Audient EVO 16 USB Audio Interface

This Evo 16 is also much better than the Evo 8 because also is standalone. The Sound is Excellent too!

For being so straightforward... yeah, what an interface! The reviews saying this is close to the top for sound quality at 1/3 the price are pretty much spot-on, from what I can tell, and I'd previously used interfaces from MOTU for decades (and one from the legendary RME). Switching to the EVO has provided me with an excellent, painless and modern experience with drivers as stable as the RME in Windows 11, but a sound quality that has vastly exceeded my expectations. I'm recording high end synthesizers like Oberheim OB-X8 and Arturia PolyBrute 12 and this is working stable and transparent with almost a little magic dust sprinkled in, at low buffer sizes like 64 in Ableton, that is really making these synths shine! The driver updates both itself and the firmware of the device in one convenient step. Recent firmwares fixed any remaining issues I've been aware of being discussed as well. As for the auto-level sensing big green button on the front, I feel that is more for a quick sound check of a live band to start out, rather than being quite as useful with a line-level out item with fully adjustable gain like a synthesizer, but it's an interesting idea. Mostly, this interface just gets you a professional level of sound in a hassle-free chassis at a fair price for this many inputs. It only has one single annoyance where from what I can tell, you need to use the software to adjust the monitoring input levels where it otherwise could have been useful for basic mixing even completely away from the computer since it is powered by an A/C chord and not just USB. When the time comes though, I'll happily buy another or the expansion unit and stack them for more inputs, since I'm now used to their software mixer interface and don't have much to complain about. Although tariff and inflation have been hitting hard, thank you Audient, for the innovation in this space and at least attempting to democratize high-end recording a little.

There are many features about this that are fantastic. For the price point, I’m not sure that you can beat this piece of equipment. It is literally plug and play. I use it as an interface for ProTools 10. With a few minutes of technical adjustments, works flawlessly. For a drummer, it automatically sets levels. The eight inputs are critical for mic’ing six drums with two overheads for cymbals. Highly recommended.

Don’t believe their lies saying it can power up to 600ohm. Sure, if you like having to turn it up full blast, still not driving the headphones to a usabke level , and introducing a shitload if distortion. It was severely underpowered, and because of that you can’t use high ohm headphones because the sonic image will be incorrect. If you are jsut editing it’s not the end of the world but it is unable for even doing levels in a mix. I ended up getting a Schiit Magni to run it through. I’m coming from a UAD Apollo which drives my 250 ohm 880s with sweet robust tone at less than half volume. If you want to k in why I’m going form a pro level interface to a home recording level one it is because while at the studio we have two full size Apollo, at my home mixing desk I wanted to add some 500 rack gear and the small Apollo have only one set of in/out. I do a lot of editing and processing at home with headphones, even mixing and it’s fine. I use sonar works. Something to note, with the Evo you can set your monitoring to the adat channels, then feed that channel to “main mix” which feeds to headphone mix. That way it opens up another set of analog outs that you don’t need to use for monitors. This only works if you are going out into another device for monitors. TPS to RCA works fine form the headphone out into another device. Over all, this unit does punch above its weight. It’s not bad at all, can’t really complain about the converters, they seem to do a decent enough job. I don’t think it compares really to the UAD ones but in an actual mixdown with processing etc I really doubt anyone can tell. It doesn’t seem to introduce distortion or raise the noise floor. I got this unit for $300 using some Amazon cash back money, can’t complain. I dressed the headphones thing because their literature says it can power 600ohm headphones which is an absolute lie. Why would they lie about that, it makes no sense. Just put a headphone amp that can actually do what it says. I almost sent it back because of this but unless I want to buy a rack mount Apollo for the house it’s kind of limited for some thing with a lot of analog outs in the back. You have the motu 16s which also will need a headphone amp c it doesn’t have outs for phones. There are some anteliope audio and rme options. Everything mentions if 3 times the cost of this unit. A comparable cheapy is the presonus is 1824c. The audient is a better unit, that one will also not drive high ohm headphones. Lastly, this doesn’t come with rack lints so expect to pay another $20 to get them. I don’t know about you but I’m jjot exactly interested in having a rats nest of cables sitting on my desktop.

ADAT configuration. Used as expansion unit for Apollo Twin USB. EXCELLENT>

Honestly, I don’t fault Audient or the device itself. I believe it is probably a very solid device. Unfortunately though I think the particular unit I got (which was used, but allegedly in good condition) was actually damaged in some way and having technical issues. it never really worked so I had to return it. I’m bummed because I really was excited to try Audient’s hardware.

It's a AWESOME product, and sounds excellent. Plug and play, nothing to worry about. Great price, I'm well pleased.

Love it. Will get another. Up and running in minutes. I do wish it would save my settings each power down. Like saving a scene.

Best audio interface with 8ins and 8outs, Mixer software is very handy. I recommend from SoundBess Studios Hyd. this audio interface who are looking for presonus, focusrite and motu in Rs 50000/- to Rs 100000/-.

Bellissima, funziona bene, da testare ancora con 8 canali contemporanei, in quanto l'uscita dei dati usb è solo un 2.0

I was looking to upgrade a Focusrite Solo and Line 6 M20d to do some band recordings. One only had two channels and the other while it can work as an interface, has about 2.5 seconds of latency and needed extra gear to get Headphone mixes. I saw the reviews of the Evo 16 and decided to give it a go. Did my first proper recording session yesterday and it worked perfectly; Cue mixes with "more me", simple level setting and instant response. I had never bothered with Talkback before but setting the function button to Talkback using the laptop built-in mic array worked great. What I hadn't expecting to use was the optical I/O but I have connected a Helix to this (with a converter) and it simplifies connections while keeping everything digital. If you need more than 4 channels of input and are working to a budget serious consider the Evo 16

Connaissant la réputation d'Audient en matière de matériel d'enregistrement audio, j'ai regardé beaucoup de vidéos et lu beaucoup d'article sur cette carte son. La carte est belle mais livrée sans les oreilles pour la racker, ce qui vaut un point en moins car c'est un achat supplémentaire agaçant pour qui place tout dans des racks. Le dessus et dessous de la carte sont en métal mais la façade est en plastique. Mais ce n'est pas un inconvénient pour moi car je trouve que le design est sympa. Tout est accessible en façade grâce aux divers boutons et la molette rotative (niveau casques, smart gain, entrées et sorties, coupure des ,moniteurs). Tout se paramètre très vite. Le smart gain est une pure trouvaille qui évite le clipping et donne une qualité d'enregistrement incroyablement limpide et neutre si on n'utilise pas de préampli en amont. Mais attendez-vous à devoir remonter le niveau de vos casques car on se rend vite compte que les niveaux d'entrées baissent pour éviter toute saturation numérique. Je cherchais surtout une carte avec alimentation fantôme par canal. Et non comme ma précédente presonus sur laquelle on doit choisir par tranche de quatre, ce qui n'est pas pratique et nécessite de jongler avec les entrées micros statiques et dynamiques. Le logiciel de routing peut être déroutant au départ mais des vidéos explicatives sont disponibles sur Youtube. Je compte acheter la SP8 pour travailler avec du matériel analogique externe.

Gran calidad de sonido. Se actualiza solo al conectarlo al PC. Fácil de configurar. Los phantom sin ruido. Entrada de dos auriculares independientes. Para tener ocho entradas ocupa poco en la mochila.