Which interface to buy: NI Guitar Rig Mobile or Roland UA-1G

[Fergo]

Hello everyone!

I was looking for a USB interface to plug my guitar in and came across with this two interfaces in the stores near where I live (that fits my budget).

Roland/Edirol UA-1G:
http://www.roland.com/products/en/UA-1G/

Native Instruments Guitar Rig Mobile:
http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/guitar/guitar-rig-mobile/

They cost near the same, but the UA-1G have a bunch of stuff that GR Mobile does not (more inputs, more outputs, sample rate selector, high z selector, etc), so I was thinking about buying it. In terms of quality, is the UA-1G a good choice for recording guitars in a home studio?

Thanks in advance,
Fergo

 

[cjmusicman242]

UA-1G not good for full 96K IN/OUT

Hi I just bought this product a week ago for my Guitar inputs. It does almost everything it says except lacks in the 96K mode, which is WHY I bought it in the first place.

This is a strange product. It will NOT do 96K IN & OUT simultaneously! You can Record but you CANNOT Play. Or you can Play but you CANNOT Record. You can do one OR the other but you cannot do 96K IN & OUT at the same time, unless you ‘flick’ a manual switch on the unit itself. It says so in Owner's Manual itself and you can Download that from the Cakewalk website. Not being able to Record & Play at the same time means you must stop and start your sequencer all the time, very tedious and stupid.

I would NOT recommend this product if you need the full 96K IN/OUT operation. Instead would recommend M-Audio’s 24/96 PCI card. That card can do everything it says it can do. I havent tried the N.I. GTR interface yet so I cant comment on that.

cj