UCA222 USB Audio Interface, 2x2 RCA to USB Converter for Analog-to-Digital Audio Recording on PC and Mac

I bought this Behringer preamp specifically to digitise my vinyl collection, and it has exceeded my expectations. The setup was incredibly straightforward, and the sound quality is crisp and hum-free. It delivers clean amplification that captures the genuine warmth of the records. If you need a reliable, budget-friendly preamp for recording vinyl, this is a no-brainer.

I bought this to enable a stereo line input on my laptop, which like most modern laptops lacks such a facility. It works out of the box with no need to install drivers, although you can install the ASIO For All software if wanted (a separate and free download). You will almost certainly need to go into the Windows sound device settings and configure it for two channel (stereo) recording, since Windows seems to assume all sound input is mono. It has a "monitor" facility, which means you can plug in headphones to the 3.5mm stereo socket on the back of the device and listen to the sound it is capturing, a useful feature. Stereo recording and playback both work very well and bypass the limitations of standard laptop sound hardware with ease. Out of curiosity I wanted to see if it would work as a souncard oscilloscope input. I already have a "real" oscilloscope so don't actually need such a thing, but it does perform reasonably well as a two channel scope, albeit limited to audio frequencies (20Hz to 20kHz) and 1Vrms signal levels. The sampling rate and Windows recording volume settings need tweaked to get this working well, 4 to 8kHz sampling rate and volume setting of 35 resulted in a 1kHz sine wave being well displayed on my laptop. It's obviously not in the same league as a proper scope, but for simple work on low level audio frequency signals it could be useful at a fraction of the cost. This doesn't come with any software CD. I already have Audacity installed on my computer and it works fine with that. I am no audiophile so I cannot say how it works with other applications, but for my purposes it works perfectly and the price is hard to beat. Possibly those requiring more sophisticated studio level facilities will want something different but for casual home use it really is a winner and I don't hesitate to recommend it.

I just wanted to wrote a quick review to give an oversight and correct some of the nonsensical reviews on here. I have seen loads of off-putting reviews on this site about this unit and most of them seem to be problems with the end user. Let's address some of these: * "Doesn't work with Windows 10": It does work with windows 10. I plug it in, I have a USB Audio Device. i am running these units with Win 10 / Win 11 and Linux. There's no problem. * "They're not low latency": Meh, with the stock windows driver (plug and play) they're not noticably latent. I you need ultra low latency, download the ASIO drivers then! * "It's in MONO!!!": Yeah, Windows has a tendency to sometimes see new audio devices like these as, basically, USB microphones. i had exactly this in Windows 10 where I was getting only left channel inpt presented as both left and right channel to the computer. You need to open the sound settings in Windows, find the USB Audio device and select 2 channels and the sample rate you're expecting. If it's set to 1 channel this is exactly what happens. It's a 30 second fix if you know what you're doing! * "Crackles, buzzing etc": use decent shielded cables then. If you are linking things together that span devices with their own power sources and you're getting that weird "cpu noise" interference (like on old sound cards in PCs) then invest in a USB ground loop isolator. It will break the direct ground between a USB device and the ground on the audio input and fix the problem. This is basic audio stuff. Read up, noobs! * "It doesn't have standard instrument ports on it! What are these 'RGB' connectors???": Good lord it uses industry standard RCA phono connectors LIKE VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING ELSE WITH LINE IN AND OUTPUTS! You can't plug a 1.8" jack from a guitar into this thing, it's not a guitar pre-amp!!! Ok. On to the review. I have bought three of these devices which I use on a variety of computers for streaming video and various audio work. For the money (£18 new / £14 used at time of writing) they're amazing value. Sound quality is great. 16bit / 48kHz sampling - probably all you're going to need if you're operating at this price point. They for working with line level audio. Both input and output sounds spot on. I find them to be low noise and low latency for what I do with them. They have an actual volume dial on them and a headphone jack which makes them good for listening to music from computers with horrible on board sound etc. The headphone jack doubles as a monitor when the monitor switch is set to on. I bought my first one of these units probably over 10 years ago. I've not had a single problem with any of them and the subsequent two I bought were in a lovely red colour and second hand on Amazon. I have only one gripe with them, so read this it will save you a LOT of time if you happen to be using them in the niche case I was using one of them... I have some real time compression software running on Windows and a dedicated little PC which I was using to provide some professional level dynamic audio compression. I was using one of these devices to feed audio in, compress it and feed it back out again, as these things work bidirectionally. The compression software was set to pull up quiet audio. I had some really weird issue where I was getting some really peculiar low frequency noise showing up in this situation and it took me ages to get to the bottom of it. The problem seems to be there is some leakage between the input and output, something that isn't normally noticeable in most setups however, it's a big enough problem to make using the device in this configuration impractical. The same thing goes for when I am using the device as a USB input, feeding audio in via Voicemeter Potato into the compression software and recording this to disk (whilst monitoring via the same device's out put). When I stop and start audio abruptly I can head a short echo effect, which puzzled the heck out of my for ages, thinking I'd messed up something in the software set up, however the problem was due to this slight input / output crosstalk. I wouldn't have even noticed this while recording the audio as the echo is quiet and masked by the main audio but it would have been there to some extent in the recording. Simply not using the output as my headphones device to monitor the recording, fixed this. This doesn't appear to be a fault with the unit. I got the same thing with all of them. So beware. But the chances are that you will never encounter this problem, however I am sure I have since read someone else mention it in another review but I can't find it any more! Hopefully that covers everything. I love these devices. They're no-nonsense and just keep on trucking :)

I’m using this to record my old vinyl records into digital files which I can play on my phone and other devices. I’m very impressed by it. My record player is connected to my NAD3020A amp. I’ve connected the Behringer UCA222 to the Tape ports on the back of the amp using my own amp cables, and then connected the Behringer to my Windows 10 laptop using its USB cable. On my laptop I’ve installed the free Audacity software for doing the recording. It’s all working wonderfully. I’m very impressed by the sound. Of course, you are not going to get the quality of a modern high-definition audio recording, but I think the Behringer is giving a very faithful recording of my records. Setting up was far easier than I expected. Other than downloading Audacity, I didn’t need to download any other software or drivers. The only glitch was that the sound was initially being processed by my laptop as mono. Looking some helpful reviews, I realised I needed to change to the settings for this recording device to “2 channel 16 bit 44100 Hz”. To do this on my laptop (others may differ slightly): open the Control Panel; from the Sound menu choose Sound Control Panel, then choose Recording. From the Sound pop-up window, select Microphone 2-USB Audio CODEC to open the Microphone Properties, then select the desired 2 channel 16 bit setting from the Default Format panel. Having done that once, I have not needed change it since. Although no software is supplied with the UCA222, the recommended free Audacity is good. It looks a bit daunting at first, but the basics are pretty simple, with an interface similar to a tape recorder. And there are some simple inbuilt tutorials to guide you through some other things you might want to do, such as click removal, channel balancing, track marking, and removing inter-track noise. I was hesitant to buy the UCA222, having read some of the reviews that encountered problems. However, for my needs – recording records via my amp – it’s working superbly.

I bought the UCA222 to connect the 'tape' outputs from a HiFi amp to my laptop for digitising LPs. It's extraordinarily good value! I see it's increased in price to around £17 compared to the approx £12 I paid, but that is still amazing value! I know there's a specific version of this device which takes a turntable phono output directly with the required RIAA equalisation, but I didn't want to have to keep disconnecting the turntable from my amp. This does the job perfectly using Audacity to capture the audio. It has a headphone output to make monitoring easy too. The audio quality is excellent. I've tested it with both Mac and PC and it just works, with no drivers to install. Fabulous piece of kit at a fantastic price!

Did what I wanted it to do. I have no clue about audio interfaces etc. but simply wanted to record playing my piano keyboard - recording the audio, not the midi file - without playing out loud. This was perfect. Plugged into the audio out on my keyboard (Casio CT S1), plugged the USB into my MacBook (with a little dongle to convert the USB to USB-C) and it worked perfectly with QuickTime. Also worked on my iPad with Audacity. Super simple, sounds good to me. And could hear my playing as I recorded with my headphones plugged into this device. You do need the cable to connect the keyboard to this though - that's not included. Amazon Basics 3.5 Aux to 2 x RCA Adapters, Audio Cable for Amplifiers, Active Speakers with Gold-Plated Plugs, 2.4 m, Black worked for me (was one of the recommendations by Amazon for buy together)

Im only using this device in a limited way, based on the description of what else it can do. It is taking the USB output of my laptop and converting it to an optical output, which I am sending to some active speakers, and also it gives me headphone output. It's a brilliant bit of kit, it works without drivers plug and play. The optical output allows the better DAC in the speakers to give high quality sound. But also the direct headphone output (which uses this products own DAC) deserves credit. I was using an Arcam rdac which converts from USB to headphone output, which gave very good audio quality, however this device though perhaps not quite as good is much (much) better than the headphone output on the laptop. I mainly purchased this to go from USB to Optical and it works perfectly. It also has RCA outputs and inputs which i may use later, it all looks very well made so no doubt they'll work fine as well. Top product. Update - 10/10/2024 - I am now using the RCA inputs to take the audio from a TV, and the RCA outputs to go to a smaller speaker in another location. Such a brilliant device, 2 inputs (USB+RCA), 3 outputs (Optical, RCA and 3.5mm headphone). Still working perfectly and all powered by USB. I can listen to Teams meetings over headphones, music with the optical out to a nice set of speakers, listen to the TV mixed into my laptop output, and listen to meetings in another room using the RCA outputs. I might even buy another one as a spare.

I bought this device to let me plug an old mixer into my Windows 10 laptop. I found it worked very well once I had cleared the hurdle of locating the right drivers. The manual states that "the device requires no special setup or drivers". This is only partly correct - Windows does install a driver but its for a USB microphone, which is useless. After a great deal of searching I finally found the required drivers on the Behringer site. To find the right one, search for U-CONTROL UCA200-SR. This allows the download of the driver called BEHRINGER_2902_X64_2.8.40 (for a 64 bit system. 32 bit drivers are available too). Annoyingly the manual doesn't mention any of this. Luckily it only has to be done once, but the website and manual could both do a better job of pointing users in the right direction.

Placa de som muito boa, realmente o som sai bem mais nítido e agradável, maior potência no alto falante externo, se usar um de boa qualidade ou fone de boa a excelente qualidade é uma boa decisão.

Qualité prix au top, je l'utilise pour numériser mes vinyls

Interfaz básica pero perfecta para sintetizadores, ya que no requiero preamplificadores. La calidad llega hasta 16 bits pero nadie notará la diferencia en trabajo casero. Excelente producto.

werkt prima

In breve. La mia esperienza col prodotto è molto positiva: in relazione al prezzo speso (ma anche se fosse costato qualcosina in più) si ha tra le mani un prodotto di una discreta qualità costruttiva, bel design, supportato da tutti i recenti (e anche non recentissimi) sistemi operativi e che fa il suo dovere senza dare problemi. Di negativo solo il fatto che il PC Windows7 su cui l'ho installata la indica con un nome diverso rispetto a quanto riportato sui manuali (ossia la vede come "Driver audio..." invece di "Behringer..."): nulla di grave, solo qualche minuto in più perso all'inizio credendo che "Driver audio" esistesse già in precedenza e aspettandosi di trovare un device chiamato "Behringer..." Dettagli aggiuntivi. Lati positivi: - Ingresso e uscita analogiche stereo con materiale di qualità adeguata, uscita cuffie con volume indipendente e switch per decidere se avere in cuffia un direct monitor dell'ongresso o lo stesso segnale mandato sulle uscite. - Alimentazione con USB 1.1 significa grande compatibilità anche per chi abbia ancora dei computer con porte 1.1 e 2.0 e ha molti dispositivi 2.0. - La qualità audio non ha niente da ridire (ok, se la paragono alla mia Avid che costa almeno 50 volte di più parliamo di qualcosa di diverso), ma qui si tratta di ingressi "linea" e non microfonici, per cui Behringer non fa fatica a mettere dei convertitori A/D (e D/A) economici ma molto performanti anche su alte frequenze di campionamento. Come lati negativi, a parte quanto già detto sulla documentazione, direi che abbiamo altri due: - Il "software incluso" di cui si parla sullo scatolo altro non è che software freeware (o shareware) che devi andare a scaricarti sul sito del software stesso. Dal sito Behringer ti fanno solo scaricare una versione di Audacity che non è nemmeno la più aggiornata - Ha un uscita ottica/digitale (spdif) ma purtroppo non un ingresso... avesse avuto anche quello sarebbe stato il massimo ma, ripeto, per quel prezzo non si può pretendere molto.