Audio Interface choice?

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Hi everyone, Don't know if anyone saw my post in the "Newbies" section but I basically had a problem with my Yamaha Audiogram 6 audio interface which was an annoying high pitch buzzing noise in the background of every recording I did... I am now looking for an audio interface which has no background noise (or minimal) so I need your guys knowledge to help me decide what to get!

At the moment I am in a price range of below £150 so I am interested in either the Tascam US-600 or the Focusrite Scarlett (2i2 or 2i4) - I have heard some good stuff about both but obviously the Tascam has 2 more inputs which is handy as I am going to be using about 3 mics for drums...

Does anyone know if either of these produce background noise? Apparantly running by a power supply (The Tascam US-600) is better than just running by usb as it produces less background noise...

I was also wondering if I could run the Shure X2U usb (I recently won it!) at the same time as another interface or this not possible?

Many thanks for any replies!
Harry :)
 
Hey there.

Do you get the annoying noise when using headphones into the interface?
The reason I ask is that the rca outputs on that interface wont be balanced. If you use those you're more likely to have noise issues than if you used balanced outputs.
I don't know if the jack outputs are balanced or not, but it's something to think about anyway.
 
Fair enough.
I've never heard anything about that interface, but I've never heard anything but good news about either the tascam or the focusrite.
They're both great rep devices.
 
Yeah same here, Guess I will just have to see what others have to say about this one..!
 
I use the roland quad capture and love it, It's usb powered, has a HI-Z input for recording DI and the digitally controlled compressor is surprisingly good, also the preamps are VS pre amps and they are really clean... I'd recommend it...
 
Whats everyones views on the Alesis io4? Looks like theres lots of stuff on it - But whats the quality like? Any background noise?

Thanks,
Harry.
 
I have both the Scarlett and Saffire Pro 24. Like them both. If you can't make great recordings with these, it's not the gear :-)
 
Beware the Alesis stuff if you plan on using it with ASIO... They don't supply ASIO drivers and you are left to the open source ASIO4ALL if you want to use it with anything near low latency........
 
I've been using the Saffire Pro 40 for a while now and think it's great. I would expect the smaller Saffires to be just as nice.
 
I just bought Tascam US-600 (US600) yesterday.
Had a lot of hum on guitar input first, was considering returning it.
Used a different laptop and noise is gone (I can hear it on maximum gain ony and even then i need to really listen).
I guessed my older laptop's power supply is bad but the same (slightly different) hum is there even running laptop on batteries.
Using a better quality guitar cable helped a lot as well, but at the moment I can't really use older (2003 Pentium 4 Toshiba Satellite A60-106) laptop for recording.
Everything absolutely fine with a 2011 Samsung Pent i5 laptop no hum.
Interesting that mike input (balanced) is absolutely quiet (no noise at all) on old Toshiba... :-) Go figure.

Also having driver issues on Toshiba Wn XP SP3 - keep losing connection to Tascam but not sure if this is "operator" error.
Question: anyone have Tascam US600 running on Windows XP?
 
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