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Customer Reviews

Volt 4

Overall Rating

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M. Kuiper

January 24, 2025

it's only nice, not best

The Volt4 its okay, but there is a big issue; if you trade up from a cheaper interface the sound its okay. But if you use Lynx, Apogee or RMA interfaces it's a terrible sound. Very noise outputs, U Audio try to hide the noise with a noise gate , if you use the compressor there is more noise, if you use TRS connectors there is also more noise. The dynamic (with the compressor off) is low, if you use dynamic synthesizers like a Oberheim, Prophet or a Nord Stage, the Volt wil distort on the dynamics. The high notes sound a bit muddy and compressed. Latency (48khz 24bit) is 13.9ms (Macbook M3, USB-C)I can't use it as a mobile solution because of the poor design, my daughter use it now for Youtube. I tried to reach Uaudio since 2023, but nobody responds.

S. Onisor

January 10, 2025

Its great, but there is one big issue

The sound of the interface is excellent. But that is all. Unfortunately there is a big issue that multiple people have including me. This interface has some serious issues when used with ableton live. More specifically when you start setting the buffer size over 512 samples. It's starts cracking and lagging really bad. Unfortunately I need the higher buffer size to save some resources. The interface for sure works with UADs own Luna DAW. I tried to like it but there I ended up having other problems with 3rd party plugins.
It should be addressed at some point since I am not the only one with the issue. Unfortunately for me I can't wait for a fix so I will have to return it.

E. Bower

December 26, 2024

So clean...

Sound quality!! Simple controls and sounds amazing!!! Awesome price for the quality build and clarity you get out of these.

R. Johnson

November 9, 2024

Love it

This is the best sounding interface I've ever used. The preamps make my u87 shine.

c. letendre

August 22, 2024

plugins are blirry

i love the sound and all but the plugins are not tweables they are blurry

S. Duvernois

July 16, 2024

awesome for home studio

the interface is awesome and everything I have used it for has turned out sounding great!

P. Bohak

July 10, 2024

Love this interface

Besides looking cool, it can handle up to 6 outputs. If you're needing 5.1 surround sound capability this will provide. I also dig the vintage preamp options for recording.

A. Cox

June 27, 2024

Great for recording or live via DI

The interface pairs well with the UA-4-710d for recording drums or a range of studio instruments. I also use the Volt-4 to connect my laptop to a DI for live performances. Overall, very versatile high quality piece of audio equipment. No issues w/ drivers on Mac and the free UA Connect plugins added value to my daw library.

Note: I did change the cable out that came w/ it so I have a usb-c to usb-c setup for my mac, as the unit came w/ a usb-c to usb-a (og-usb) one. It was like $10 to get a more modern cable so nbd!

M. Cristea

May 10, 2024

5 Stars

The best Audio Interface that I used. Great sound, easy to use, a lot of mixing possibilities.
Congratulation UA!

T. Avander

January 27, 2024

Outstanding product and company

Just getting started with this journey and so far I’m just so excited and amazed with UA and this sound card. It has so good sound, the value with the plugins campaign is too good. There are such growth capacity and I have a feeling I will stay with universal audio for a long time ahead in my recording journey. Excited and very happy with this product.

N. Thornton

January 20, 2024

Volt 4

Thanks to Kyle B. in Customer service I was able to redeem my included software which I am ecstatic about…
Great work!

慶. 玄巣

November 15, 2023

good sound!

いい音出ます!
ただ、説明書がわかりずらかった・・・

A. Whalan

November 10, 2023

Solid product with a few misteps that let it down

The device is built very sturdy and looks amazing! Audio quality seems great without random pops/ hisses on reboots.

The supplied USB is only 1m making it a bit short for my setup where my interface is a bit away from my desktop computer. It also seems very basic/ cheap quality when contrasted with such a tidy interface.

The biggest frustration I had is that you MUST register for an account, then install UA Connect which installs some DRM crap, and THEN you can install the drivers. If you want the "free" plugins, you've got to install even more DRM junk to get them.

The driver does not let you split your inputs into 4 separate mono devices. It'll only treat them as 2x stereo inputs which makes it annoying if you want to use a mic for meetings and the software treats it as a stereo input causing other people to only hear your voice out of one channel. This won't be a drama in a DAW obviously, but just in general day to day usage which shows a disappointing lack of attention to detail.

The device works perfectly on Linux with a few tweaks to PulseAudio config to split up the inputs into 4 devices with the "module-remap-source" module.

If they included a longer, better quality cable and just allowed you to download drivers directly it'd be a 5/5 but forcing me to register an account just to get drivers is uncool. Overall a great product let down by poor execution.

C. Jones

September 4, 2023

Sound Upgrade

Great upgrade for my home studio.
Instrument input makes a huge difference when recording guitar.

U. Sabiniewicz

August 16, 2023

Excellent

Had nearly every brand past 20 years in this price range.
Coming from an SSL2, now my headphone (AKG 701) sounds like one class higher.
Channel 3+4 could have a bit more input gain. My Minilogue in unisono just makes it to -10db.
Soundwise 3x better than a focusrite 4i4.

B. Mosteanu

July 25, 2023

Solid product

Up until now I was using a focusrite solo, but I needed more inputs for hardware synths.
Decided to switch to the Volt 4 and it works really well.

Overall I'm pretty happy with it, the only weird issue is that sometimes (rarely) the audio will skip a bit, but it does that only on mac os (m1) so I guess there's something that needs fixing.

I'm only rating this 4 stars because the process of setting the software up and getting the free bundled stuff is really clunky on mac, otherwise great product.

S. Girola

July 25, 2023

Perfect

Great build quality, works perfectly with my Mac M1 and Bitwig, great software bundle, great preamps.

M. Georgiades

May 26, 2023

UA Connect won't load...can't download the driver

The hardware is great. Sounds good, I like the monitor is separate from inputs 1 and 2. However UA Connect won't load past login preventing me from installing the driver. Without the driver it only works as a generic USB audio device turning inputs 1 and 2 into a stereo mic and preventing it from working with DAWS. If I wanted a fancy headphone amp, I'd have bought a headphone amplifier.
Please the make the Volt drivers and control software directly available until you fix UA Connenct.

R. Abercrombie

May 25, 2023

Good build quality best budget interface

This unit is built like a tank. I bought it for the price, brand name, design and multiple I/O options. It is precisely the same size as a scarlet give or take. BUT SERIOUSLY: the pre amps & output are pretty quiet, perfect for dynamic mics setups. Condenser mics are noisier but we have plugins for that. I LOVE THAT I can hook it up to my iPad or iPhone. It registers as volt 4. That’s pretty fly. HOWEVER, since this unit is geared towards creators, please give us a mobile app. Something that we can use to work on projects while on the go.

D. Colo'

March 16, 2023

Great preamps quality, great build quality, great software bundle


I chose this interface for the quality of its preamps (with and without vintage mode), for the monitoring capability using four physical buttons and for the software bundle. At this price it is impossible to have more.

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