the recordings sounded pretty good! great series 👍😁

[@utubehound69]

You should do the U-Phoria UMC 202 HD at lest or a 204HD about $50 - $70 they do 24bit 192K. All I own are rock solid I have the UMC 202 to the big one the UMC 1804 24bit 96K you lose the 192K on this unit it has 8 Midas preamp inputs & light pipe ADAT for 8 more Mic Pres. No Drivers needed w/Mac. These are far superior to the UMC22 it's only 16bit 48K maybe they changed the specs to 24bit now?

[@utubehound69]

@Lando27Music If you get one at lest get the UMC 202 HD it records & plays back @ 24Bit 192K. The 204 HD has inserts on both chn's & MIDI I/O. At lest I know the UMC 404 HD has MIDI I/O they can be had for under a $100 & a cheap as $50 for the 202HD New. I shy away from The UMC 22 being it's only 16 bit* 48K Note*( they may have up them to 24bit) vs The UMC HD versions that do 192K at 24Bit for the rest of the HD line of UMC save the UMC 1804 Mack Daddy that only go's to 96K 24bit. 8 chn's w/ADAT for 8 more mic pres. Most will never use the 192K in their recordings . It doubles as an Audiophile grade DAC unit. I turn a couple of audiophile on to the UMC202HD & they freaked how much better it sounded than three digit DAC's that run up in the hundreds of dollars. Then sometimes you might want to record @ 192K like just an acoustic gtr w/a vocal , or your client wants to recorded at 192K imo 192K is over kill imo & take us a LOT of space on you SSD/HD to think just a 15 years ago to get 192K 24 bit interface you would shelling out some serious money. Win Win on The UMC series .

[@edtek22]

Maybe stupid question but does the unit output 2 separate audio tracks on the USB cable so something like Audacity can adjust track volumes after recording?

[@intheblues]

If you have two mics plugged in for example you can output the left track to one track and the right to the second (so yes). The other option is you can record to a stereo track using both inputs. Most people line up a mono input track and then select which input (L or R) they want to record from.

[@catman6089]

my first interface was the Behringer UM2 which is basically the cheapest piece of plastic on the market. Didn't work half the time, and the other half it sounded fuzzy. After that I upgraded to their UMC404hd, the 4 XLR version of the one you're reviewing. Sounded amazing, loved it, and had a ton of flexibility with the I/O. Now I have the 1820, the 8 XLR version, and their ADA8200 preamp. I love the sound I get through my interface and preamp and I love that in this day and age, I can get 16 XLR inputs for barely $500

[@EmbelekoBand]

Great video. What's more interesting is how you integrated the first music gear on a budget purchase with this one. Thanks Shane.

[@jamalabdul2009]

Awesome series Shane! I really want start posting videos and this Behringer sound card looks like a perfect way to get started. Inexpensive gear that performs well is the name of the game when your budget is tight! Thanks again for the great videos!!🎸🤘🏽🎸🤘🏽

[@intheblues]

No worries man. This is a really good choice for getting started. I could use this as my main rig as well and it would do the job great.

[@lincolnjohnson6511]

I'm helping a buddy setup a home studio in his house. These videos are very helpful for him!! More please!

[@zfxpedals]

After accidentally frying my last audio interface (incorrect power supply) I got the Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD (the model up from this one). Not the greatest audio interface ever made, but perfect for what I need and at a good price point. Thanks for doing this review.

[@intheblues]

Thanks mate :-)

[@patricksclarke]

I just started playing guitar a few years ago and decided to be budget conscious until I got more comfortable. Grabbed the UMC22 and it works great! No problems whatsoever. It was a review like this that got me to buy it. Thanks! 🤘

[@jcheney2473]

great series. i'd love to build a million dollar studio however, here in the real world where I live it's great to see that there are alternatives to my real world budget. thanks.

[@BenBurkeSydney]

Shane - thanks for this and the podcasting on a budget video... that led me to buying the kit you recommended in the podcasting video. And, well, this is embarrassing... I was in a horrible loop of trying different combinations of older, not supported Behringers USB drivers, ASIO4All - and I was going in circles with low or non-existent mic volume. Read endless online postings complaining about the lack of drivers. Then I watched this video. And saw that you had the 48v phantom switch turned on! For some reason, I was convinced that this might have been a bad idea (I've zero experience with XLR mics). During your vid, I saw the 48v led glowing at the front. I switched it on. And everything changed for the better! And here I was thinking my MAC-o-phile friend (coming to work on a poddy with me tomorrow) was going to have a last laugh about Windows USB microphone drivers.... I'm now in good shape - and surely, I won't be the only person to make this mistake! Cheers

[@Finzun]

The best and the first audio interface I've ever bought. I don't feel like upgrading to Focusrite.

[@abrahamtalamantesramirez2032]

I'm actually building a home studio and your videos are very helpful, got myself some Behringer pedals and they did not disappoint, thanks for putting the time and money so we can be better informed as consumers, cheers!

[@sirshadowplay7287]

a friend has one of those and i've used it, it's pretty good for recording on a budget and it's pretty straight forward and easy to use

[@intheblues]

Nice! :-)

[@WoahBoomshakalaka]

Really like this idea for a series! Build your own cables kit? THE 2$ MIC RETURNS!

[@intheblues]

It's still working great too. For $2 it was deal of my life haha.

[@backspin6698]

Great video. This will help many first timers I think. I have a Behringer onyx mixer, like it a lot.

[@youknowhowirollwiththeflow7416]

Music Gear On A Budget videos is just a very nice & thoughtful idea on your behalf. Looking forward to every future video on this topic. Two thumbs up. 👍👍

[@suhailcouto1832]

Both are arriving Saturday!!!! Thank you Shane for sharing!!!

[@robotx4242]

Cool. I bought both of those products a couple of weeks ago, the Pyle mic and the Behringer interface. I haven't had time to hook them up yet but I'm glad to see I didn't make a bad purchase. I'm building my first home studio on the cheap. These kind of videos help a lot. You should review a cheap condenser mic too. The $12 - $35 range. Many come in packages with shock mount and pop filter. Thanks Shane!

[@Benry1]

My only complaint about having this card was that Windows 10 had a bug when configuring this. It installed it as a 1 channel input, so for months I couldn't record both channels at a time. But once I figured that Windows issue, this little card has been GREAT for 2 years so far. And surprisingly good build quality for the $35 i spent

[@Tipcyjaej]

Please how do I figure out the bug. Can't reord proper

[@MitchHaman]

Great video Shane. I have the Behringer UMC204HD and it works well and maybe better then my Focusrite Scarlett Solo. My favorite audio interface is my old Yamaha Steinberg CI1. I mainly use mine for guitar rig5.

[@intheblues]

Thanks for the info and feedback Mitch. Great to know the Behringer holds up well to the Focusrite. :-)

[@jakeschleifer1303]

I find it hilarious how I actually use the Pyle mic and this behringer interface as my recording setup. good combo though

[@jarodfleming1210]

I have both the Pyle mic and the identical Behringer UMC22 interface. It's a good beginner setup. I'd also reccomend a $19 Behringer DI box for recording clean guitar tracks simultaneously to the mic'd amp. This gives you the option to re-amp or try different plugins.

[@nickardasis4]

I'm just starting to build my own bedroom studio after years of playing and I love this series. Can't wait to see more. How's the UR22? I'm thinking of getting the Behringer UMC404 which has 4 I/Os and is dc powered plus it's much cheaper than the Steinberg or the Focusrite. I'll be getting a pair of JBL 305s as my main monitors/speakers.

[@intheblues]

The UR22 is great. I liked the first UR22 so much I ended up with two of them. I can't hear any difference between the UR22 and the Behringer but the drivers for the UR22 are much easier to get up and running. I think the Focusrite stuff is good but it's not better than the Steinberg stuff even though its probably more popular.

[@garrettendi]

The UMC404HD uses different drivers to the UMC22. The latter uses ASIO4ALL but the 404 uses Behringer's own proprietary drivers. It's much easier to use and the settings to manage latency and buffer sizes is really simple. I would strongly recommend the 204HD or the 404HD, as they are cheaper and just as good IMO as the "bigger" brands. That then leaves you more money to spend on a decent mic! The only gotcha is they've changed the drivers recently. I'm using version 3.29.0 with my UMC204HD and it's great, but I can't vouch for the latest version.

[@connorsme71]

I have the 404HD and it works great with Reaper!

[@tomjohn3364]

This is a great idea for a series. I'm on a very limited budget. This is very helpful and can't wait to see what's coming next.

[@Juliang61]

Great idea for a video, thanks . It's nice to see that budget alternatives exist.

[@intheblues]

Thanks Julian. :-)

[@CraftyOldGit]

I'm surprised more people don't talk about or recommend this I/F. It's less than half the price of a Scarlett Solo and it sounds just fine. You helped me decide on the Behringer -- thanks.

[@KevinBlank]

Love this series. Keep it going!

[@EmilianoSpunk]

I'm loving this new series :)

[@anejo333]

Love this series! It's great to see budget friendly gear work and have it turn out decent. I have to work a lot of overtime for gear purchases. I'm not trying to be cheap with my gear but I have to be able to play the game. I can get laughed at on jam night because a play Bugera and Joyo but sometimes you can win their eyes over with sound. All thanks to you Shane I owe you a few

[@MikeFromNashville]

Great video. I love the new “budget” gear videos your doing. Thanks Mr. Shane.

[@fubarcomm]

Shane, this was a great video, nicely done! Great series in my opinion. I've been looking at this unit myself for bedroom playing over headphones, however it would be using the Red Box DI output from a guitar amp. I'm more confident than ever that this will do the job, and won't cost me half a mortgage payment! Thanks for this and all you do. Love the channel!

[@dejasoul1949]

Wow Behringer really have come a long way, time was you were really really rolling dice getting any of their products, the Midas preamps sound really good. What a time to be a live, can get decent sound on a budget compared to even 5-10 years ago!

[@MarcRead]

I'm really enjoying this series and can't wait for #3

[@anthonyleavingtexas]

Bought the mic last week and really like it, I’ve been looking for a cheap interface so I can stop using my Eleven Racks as an interface. Thanks for the demo and review!

[@n97223]

Nice review, I like this series a lot! Thanks for all you do to share your experience!

[@johns4751]

Awesome piece of beginner/budget gear. Thank you Shane!

[@VincesWoodNWonders]

Great review and very reasonable price. I did not know it existed. Grateful for the channel,Shane and the review.

[@thedeadxtras9927]

You love featuring your Stanley knife Shane, maybe you should do a review on Stanley knives and equivalents.

[@gizmogadgetgeek1191]

Absolutely LOVE this series! Keep going man, love the channel! 👍

[@Lucky13vwr]

Perfect timing, ive been looking at these but was unsure, its on the purchase list now

[@martinshewfelt1236]

Nice ways to test it. Good to see that it's very capable, especially at that low price point.

[@martinbeaudry9475]

Good job as usual... really enjoy those reviews as a budget musician myself 👍

[@mayconguita]

Amazing results. You could make a video using the interaface with plugins like Amplitube, guitar rig, bias fx etc. It will be great so we can check the latence, quality e anything else. Thanks.

[@JulianPatrickBronteGlenn]

Good work, Shane. Great series.

[@intheblues]

Thanks a lot :-)

[@BTTBMusicProject]

Wow, we just bought our UMC22, our sound quality just increased :D we are reworking our old songs with it :) Thanks for this vid, I checked a lot of them to be able to decide which is on a budget but still cool :)

[@mmmm_cookie_lord]

UMC22 is actually a pretty good interface. Midas preamp that is used here is waaaay better than Xenyx that they use in UM2. Good luck in production :)

[@nwkmike]

I’ve used that $2 mic and the same interface for a year and my music came out close to professional I recently upgraded my equipment though.

[@bruhlollmao560]

your $2 microphone is the one i have now, can't wait to pair it with umc22 i ordered.

[@stu-j]

Always know intheblues will have tested something I've just bought and have no idea how to use! I think I've downloaded everything I need to use it with guitar and monitors... cheers brother 👍

[@gabeatv]

Very nice review. Thank you! Already bought the Pyle mic. Might give this audio interface a shot, too :).

[@matthiasdeigner]

Thanks for the review Shane! Just ordered it!

[@Setright230]

Great review, I do like my scarlet 2i2 which looks similar. Thanks for sharing but as looking at maybe the cheap mic and good cable for some basic amp hook up to my MacBook Pro and logic x. Love your channel.

[@alexcarpen3201]

Hey Shane, great series. I would like to see a head to head vs the steinberg if you ever have the time and consider that an interesting idea. Thing is, the spec on the behringer is lower and i am interested to see if the bit/hz difference is noticable over youtube, or if you can hear any difference at all. Cheers

[@BigWelshMark]

Nice review Shane, we'd bought one of these little beauts for our daughter and are using a very similar mike to your $2 one and sit the whole lot in a vocal booth - the results are spot-on for the money, and recording and post-prod using Audacity is a breeze. Great starter set-up, thanks for the video ;-)

[@simplyjustkd]

That sounded incredible for a $2 microphone.

[@henryhartley9993]

Sounds great Shane, talking of budget gear, I finally found a Peavey studio Pro 112 red stripe, you are spot on this thing is a monster!! Cost £70.. bargain....

[@simonoosterman2456]

hey shane. firstly, nice fresh concept with the budget series. looking forward to it. what i'm really wanting to know is, what drum sound / sample am i hearing with this video? sounds wicked. cheers for what you do mate. Also loving the three amigos thing you are doing with ryan and ric on your other stuff. works really well. never mind the guitar stuff, when it comes down to it, the main reason im watching is i like the people i see. cheers

[@intheblues]

Hi Simon, thanks for the kind words mate. The background music is thanks to the free music library on KZbin. I have a lot of them in my collection. I think the kinda cheesy one is called "Bumper Music" from memory.

[@tcorcoran1]

Great review. Had been thinking about purchasing. Sounds great.

[@TheRealReTox]

I've got the UMC404HD and like it quite a bit, does all I need it too.

[@sirbaronvoncount4147]

Thx man I needed this exact info.

[@FaustoGenovese]

Awesome review! I'm going to buy this Interface for recording voice & guitar. I wanted to know, for guitar.. Is it better to use a mic on the amp or plug directly to the Interface and use some post-production software for achieving the sound i want? I've also got a Marshall Code that i could plug usb directly also, so i have 3 options of entry. But i don't know what would be the best. Any advice ?

[@lukaszskalikow2094]

Very useful. I think you convinced me to buy that interface. Thx!

[@j_music_8779]

Great review brother! I am getting this for sure. 🤘😎🤘

[@JaxDagger]

Did you use this on a mac or a PC? just i have heard there are issues with the windows 10 drivers, thanks in advance. great video btw, that mic is just... how is it so CLEAN sounding damn

[@Ashkim5]

.

[@b.j.thomas8606]

Sounds great for me! I am looking for a very low priced interface to play guitar with a freeware amp sim. (wife now works at home = low volume!)

[@thenowherestairs]

Great unit!

[@stephenharding6493]

$39 and it has a Midas pre-amp. Not bad at all! Need to ask Stu, where are you finding this for that price?

[@intheblues]

All the links are in the description. 😄

[@krypshock4216]

great thing to get started

[@gusarmstrong563]

Very useful video. Thanks for posting it.

[@SymbolicSplenetic]

I have a UMC404HD, bought it for 120 canadian at the time....tested it up against my Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL .....and just like that, sold the Audiobox for i think around 400ish. The behringer sounded better as per both myself and several people i had listen to some recordings. This was years ago, and still never had any problems.

[@livvy94]

What would you suggest for recording a stereo input? I'm hoping to digitize some cassette tapes, but I don't want to use one of those tacky walkmen with a USB plug glued onto them

[@dragonAwkward]

Damn the guitar tone sounds to great

[@danmar007]

I'm digging the jacket.

[@boxcarstewart311]

But does it djent?! Okay, Im done... Seriously though, super helpful series for us frugal players, Shane!

[@intheblues]

lol :-)

[@codyrap95]

Shane, of course it doesn't "sound" bad, especially for the price this interface is fantastic, but the real elephant in the room you should've addressed is the noise floor, the actual sound is more dependent on the microphone than the interface, because the main "problem" of cheap interfaces is the quality of the preamps, respectively the noise level and you didn't touch at all on that or at least give us a few seconds of silence to hear for ourselves. I hope you will take this into account for your next videos.

[@jacobdavid]

Good video. Informative. How does the U-Phoria UMC22 compare to the Neewer Phantom Power? Do let me know. Thank you.

[@sportshub04]

Nice one! Good videos. It helps me a lot.

[@KozmykJ]

Chances are that mic cable has two inner conductors that would allow you to go fully balanced if you changed the jack for an XLR connector ; or had someone do it for you if you haven't passed your Sloddering Iron Pilot's Test... A quick unscrew of the jack plug would tell you.

[@toastyslugs9170]

Bruh, how the heck did this triple in price in 1 year

[@aronchas]

Just what I need. Thanks Shane

[@markgiles8527]

Which should you get, A USB Audio interface or a small portable Amp, one like Yamaha is selling? I'm just learning guitar, an electric. I am keen to look at Garage band on the Mac Book.

[@SBArtist]

Just shows its all about quality over quantity when it comes to gear you buy

[@fandydawenan]

Hi sir, you have confinced me to buy this. Thanks 🙏😀

[@contrarian875]

Hi Shane, at 0:42 you mention the cheaper soundcard, I assume the UM2. I have checked the specs and the only difference I can see is the pre-amp (Xenyx vs. Midas designed) and the outputs are RCA instead of jack - am I missing something? Thanks.

[@Andrey.Balandin]

Shane, no video about audio interfaces is complete without reporting what's the lowest latency you can get and what ASIO driver sample rate/buffer size settings you need to achieve that. You can certainly get decent enough preamps and ADC/DAC in this day and age, but I think latency is what sets good cards cards like Focusrite apart from the rest of the crowd. Behriner didn't even bother to develop a proprietary driver for their card and rely on Asio4All - that sounds suspecious. I saw some review of UMC22 before that the latency wasn't that great at all which would precludes the use of this card with real time digital modelling and effects processors (BIAS, Guitar Pro etc.). So what were your findings?

[@od628]

Superb! Thank u! Just bought.

[@mokiloke]

Did you plug the guitar into the Mic input as its looks like its the only input that has the preamp? Im just setting up now, and having a closer look im thinking there is only one Midas preamp and its on the Mic input and not the INST input. And does the guitar need a preamp?

[@Vizbiz]

The sound card is $130 on amazon, and $50 on the given links now, wow.

[@mikefalconer7978]

Nice Video series. I ordered one before they sell out.

[@jazzylei143]

Wow. Will this be usable for live application? I wanna use my plug ins.

[@genehullinger9614]

Great review. One question I have is how would the instrument line perform with a guitar going through the Audio interface then into a DAW for those of us who would use one of these to record guitar?

[@aeroshack9181]

Exactly, loads of mic reviews through this kit, few if any with instruments.

[@rockindavebyron3960]

Hey Shane, this is a great series because, as you know, some musicians budget is limited, I think this helps big time! Keep up the great work bro, I've always liked your presentation, rock( Blues) on!!!!

[@canterburyaudio5836]

Cool vid! May I ask what kind of camera is used for this vid?

[@intheblues]

It's a Panasonic GH5 with mostly their 25mm f1.7 lens. 😄

[@canterburyaudio5836]

intheblues , tks!

[@danmath01]

Exactly what I needed as I'm contemplating buying the Pyle mic and this audio interface. Now I'm not sure, given that I just want to record one guitar, whether I should buy an audio interface or just an XLR to USB cable ...

[@Craig_Fussell]

Great series man! Looks like you’re enjoying the experimentation too! Heh, now you just need to pick up a dirt cheap guitar (maybe one of those Walmart “Gibsons), put a good setup on it, play it through ToneBridge or AmpliTube on your iPhone and A/B it against your high-end set up! 😉🤙🏻🎸

[@ectyka]

Wow awesome review brother