I've always tried to avoid Behringer gear for a multitude of reasons -
spontaneous failures requiring human intervention aren't really
something I enjoy on gear which -should- run unattended for months on
end continuously. Since they're also aiming for the absolute lowest
price point the quality takes a hit, too - I have a UCA202 and it's not
exactly great, though it's managed okay for a few recording situations
where I've had nothing better to use. Their quoted SNR is 89dB with
-77dB of crosstalk, which is... acceptable, but nothing more. Lack of
proper balanced I/O is also pretty crap - some of the situations I'd
want to use this sort of card include 10-20 metre (or more) runs, where
it actually matters if you're balanced at either end. Needing an
unbalancer in front of the card is kinda what I'm trying to avoid here
to a large extent.
Certainly the UCA202 and friends are better than many motherboards' on
board sound cards, but I'm still not sure if I'd want to rely on them as
the primary input for an encoding system.
Cheers,
James Harrison
On 25/03/2012 18:05, Simon Frech wrote:
I've been using the Behringer UCA202 for over two years now to get
analog audio into an iBook to create a stream. It has gone into shock
3 or 4 times, (starts distorting badly) but after a reset it will run
for days, weeks, or months. Haven't had to deal with it for many
months now, it just works. Looks like there are now a couple of
slightly different models.
http://www.behringer.com/EN/Category/Recording.aspx?s=R200
Simon
On Mar 25, 2012, at 7:32 AM, al davis wrote:
On Sunday 25 March 2012, Cowboy wrote:
On Saturday 24 March 2012 09:51:04 pm James Harrison wrote:
Just hunting around for cards for a streaming encoder and I
simply can't find anything close to this - everything's
got big friendly gain knobs or the connectivity sucks or
it's absurdly expensive.
Outside of a professional environment ( and a few places
within ) it seems there is use for a USB "sound card" with
nothing more than analog/digital conversion.
No gain pots, or anything like that.
Could be mic or line level in, and line or "head phone"
level out, but NOT pre-mono "for your convenience" as it's
not to be used with a web-cam.
Apple iMic ??
I wasn't impressed by the quality, but other than that it seems
to be what you are asking for.
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