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16 km south of Gent, Belgium
| StoreTags: FCA202, interface, behringer, mbazzy
Author: Mbazzy on February 26 2007 Viewed 1726 times. 3 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Well, I was in need for a simple audio interface and had been contemplating all the usual options Focusrite Presonus, Echo, Mindprint, Edirol, ... with multiple i/o options to come to the conclusion that in fact I could do with a simple 2 i/o box . After much hesitating I bought the Behringer FCA202 .
Have it now for about 1,5 weeks and haven't regretted it (yet ?) at all ... this little no-fuzz box exactly does what it has to do : provide hassle free 2 i/o with a very clear signal path, 12 ms latency ... buspowered ... really nothing to fault ... amazing how they can do this for this price and throw in a Live Lite 4 version (unfortunately not upgradable to Live Lite 6) which IMO is worth the 80 € alone despite the restrictions ....
If you don't record multiple sources (seperatly) at once and can do with the combo of a small line mixer (to open up your input options) and a sepearet audio interface , this FCA-202 is certainly an option that you should look at for the audio interface part ...
You can't find much reviews on this unit as there really is not much to write or bitch about ... it does a simple job as it should ... plug and play (under osX 10.3.9 for me )
Maybe just one little drawback .. there is no audio-control possible on system level : if I choose the FCA202 as standard audio output device, I can only control the volume level from within the application . That's no problem when using audio application, but the volume is very high when you're playing back a/v from within webpages, embedded QT, etc ... | |
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02/26/07
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jogn
Yeah i this looks like the no nonsence kit to bring to gigs as opposed to more expensive cards. BTW is the 12ms latency measured through ableton live or some other application or the audio driver itself?
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tmns
i bought one of these a while ago. it can be a bit annoying, sometimes the latency increases as i'm playing, then i need to de-select the driver in Live, then re-select it again so it goes back to normal. also very occasionaly the sound turns into distorted static type noise, which goes away if you unplug, then replugin the firewire cable.
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Mbazzy
jogn : the latency I've measured is the one in Live . Mind I use Live in a bit of an odd - non/less-loopy -way - as I'm mainly in improvising stuff on the fly so I'm not taxing the cpu and audio engine very hardly . 12 ms always been a reasonable latency , maybe I could even go lower with my specific setup.
tmns : haven't had those problems here ... are you on Mac or PC ? (I'm using the stock core-audio driver from osX 10.3.9 ) . I did read somewhere that the chipset or so used in this devie was an older type or so , maybe this comes to the benefit of the stability (so far) under osX ...
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tmns
i'm on the mac running 10.4.8, forgot to mention, the latency problem goes away if i run Live at 96khz sample rate, but then i can use less plug-ins 
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