Any opinions on B&H's suggested audio interfaces for less than $500?

35:04And for the record, this question has the most upvotes of the day. Alexander, what's your thought on it? Yeah, so they list a bunch of interfaces here from Universal Audio, starting with the Volt series. These are great interfaces, very, very high quality. The preamps sound nice. Build quality is great. I will just say they did just release the Gen 2, So that article does not mention these newer versions of the Volt interfaces, which I'm not going to get into because we don't have time for that.

35:33And then they also compared it against Audient, which is a British company who, by the way, started making high-end analog consoles. And then, much like Solid State Logic, went the opposite way and started coming out with consumer-grade, more affordable stuff. I really am a fan of the way the preamps sound on these. if you're into MIDI or have MIDI devices, synthesizers, keyboards

35:56Audient is not for you they are an analog audio kind of very simple company, they don't I don't know what it is that they seem to object to MIDI but there's no MIDI on their interfaces at all in any of their products and then of course there's the SSL interfaces, also a great choice and here's the thing these days and of course the classic Focusrite Scarlett

36:17they're all fine, I mean they're all all fine. They're all going to sound slightly different. The thing is that when you walk into whatever your dealer is that sells these products, whether it's Sweetwater or B&H or Long & McQuaid up here in Canada, you go into a recording department in these stores, the whole wall is full with interfaces. There's like a bazillion choices. And the reality is

36:38they're all pretty good and they're all sort of in the same price point. Yes, I will agree, some sound slightly better, some have slightly better features. Like the SSL's monitoring control section is really, really cool. But they're all pretty good these days. So I would say just don't focus too much on, unless you need something specific like loopback or something. I would say, you know, once you get these interfaces,

37:03you can, much like on the last question we talked about, it's not always the gear. Just be creative, focus on creating stuff. Don't get too bogged down on having the latest and the greatest. Yeah, sometimes the features you benefit the most are kind of hidden in the software. Mickey? Yeah, I have to agree. With anything listed here, you'll be happy. I can't recommend a specific model without knowing the specific requirements of the audio interface that you have.

37:36But in terms of preamp qualities, they're roughly around the same. I would say though that if you want full analog control the SSL to I have a bunch of them there they have every every single function has a knob or a button and I believe with the volt it's the same is that correct Alexander yeah yeah physical game control yeah there's there's no like

38:00weird rotary multifunction like confusing yeah I'm not a fan of I like everything as much as possible having their own encoder or knob or potentiometer or fader or whatever. But again, preamp quality-wise, they're all within the same realm. Courtney? Yeah, I'll defer to the audio experts here on the quality of the preamps. You know, No one mentioned the Behringer Flow 4. Now, all criticism aside, they have updated the firmware.

38:39It now works almost properly as a production recorder, but using it as an audio interface, it has decent preamps. It has four inputs. It has XLR inputs. inputs. It does, you know, it does the, you know, can handle 48-volt phantom, and it does auto-mixing all over USB ports. So, as an audio interface, yeah. And as far as the Audient ID4s, you know, I kind of like the design of this because it blends perfectly with my