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TASCAM US-200 Review / USB 2.0 Audio Interface

2012-12-16
hey YouTube what is up this is bronies you just coming back to you guys today with the last review on audio okay so these this this here is a USB 2 audio interface device it is the tax can us to hundreds now this can be had for about 130 dollars and a good thing about this is guys is that it has 24-bit 96k low Hertz in and out of ADCs and DACs on board so it's going to process that signal for you and then it's going to send it to your computer via USB ok so let's have a look first off the box is pretty well packaged you know I can't it looks good the box looks good and it has a little bit of explanation on what it comes with now it comes with a USB cable and it comes with your CDs and you you Cubase le 5 so this is the unit itself though let's have a look at the main unit itself this is the reason why you guys are probably here this thing here is pretty well I like the feel of it it's got rubber feet on the bottom there it's pretty well constructed it's a hard plastic so it feels really sturdy it is pretty light and I will say that I like it better than the m-audio FastTrack it feels better it's bigger and you know looks it looks a lot better to the m-audio is really small it's probably about this is this size here so the end of audio is a really small unit this is a lot bigger now let's have one of the features on what you get to you guys so basically this is Teac the brand's Teac and now you get here you've got the headphones level so you can plug your headphones directly into this so I'll show you here so you can plug the headphones straight in there guys and then you can thanks to directly control the headphones with these the level here they're not so you do that try a stereo jack and if you don't have one you can get them for pretty cheap as they plug that in you can directly control that's pretty good the level if you go to max guys it is definitely loud enough if you know I usually leave it about here as Max tends to be too loud for me so anyway guys this here's the next feature I want to talk about and that's the more you know the main mix or the you know the mono mix or whatever they call it but resolute to the right is input so if you on the right guys it'll basically get the signal from your computer so you can listen to your headphones from your computer and if you move it all the way to the right it'll give you the direct feedback from the unit itself before it goes the computer and I think it's a pretty stupid thing to have a knob for this I don't understand why they didn't just have a switch to have you know unit but earth or computer so if you if you've never for instance if you knew that he asked it'll get a bit of a bit of feedback from here and then it'll obviously get the rest of it from this computer so sort of like mixes it's pretty stupid I think it's a stupid idea but anyway that's not to worry it works so if you put in the right computer left direct you know direct listening from new device now it's got a 48 volt phantom power on both these lines here you guys and we'll let you know here with the switch whether it's on or off so very good very easy to use and USB so let you know when it's connected to the USB device by this light bezel it's the on button yeah so that does run off USB power that that's how it works so hey guys the next thing here is the signal line number one so line number one guys it has the signal so to let you know when it's connected and working and I mean sorry let you know when you when you speak into the microphone for example this signal line up saying hey we're getting the signal it's working this will be the clipping so the red will say hey it's clipping now you've got to turn it down a little bit so it basically tell you when it's distorting so basically the problem I had with this guys and I don't know if anyone else is having this problem but I think I'm gonna have to get a track change is that this 2 unit pacifically guys when I turn this up to max it has this annoying buzzing sound and it doesn't exist on line number two it only exists on line number one I turn it to max it will have this annoying buzzing sound and only when the phantom power is on so basically goes with this and the I you know I had another problem with the m-audio fast track and that it just didn't work on skype and you know I'm on Windows services a little bit the drivers on the m-audio didn't work the m-audio was crystal clear this the drivers work well but the problem I'm having is just this you know I want if I pay 140 bucks per sign under 30 bucks I want it to work properly and so this is the one problem I'm having at the moment is this little noise here so I'm going to get it try to get exchange for another unit and see how that goes anyway not to worry this is the line number two works but the problem is is that line number one is the default input so if you're using Skype or be calling someone or you you're talking on Google hangout line number one's going to be the default channels for that so if you're online them trees no one's gonna hear anything so that's why the line number ones it's so important so hey guys why Samba 2 is the same thing it works perfectly so line number one obviously you've got the option there of changing it from a microphone to an instrument okay so you've got the option there and now the next week's case you've got is mono and stereo so it'll change the channels to mono or stereo depending on this switch here so it's good if you're using microphones you just change the mono and will give you mono signals so a very good feature guys overall it is packed with good features it is a solid unit it has a lot of features on it goes the audio on number two is crystal-clear so I just think I've got a bad unit and obviously going to exchanges and see how user number 2 goes and then I'll get back to you guys but anyway let's do a little audio test on line number 2 so you can see how clear this thing sounds and obviously guys if you've got any questions about this unit pacifically please let me know this will be the last of my reviews on audio tech and you know because I sort of I had you know I realize that onboard audio has this week amplification and I've I've been on this quest to fix it so I've got this in the process and this thing is really good except I just got this problem here on line number one so anyways if you have any questions about this unit please leave them in the comment section below I'll get back to you as soon as I can and obviously if you got any clip any other things you want to know please let me know and I'll get back to you as soon as I can hope you enjoyed this review today guys and peace out for now Brady's yep from now on through the next you know me I'll just endure quick tests as you know let you guys know how clear the microphone is so this will be on line number one number two since line number one has this weird buzzing noise so hope you enjoy the test guys and peace out for now wait okay guys so this is a quality test on the US 200 tascam so I'm using a bearing of b1 and ya guys hopefully it sounds good the volumes on about might say about four-fifths of the way up so it's pretty loud like the actual input knob is turned up pretty loud so hopefully it sounds really good as it should be for a hundred and thirty dollar unit so yeah guys I hope you enjoyed this review and if you have any questions please let me know in the comment section below peace out for now Brian easy bite
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