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M-Audio Fast Track MKII
Behringer U-Phoria UM2
I lost my M-Audio Fast Track MKII on the road while gigging, and it was the best audio interface for its price I had come across over the years, I bought it new for only $80 back in the day.
I went online and to many shops to get a new Fast Track, but it turns out that the good old Fast Track MKII is nowhere to be found, I found one on Amazon but almost double-priced, the used ones are also ridiculously expensive.
So I found the Behringer U-Phoria UM2 which has a solid price, even cheaper than the Fast Track I had. Getting a new Behringer UM2 would cost almost one-third or even one-fourth a new Fast Track.
I am just wondering whether Behringer UM2 would give me the exact tone and sound as Fast Track MKII used to give me? Does anybody have any experience?
Behringer UM2 is completely identical to Fast Track in terms of specifications, both are 24-bit 48KHz. But Behringer is only 40 bucks while Fast Track was about 80 bucks back in its day.. Is something fishy here?
I don't want to spend the money on Behringer to only bring it home and realize it's no better than the recorder app on my Android (and believe the recorder app on my Android is fantastic for demos). I really want to go for the Behringer UM2 if it as good as the old MKII in terms of sound and tone. I am recording prog rock, metal, and jazz; NOT pop/hip-hip/rap, so you get the picture. I have many layers and HEAVILY distorted instruments, and harsh vocals, etc. Sometimes I have three different distortion pedals and two different reverb pedals connected to my electric guitar, and that output used to go DIRECTLY to my Fast Track MKII (WITHOUT any microphones -- just DIRECTLY to the instrument/guitar line of M-Audio Fast Track) and Fast Track MKII was doing a good job for its price capturing the sound, tone, warmth, solidness of the sound, etc.