Behringer External Sound Box

Using the Behringer 202 USB audio interface

As explained in the manufacturer's literature for the Behringer 202 USB audio interface, this small unit offers excellent transfer of my analog audio cassettes and vinyl records. I had been using a long drawn out process of recording from analog to a CD recorder, and then editing to extract each song. Still, this has to be done even using the UCA 202. In conjunction with this unit, I use Audacity Audio App to record from tape and vinyl to my computer. The UCA 202 copies the music superbly. Audacity has many attributes to edit the music. These two in combination allows you to work with your music before you burn it to cd or other media. In closing I would definitely recommend the Behringer UCA202 to anyone who still has analog media. And finally, a big thumbs up for Walmart for providing the opportunity to me to order at the store and pick up later.

dancre . Review provider: walmart.com

Works great allows me to use my iPad and connect to the main mixer or sound system at the club and DJ using my iPad

DJChukkles . Review provider: walmart.com

UCA202 Audio Interface great for Home Studio Use

Pro: Easy to set up, great tone quality for price ( if you want Boise quality then lay out Boise bucks and buy top quality Studio Equipment - otherwise this unit is great for Home recording of (Guitar) or other instrument to Computer for the average user. I ran my guitar and mike through my 4 line input mixer and ran the output through the uca202 into my laptop. I use Cakewalk but you can download Audacity for free for your audio software. Great buy for the money. Con: Not Boise quality ... lol.

blc1839 . Review provider: walmart.com

Good but NOT great

The reason I would not recommend to a friend is because most of my friends probably could not get this puppy to work in a week or a year. It is not exactly plug and play as one might expect. As it turns out the UCA202 does not come with any owner manual or much help for setting up and using it for that matter. And it was not easy to get it to work correctly either (at least not in my case). In my case all I really wanted to do was to simply capture some good old analog output from about 50 of my old 33 rpm LP records, via my good old turntable, pipe it through my stereo amp and on out to the UAC202 which would, supposedly, convert the signal in stereo (two channels) and output it via the USB connector to the PC when running the correct software to capture said inputs and save them, eventually, as a .WAV file, etc. That was the goal. Getting it done, however, was not a piece of cake, as advertised. For openers, the signal piped in to the PC via the USB was completely distorted because my basic receiver/amp boosted it too much. It apparently overpowered the UCA202 which then sent a distorted signal to the PC. As a result I thought I set things up wrong and uninstalled all the software and started scratching my head and spending hours searching the web for clues and answers. Finally, after a bunch of trial and error, a light went on in my head and I managed to re-install the following software and re-route the turntable output via a different path on the stereo system and managed to get things working OK. Read on... To make it work via my HP Pavilion G6 laptop (the only PC I could easily move next to my stereo and turntable in order to hook things up... and, BTW, you better have some long stereo connector cables handy as well... also not supplied) I finally figured out which driver to download and install and how to setup and configure the correct audio capturing/editing software; i.e. a copy of Audacity in my case... which seemed to be the easiest one of the bunch to learn to use, etc. First, I suggest going here... http://www.behringer.com/EN/Category/Recording.aspx?s=R200. From there click on the UAC202 image which will take you here... http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA202.aspx Then click on the Downloads tab. From there select, download and install a copy of the driver and a copy of the Audacity program; depending on type of PC you have. Install the driver first. Then the Audacity audio capture/editing software. But, keep in mind that you will also need to run Audacity with the UCA202 totally hooked up as well (it must get its power by plugging in the USB connector which should also let your PC, and the driver, etc., know it is alive and ready to tap into for a signal) and that you must, initially, go into FILE + PREFERRENCES (when running Audacity anyway) and select the correct input device via the Audio I/O tab and the Recording drop down options. You will probably want to also select the Directories tab and supply a place for temp files to be stored which you can easily final later... keep reading... Once you correctly configure the Audacity program (and the driver is correctly installed) then your next problem will be to figure out how to LOWER the volume, or signal power, of the signal coming into and passing through the UCA202 before the capture program gets it. Good luck with that. If you have an equalizer or some other way to control the signal, fine. But, in my case, I ended up having to route the signal through my good old reel to reel tape deck (if I did not have this I would have been returning the UCA202 for sure) and from there to the UCA202 because that was the only piece of equipment I had which gave me a way to reduce the volume level of the turntable output before sending it to the UCA202. By dialing down the volume to about 1/3 of what was coming from the turntable and receiver/amp I was finally able to capture a decent recording w/o any overloaded distortion. Now, one more thing. The Audacity program, once set up and working correctly, is pretty slick and easy to use for both capture and editing. HOWEVER, I found that it often dies after capturing a song/cut, or an entire set of songs/cuts into memory. VERY frustrating. You can click on Record and capture 30 minutes of audio data and then, when you hit Stop, the program promptly dies for no known reason. 30 minutes wasted. And it leaves all the recording files on the target temp folder... so you better know where it is so you can manually delete them, stop the program, start it again (to free up any memory or errors) and try, try again... even though the program will let you know if you have old temp files... etc... etc... I found that the program fails like this about 10% of the time. Long story short... When Audacity works and all is configured and wired and set up correctly it will (maybe) function without any distortion and it is actually quite fun to use. But 10% of the time you better count on performing a redo.

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