Interface Questions: Behringer U-Control UCA202

Posted on Sep 24, 2006 10:18 pm
kramer
Member Since: Sep 24, 2006

Hi. I searched the forums and didn't see any posts about the new (I think it's new) Behringer USB audio interface. Link below:

www.behringer.com/UCA202/index.cfm?lang=ENG

I was curious if anyone had any experience with this interface. I did notice that in the specifications document on the Behringer website the A/D conversion S/N ratio was 89 dB. Is that a bad number? That seemed kind of bad to me... Of course the device's cost is $30(US), so I guess you can't be too picky in that price range.

My second and main question: is an USB audio interface what I need? I have a condenser mic and a few line level sources that I run through my mixer(with phantom power). I want to record onto my laptop and obviously can't use the factory microphone input on the side of the laptop. I'm not in a band or anything and only want to record the stereo output from the mixer onto the computer for one track at a time multitracking(i.e. I have no need to record more than one (stereo) track at a time). So is the usb audio interface what I need? From what I understand, it is like a sound card, but external. It will take the analog stereo signal from the mixer convert it to digital and send that digital signal to the computer? Then I could use my Cool Edit Pro to capture whatever's coming out of my mixer? Then if I hit play on my recording software the digital signal will go out to the interface be converted back to analog and be sent to whatever monitors I hook up to the interface outputs. Is this basically how it would work?

The Behringer interface that I mentioned above does not have a pre-amp, but that shouldn't be a problem right, if I already used the pre-amps on my mixer to get everything up to the right level?

Thanks for reading. I wanted to consult some knowledgable people before ordering something and finding out it won't do what I thought it would.

-Kramer

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