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Old 02-23-10, 04:23 PM   #1
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UCA 202 'Problems and Solutions' with calibration, REW, Windows 7 and more..


Well After 3+ days of not knowing what the was going on with my UCA 202 calibration settings and not being able to get it to work, Ive decided to make a thread so that nobody else has to have the same hair pulling issue like I did for the past 3 days.. Its not that it was difficult, just confusing, when you wonder why so many things can go wrong with such a basic setup.. Well This thread is for anyone who has problems with the UCA 202 wether its Calibration, compatibility with REW windows 7 or Vista..

My setup - HP pavillion dv6 laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium

From the start.. I did not have to Download anything to get my UCA 202 working off the bat, after I plugged it in , it automatically downloaded the settings I needed which then let me go to the first step, which was Going into my Sound Options in my computer


So In your computer go to -- Control panel>Hardware and Sound>Sound then choose the Playback tab then select speaker , Then go to the levels section, set that to 50%, then just make sure all enhancements are off , then Choose the Advanced tab and choose 16 bit 44,100 hz ( cd quality ) sample rate



Then go to the next Tab over which ( in windows 7 ) says recording double click the microphone tab which opens up Properties, Set the levels on that to 50% as well , then go to the Advanced settings and choose "2-channel, 16 Bit, 44100 Hz, CD Quality". As well ( same as the ( speaker/output setting )

And that should look like this





Once those are set, Plug in your UCA then open up REW once the device is recgonized ( Ive had Issues with it not working properly if you open REW THEN hook up the UCA, ) As well as make sure the Monitor switch on the UCA is clicked to OFF Then forsafe measure I reboot, and restart up again. But in any circumstance, only use the UCA in the USB that you initally installed it on. Ive had issues as well if I had changed the USB ports the UCA plugs into


Then open up the soundcard settings ...

Just opening REW




Opening up the Soundcard settings




Then right off the Bat ( if you have windows 7 ) you can try my settings found in the pic below, The fine tuning can be done later but at this point you just want to make sure your UCA is working properly through your right channel MAKE SURE , that the output volume mute box is NOT checked





Then with your right input and output looped together on the UCA click the measure tab then click to the following screens and you should get a measurement like this.. If you do NOT , stop, here and save yourself a few pulled hairs

.. It should look like the pic below




Then it should do a sweep and look like this



and your graph should look like this







If that all worked and you see your graphs and reading like mine, your pretty much good to go. Ill be adding to this as I go and adding more trouble shooting tips and thanking everyone on here who helped me through this myself !



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Don't forget the input side, courtesy of "PassingInter4st":

Control Panel/Sound/Microphone/Properties "Advanced" Tab...
Where it says "Select Sample Rate..."
Click the down-arrow to drop open the selection window...
Make sure it is set to "2-channel, 16 Bit, 44100 Hz, CD Quality".


The UCA202 may have a 44.1kHz native rate (in common with some other soundcards, e.g. my old Edirol UA-1A). Whilst it will be useable at 44.1k or 48k, the results will be cleaner at 44.1k as sample rate conversion is avoided.


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Don't forget the input side, courtesy of "PassingInter4st":

Control Panel/Sound/Microphone/Properties "Advanced" Tab...
Where it says "Select Sample Rate..."
Click the down-arrow to drop open the selection window...
Make sure it is set to "2-channel, 16 Bit, 44100 Hz, CD Quality".


The UCA202 may have a 44.1kHz native rate (in common with some other soundcards, e.g. my old Edirol UA-1A). Whilst it will be useable at 44.1k or 48k, the results will be cleaner at 44.1k as sample rate conversion is avoided.
Fixed Ill add more later aswell.. Just trying to get it out there for anyone else that might have a few issues .. But thanks John, Love the program, there were just some goofy things that I wasn't understanding, So user error was a part of it, along with seeing so many other ppl using so many different settings was what got me confused


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Thanks for making this thread MJ79 I'm sure it'll be a help to other Behringer soundcard users in the future .

( Good to see you now have some meaningfull graphs to share )



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Thanks for making this thread MJ79 It'll be help to Behringer soundcard users in the future .

( Good to see you now have some meaningfull graphs to share )
Thank you , PI, John, Vidmaven, Wayne, glaufman and any others that got me thru this.. Ill add more later, Its time to actually go do some real work now !!


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Congratulations, Matt! I certainly admire your tenacity.

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Congratulations, Matt! I certainly admire your tenacity.

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Haha Thanks For the Guidance thru my little novel of a thread


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Don't forget the input side, courtesy of "PassingInter4st":

Control Panel/Sound/Microphone/Properties "Advanced" Tab...
Where it says "Select Sample Rate..."
Click the down-arrow to drop open the selection window...
Make sure it is set to "2-channel, 16 Bit, 44100 Hz, CD Quality".
This is what messed me up...My other setting are different tha MJ's....but I was able to cal my Behringer UCA202 on my windows 7 laptop...

On the settings menu my "control output mixer/volume" and "Control mixer/volume" are greyed out. My output volume and input volume are greyed out and set to 1. Not sure why..


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This is what messed me up...My other setting are different tha MJ's....but I was able to cal my Behringer UCA202 on my windows 7 laptop...

On the settings menu my "control output mixer/volume" and "Control mixer/volume" are greyed out. My output volume and input volume are greyed out and set to 1. Not sure why..
in order to unshade them , Open the lower dropdown tab and set them to speaker on output and microphone on the input.. I think this is what you asked?

look at my 4th pic if that helps.


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in order to unshade them , Open the lower dropdown tab and set them to speaker on output and microphone on the input.. I think this is what you asked?

look at my 4th pic if that helps.
yep..that worked...


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