Volt 476
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Volt 476
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J. Miller
Excellent Interface!
Love this piece of gear!
E. Corominas
Issue with audio quality Volt 476
From the moment I began using the product, specifically testing it on both a laptop and a desktop computer, I noticed an unusual issue with the headphone and monitor outputs. The sound produced is not up to the expected quality. To elaborate, I have compared it with an older, lower-quality audio interface and the built-in audio outputs of computers. Additionally, I've had friends and family listen to it, and we all agree that the audio output from the Volt 476 is subpar. The bass is weak, individual elements are not well-defined, there's a lack of clarity, and the stereo image seems to be lacking as well. Essentially, it sounds as if the audio is compressed.
While I am not an audio expert, this perception has been consistent among myself, my friends, and family over the past two weeks. I don't know if this could be an issue with drivers or if there might be a specific fault with this particular Volt unit but i couldn't find any customer support to ask.
h. clift
Volt 476
What a stunning, beautiful piece of hardware. The ease of use is an added bonus to the amazing tonal quality of the Volt 476. Sadly, this interface did not play well with my PC system. After months of troubleshooting, PC system optimization, I was unable to successfully track without digital artifacts. My retailer even swapped out my unit for a newer one and although the artifacts were greatly reduced, they were not completely gone. My friend has the same interface but uses a Mac based system without any issue. I'm truly heartbroken that I can not use this unit. PC users, beware.
C. Fellows
Volt476
Great Product. Great Company. Getting all the free plugins from Spitfire Audio was the icing on the cake.
J. Wilson
product came broken
Product was defective and i asked for a return which is now being "inspected" by thonam before giving me another one and its been a month i payed for it and still got nothing.
Thanks.
J. Wilson
product came broken
Product was defective and i asked for a return which is now being "inspected" by thonam before giving me another one and its been a month i payed for it and still got nothing.
Thanks.
L. Pelchat
Almost good, but with too many Issues
I’ve had this interface for roughly a year and have used it in a countless amount of circumstances. Overall, this is close to being a very good interface but it’s issues may not be worth the price.
Pros
- Excellent sounding DI for instruments like bass and guitar, possibly class leading
- built in compressor really handy when using with apps such as zoom or discord where digital routing is not feasible or easy
Cons
- discrepancies between preamp gain levels and noise levels on each mic pre and compressor. Quality control issues make this a no-go for stereo recording
- ‘device activation’ required for the hardware is pretty ridiculous. I run this in a shared space and we are all unfortunately having to constantly deactivate/reactivate the serial number on the interface. The hassle has moved us to other interfaces and in my opinion is an unacceptable business practice on UA’s part.
- Headphone amp is lacklustre and probably the worst of any interface I’ve tried. It lacks a lot of detail and my MacBook pro’s high impedance headphone out is substantially better to the point of avoiding the interface altogether.
- Compressor has way too much noise. It’s supposed to be modelled after and 1176, but is not within the range of signal to noise quality. This is fine with 1-2 instruments, but the noise stacks up quickly and becomes unbearable at higher levels. Nice to have analog hardware but usability isn’t really there for professional recordings.
- volume and preamp pots are already scratchy after a year
Overall seems great on paper but there are more reliable interfaces at a lower cost, or ones with much better feature sets just above
A. Malys
Excellent interface - Volt 476
Only had it a couple of weeks but I can say so far it is a rock solid interface. Built very well and easy on the eyes as well, it is compact but not too compact. The 76 compressors on board are quite nice as well. Also love that the interface is found by your computer in a hot second everytime which is not something I can say about alot of other interfaces. Would love to see a bit better curated software bundle included but that does not make or break this deal at this price. I would also point out that UA should put LUNA in the bundle for those customers that do not know about it. It is a rock solid professional DAW that will make analog console fans rejoice! All in all an exceptional little interface especially so at its price point!
PS - UA, please build an I/O expander companion box for this interface (say 8 IN and 8 OUT analog and a digital in and out)
J. Nash
Super useful but noisy monitor pot.
Great bit of kit, really handy for quick capture. The 76 circuitry sounds pretty good, too. My only gripe is that the monitor pot (the big knob) is noise, i.e., you can hear crackling through the monitors when you turn it up and down.
J. Douglass
Excellent travel/portable interface
Really fantastic, I've used tons of USB interfaces over the years and this is easily the best travel/portable interface I've used.
B. Abel
Good price & quality
Good price & quality
O. AHmed
Game changing Interface, Volt 476
An interface that provides max volume for studio reference headphones like DT 770 is amazing, the whole thing in general is epic.. Coming from a 100$ interface, Volt 476 has affected my mix in a really good way, I hear things way better than ever.. An overall epic interface!
m. van der zwan
Nice hardware but at 2nd hand no plugins provided.
Nice hardware. Low latency. No complaints there. Bought 2nd hand. Unfortunately no free plugins provided when i regitered this device. Buy more hardware on the 2nd hand market and this is the first time i get no software that is normally included in the package.
A. Pugh II
Awesome Interface
After setting Up My New Volt 476, I had a Stronger signal and a better Mic response. Awesome Sound !!!!
W. Barker
Super frustrated
I’m a huge UA fan but the last few weeks I’ve had multiple issues with my plug in’s via the spark bundle I pay monthly for. I have sent multiple help requests to no avail and therefore had at Kraft 3 weeks wasted where I haven’t been able to use my stuff . Y’all need to hit me up and get it together forest dawg
c. villarraga
Calienta mucho
tengo dos meses con una 476P y tengo algunas inconformidades. se calienta mucho la interface al paso de media hora de solo estar prendida, el driver controlador es un asco, parece de una interface behringer de 40 dolares y el transformador de alimentación de 5v se daño... por todo lo demas me parece (Hasta el momento) que es un buen producto, (ojala no diga lo contrario) su contruccion y estetica es de primera, los preamplificadores suenan muy bien y la emulacion del 1176 esta brutal. me gustaria que algun personal de la compañia UA me explicara lo del tema del calentamiento del equipo, eso me inquieta mucho
M. Palacios T.
Awesome
La tengo desde marzo y he probado todo, en conclusión una excelente interfaz de calidad profesional a un precio accesible, me encantan los pre amplificadores y el compresor que viene integrado, es un poco agresivo pero hay que acostumbrarse.
Lo que me complica es al querer monitorear desde el DAW dos salidas independientes de audífonos, el conector de audífono es muy débil (con dos meses de uso ya genera ruido y tiene holgura al conectar o desconectar el trs del audífono), si quiero tener a una persona grabando con audífonos mientras yo estoy monitoreando la grabación con audífonos NECESITO necesariamente otro dispositivo para conectar la otra salida, en mi caso uso la salida 3 y 4 para entrar a una consola soundcraft y salir con mi segunda señal de audífonos... un garrón.
Pero trabajando solo niun drama funciona de pana. Salu2 de chile.
I have it from march and i love it, the compressor is a little hard and smooth and preamps are smooth too and very clean.
The trouble it comes when i have to recording and i need another pair of phones.
The Jack it's too delicate, too thin, you might thing it will break soon, sometimes it sound like sand (with 2 month of use with delicate management) so it wont be able the double connector adapter, you need to connect the 3 and 4 outs to ANOTHER device so it's a kind of setback (it seems to be space from another phone jack but UA leave to last version of volt) , but it works very well !, nonetheless it has the possibility of doin it, thats why 4 stars, but i love it.
T. Owens
Volt 476p
I have had no problems. It does what it was made to do.
E. Yeung
Great interface for the price-point
I like this interface. I'm happy with it being the centerpiece to my humble budget home studio. I love the way it looks with the multi-coloured LEDs (it's really pretty), but most of all, the way it works. I do have a couple of gripes about it though, and that is, occasionally, my DAW playback will play heavily distorted and garbled, and I'll have to restart my DAW to fix it. Secondly, I was really impressed by the sound of the Vintage setting combined with the built-in compressor when I heard it for the very first time, but on subsequent trials, I think the distortion/saturation of the Vintage mode is just way too harsh, maybe they used odd harmonics rather than even harmonics, but it doesn't sound nice or pleasing, it just sounds harsh and angry. Anyway, I don't use that anymore, and I'm overall quite pleased with the unit. I'd recommend, but probably not as a go-to versatile interface, if only to open the door to UA's awesome plugins.
S. Musik
Loved the product
I am in love with this peice of gear the only thing i miss is to use Uad 2 plugins on this , it would be really good if Only a manley plugins can be obtained on this either for subscription or paid , rest is amazing