About this deal
These sorts of bundles are brilliant and get people started without having to think about what may or may not work with your interface. I just have to remember to bring up the heaphone level up from zero, every time when starting a new Teams meeting (with my other audio interfaces the level just stays where I left it last time). Starting to make music properly, i like everything from rock/indie/prog to house/tech/experimental ambient/hip hop whatever. Looking at the features of that bigger version, it looks like a better value in other ways too, at least if you have use for two input channels.
Designed to deliver ultralow noise and low distortion with a touch of classic analogue warmth, iD4’s Audient mic pre will give you the professional sound you deserve. Well, now the audio meters are going from white straight to red when you turn it up, so, it doesn't show the orange color as the first gen did before. PC, I got it to work only after going through all Windows trouble shooting menus a couple of times, and then after the next restart of the computer the Audient just stopped working entirely - would have required a new install, it seemed. One delightful Windows‑orientated bonus feature that you never see is that the system tray icon gives you quick access to the main settings, including ASIO Buffer Size — bravo! As the description says, you can record both inputs at the same time, like most interfaces, so you can easily record guitar and vocals simultaneously.
When using the Audient with my laptop, and 48v phantom power active, the battery of my Lenovo is being consumed about twice as fast compared to no Audient connected.
You can record vocals, spoken word, and acoustic instruments with no worries about the pre-amp quality.Plug the USB hub into the USB port on the Camera Adapter kit, and connect the kit to your iOS device (to charge the iOS device, you can plug a charging cable into a port on the SB hub and camera kit as well).
The DI sounds really clean and crisp, I ran my electro-acoustic and electric through it without any issues. The iD4 mk2 is exclusively USB bus powered, however unlike for its predecessor, connectivity is now via the latest USB-C style port. Audio Interface: Able to simply handle any task thrown its way, the Audient iD4 MKII provides a performance that's sure to impress with 24-bit/96kHz audio quality, allowing you to hear every finer nuance within your session with minimal hassle. On the top you have individual gain control over the inputs, some fleeting LED meters and that iD multi‑purpose encoder which handles volume and has a special power we’ll come on to in a minute. There’s no doubt that Audient have beefed up the quality of the internal converters in the MkII to climb back on to the top of the pile where the original models were five years ago.The iD14 MkII does have a separate hardware level control over the headphones, whereas the iD4 MkII shares its headphone level control with the main output.