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If you want to buy a great budget interface
for less than £200, you might be quite
surprised at the quality of the models you can
get. We’ve got the best audio interfaces under
£200 from big audio hitters including SSL,
Audient and Focusrite in this buyer’s guide. And
pretty much all the interfaces in our roundup
ofer exceptional sonic quality considering their
relatively low prices.
With a budget of £200 you can now also
expect to get decent additional features as well
as that great sound quality. Indeed most of the
interfaces in this buyer’s guide go well beyond
the very basic connectivity you get just by
spending double digits. Those cheaper
interfaces will ofer you one or two inputs and
outputs to allow you to record voice and
instrument into your DAW and play the results
out to some decent speakers. Up the budget to
£200 as we have here and you can expect extras
like decent software bundles, better input
quality (for better recordings), and extra inputs
to allow you to record more than one instrument
or voice simultaneously.
We’ve listed all of the main speciications, like
audio recording quality and the number of ins
and outs, but we’ve also detailed some of the
software bundle highlights as this could be an
equally important factor to consider in your
buying decision.
You can skip to the bottom if you want to
know more about interface options and how we
test audio interfaces, but before we get into the
detail of each interface individually, let’s break
down some of the things to look out for when
starting your search….
74 / COMPUTER MUSIC / November 2022
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Best audio interfaces
under £200
It’s our budget studio special so it’s time to round up the best audio
interfaces that won’t break the bank for recording into your Mac,
PC and even your phone…
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