USB SoundCard - VISTA compatible

Hello all,
I just got Behringer U-Control UCA202 from Amazon.com and hook it up to my Laptop with Vista Home Edition and I am happy to report that this USB device and REW work without a glitch.
No driver to install, plug-n-play out of the box.
The only thing I change is the output properties to "2 channel 16bit 48Khz" under Control Panel|Sound|Manage audio devices|Recording.

The Behringer has 2 RCA inputs and 2 RCA outputs so you don't need to use any RCA Y adapters.
The price is cheaper than other USB sound cards mentioned here.

Just want to share this to all of you.


Edit/Update: I meant to say the input properties is changed to "2 channel 16bit 48Khz" (not the output properties)
Cheers.

[Ricci]

Good news Vtroneg! Can you post the Behringer's FR?

[carls64]

I wish they supported Mac OS though. Anyone know of an external card that does?

[carls64]

I wonder if this would do the job?

http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=209&subcategory=668&product=15913

The Behringer U-Control UCA202 should work also for Mac according to it's packaging box. I can't confirm that though since I don't have any Mac.

Here is the product link:
(It should have the info for Frequency Range I think.)

http://www.behringer.com/UCA202/index.cfm?lang=ENG

I just got a new PC running Windows Vista and was surprised to find that I can no longer record streaming audio from the Internet. At first I assumed this was due to an inferior sound card/software (Sigmatel HD, came with the motherboard). After reading some good reviews of the Turtle Beach SRM, I found the "USB SoundCard - VISTA compatible" post in this forum - a very nice report on the SRM. But this report apparently shows that not being able to record streaming audio is inherent to Vista. Even with the SRM, there is no "audio mixer" or "wav" input available for recording. These are available on my Windows XP PC, with an old Turtle Beach sound card and Voyetra software.

A workaround for this problem might be to get the SRM, and while receiving streaming audio, have the SPDIF output of the builtin sound card connected to the SPDIF input of the SRM, and set the SRM to record that.

I'm wondering if this has any chance of working - it might if it's possible to have both soundcards and associated software running at the same time. I'd appreciate any comments from you folks on this. If this doesn't work, I'll simply use the Windows XP PC for this purpose.

BTW, I am not interested in doing this as a way to illegally obtain music or any other audio content, but simply as a convenient way to time shift some radio programs. Besides, the audio quality would not be expected to be very good for any streaming content, even if the recoding system is high quality.

Ricci wrote:

Good news Vtroneg! Can you post the Behringer's FR?

I could not create the soundcard cal file for some reason. I follow the instruction and still there is no data. The USB card works alright because I could see the EQ level lit up in REW for the left input channel when I did the measurement. The graph under the 'Scope' tab shown signal alright.
Could it be that's a bug in REW?

However I could simulate Behringer FR by connecting the input and output altogether (Left and Right channels) without any mic calibration (clear mic cal under mic/meter tab) and uncheck 'Use Left Channel as Calibration Reference' under the soundcard tab.

This is what I got for the Behringer UCA202 FR:

[Ricci]

Looks great to me. Very flat from 5hz to 20khz. Thanks for posting that up. Now people scouting around can see what they are getting with that card.

[Rich Jura]

I have a G4 power book and use an Edirol UA-25 with Fuzzmeasure, have not had any problems.

Later
Rich

[thsmith]

+1 for the TB SRM soundcard. Its everything Bruce says. I currently have it on a laptop with XP and wanted something I could move to Vista with later.

Thanks Bruce !