{"id":874,"date":"2007-07-07T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T15:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2007-07-07T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T00:35:02","slug":"review-tascam-us-122l-usb-audiomidi-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Review: TASCAM US-122L USB Audio\/MIDI Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never quite been able to get CD-standard recordings out of my computer – until now! Yes it’s a new toy, a TASCAM US-122L <\/strong><\/a>– and I really wasn’t sure how it would go when I bought it based on internet reviews – via eBay. So what is this thing? It’s a device to plug your musical instrument or microphone into your computer via USB and it converts your analogue input into MIDI input. <\/p>\n

\"TASCAM <\/p>\n

Until now, I had been using a small four channel mixer into the mic input of the iMac. Previously, there has always been a bit of hiss or noise from the desk and effects pedal – always low, but present. This is the first time I have had truly clean signal input via the USB port with a two-channel midi interface. <\/p>\n

In the box is the TASCAM US-122L unit, a USB cable (which powers the device as well as provides input-output) three CDs – one to install the driver, one to install Cubase lite and one to install GigaStudio3.0 – for windows machines. I was mainly interested to see how it would perform with Tracktion studio recording software – having just upgraded to Tracktion3.0<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

After installing the driver on the mac, I plugged the TASCAM unit in and it lit up straight away. The device can take two inputs – and it has both jack and canon sockets. It also has a switch to provide phantom power for mics that would otherwise need a pre-amp.<\/p>\n

There is also a headphone socket so you can hear either the input or the output to the computer – or a mix of the two. The device has almost zero lag or latency, and the sound is very clean – no noise or hiss at all! <\/p>\n

The Tracktion studio recording software was able to take the midi input without difficulty and I was quickly able to get some nice clean recordings – so perhaps a CD is not out of the question now. Here is the whole recording studio!<\/p>\n

\"TASCAM<\/p>\n

Overall, the device is compact, and it performs its fairly simple function of taking your analogue instrument input and turning it into clean digital signal very well indeed. <\/p>\n

Okay, don’t take my word for it – have a listen to my fairly average playing of Ashokan Farewell<\/strong><\/a>. I thoroughly recommend this device if you are thinking of recording sound on your computer.<\/p>\n

Cheers
\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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