Audio interfaces aren't what you think they are! #microphone #musicproduction #audio

1. $2000
2. $60
3. $130
I was surprised the $60 sounded warmer

Also the driver, and CPU weight

Bro this is hilarious wtf

Cool. Thanks

Honestly the behringer one sounded the most natural…kinda wild

The Neumann was simply louder. Psychoacoustic effect: Louder = better

Gain and compressor difference. Dont waste your money

I have the 60 dollar one, I'm on my 6th album , it works just fine

interface = Analog > Digital

Fantano??

My phone speakers just told me that Neumann rocks

Please tell your followers to do the test with their eyes closed, then you don’t get fooled by the name tag

Mine is $4K but has 32 ins & outs. No doubt someone who knows what they're doing could do magic with a Scarlett 2i2.

And smart use of an eq can practically level out the playing field, sure its an extra step to get there soundwise, but the listener doesnt care about the process, just the sound theyre hearing. Id get the middle priced interface myself and make do, its still cheap.

Spend 5 minutes with an eq and save a thousand dollars... At least.

The Neumann sounds like shit on my redmi 11 5g.. honestly the $60 sounds best on my phone speaker..

Pops right out. Neumann blows the others away. You get what you pay for.

Neumann is transparent, UAD is transparent but has coloring.
Volt, SSL are coloured.

They all sounded the same to me.

Neumann does everything better

Surely u could eq / compress to get most of the way there with the Behringer?

Neumann sounds impressive but $1000 impressive NOOOOO

To best honest your tone of voice on the last one is markedly didferent. You speak with a lower tone that sounds warmer. There is no way the neuman alters the sound to smooth out the highs we heard on the first two so dramatically and the timbre is clearly different.

To start, you be lucky to get the drivers for the $60 interface anymore. At least I couldn't find them for mine.

You didnt even gain match? Or maintain distance? Yikes

Its because the neumann have on board effects so its dialing in a better sound.

Wonder how that Neumann would sound with a bass DI going through it

never forget, mic distance makes huge difference. notice how the behringer one he's speaking a bit softer and moving away from the mic, then to the audient, he's a little closer and more consistent with mic distance, then moving to the nuemann, idk if he bumped the gain or it's just louder than audient

Love this kind of short form content. Keep it up, dude! Very informative and to the point!

the nuemann signal is clearly a bit louder

What about the most important D/A and A/D that’s where “most” of cheaper ones fall down

Bravo, you accomplished in a very short video, summing up the difference in range of interfaces. Well done.

People noticed the difference because you showed the price along with the audio. Do it blind like spectresoundstudio does and watch these fools pick the wrong sound lol.

What about the DAC?

I heard jo difference

The second was brighter the Neumann had more depth.

Holy crap I just noticed you cause I have your cover of flume by Bon Iver in my playlist 💀

do you think you could get the cheapo interfaces to sound the same as the expensive one using EQ?

It would be so interesting to do a comparison between these mic preamps by recording a white noise source into to the same exact microphone from the same source/distance etc., and then comparing the eq curve of each. You could also then apply an EQ curve to the cheap "neutral" mic pres and compare that to actual expensive mic pre's, and see how the difference stacks up then.

You wouldn't necessarily need an amazingly flat white noise source either so long as you're controlling all the variables the same for each comparison. I know that that's a bit nerdy/in depth but I'd be super interested to hear it. Obviously mic pres are more than just EQ, there's all such of other stuff going on too, but it would be interesting to hear how discernable the “other stuff” actually still is once you've compensated for EQ effects.

I have crap Logitech speakers hooked up to a macbook. I couldn't really tell the difference. Also, I am old and my ears are beat up. I guess the last one sounded a little brighter and cleaner, but maybe that is peer pressure.

Talk like a person.

I'm looking for a audio interface to record a 4 person podcast. I don't want to buy a crazy expensive used for music and all that when I don't need to. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Very nice, though you can get there much cheaper on any of these with processing if applicable

So what your saying is that you use the Neumann for your videos, and it sounds to me like Joe Rogan probably uses the same one 😆

If anything you can show off your $2000 paperweight

I have found that most audio interface’s mic preamps are too bright and sibilant with dynamic mics, to my ears.

My sister's middle name IS Gertrude! And I call her Gerty to piss her off!

I don't hear a big difference between any of them