Its mad to think that a bunch of school kids in a garage could pick up one of these, four bm800s, stick Audacity on Dads old laptop and produce something that sounds acceptable for less than $100 US. Morality of the vendor aside, I love how access to audio equipment for everyone continues to improve.
Always like seeing reviews of weird off brand gear like these. The 7b didnt sound bad at all. Cool that it has 4 inputs (though doesnt sound like thats a usable function if i interpretted your review right) Though in my budget experience id probably still look at the behringer uphoria, or maybe even the Cad interfaces. Ive used both and were surprisingly solid
So glad you reviewed a product from this brand! I came across Depusheng (and their DE8) when working in Southeast Asia. It's one of the brands that beat out "western" brands quite easily in the beginner, prosumer and corporate audio sector as far as I could tell. I like exploring "unknown" Chinese and Japanese brands and many win out over Røde/Focusrite/Shure/etc because they are either objectively better, or cheaper, or with better customer service (when in for example Singapore) or a combo of all three. I have an Teyun audio interface on the way for a travel kit because of recommendations from SEA-based collaborators (they got me hooked on Tascam). I'll let you know my thoughts on the Teyun once it's arrived. My biggest concern with some of these brands is that much of the gear has not, and would not, be approved according to (in my case) EU electrical safety standards. Burning Down The House is better as a song title than the result of dodgy wiring 🤓
Good to know budget low noise is available. I have avoided all Temu audio so far, except for the electronic power amp modules, which I build into robots. Even there, the quality control is about 90/10 (order 10, 9 work). They don't even sell that one in europe. Thanks.
this video has just confirmed exactly what i've been suspecting for the last few years looking around for interfaces and all alternative ways to get many inputs into a pc
I took a chance on this unit. I have it hooked up to a Minis Forum mini PC with Linux installed. Primarily because the audio output on this PC wouldn't work with Linux. This interface does work with it. Kinda wild. My line outs do work.
It isn't USB class compliant. Macs will not let you use devices requiring additional drivers that are not part of the kernel (probably to thwart Nvidia). That means Android and Linux may require additional drivers that may or may not be available. They might be, however for Android or Linux based operating systems, as China has really invested in it.
"Macs don't even recognize this thing even being plugged in". Never have I been happier to be a Mac user. A USB-B 4-input XLR audio device that falsely claims to be at 192khs and that only will do a stereo output? Think I'll do a hard pass.
I bought a cheap chinese interface almost a year ago that boasted 32 bit (not float) 384 khz!!!!! Which recorded a garbled mess... I COULD record in 24 bit 192khz, though I suspect it's the same case of 96 khz being upsampled. Other than this however, the interface is great
Its mad to think that a bunch of school kids in a garage could pick up one of these, four bm800s, stick Audacity on Dads old laptop and produce something that sounds acceptable for less than $100 US.
Morality of the vendor aside, I love how access to audio equipment for everyone continues to improve.
me in 2000 would have drooled at the chance to do that
Always like seeing reviews of weird off brand gear like these. The 7b didnt sound bad at all. Cool that it has 4 inputs (though doesnt sound like thats a usable function if i interpretted your review right)
Though in my budget experience id probably still look at the behringer uphoria, or maybe even the Cad interfaces. Ive used both and were surprisingly solid
So glad you reviewed a product from this brand! I came across Depusheng (and their DE8) when working in Southeast Asia. It's one of the brands that beat out "western" brands quite easily in the beginner, prosumer and corporate audio sector as far as I could tell. I like exploring "unknown" Chinese and Japanese brands and many win out over Røde/Focusrite/Shure/etc because they are either objectively better, or cheaper, or with better customer service (when in for example Singapore) or a combo of all three. I have an Teyun audio interface on the way for a travel kit because of recommendations from SEA-based collaborators (they got me hooked on Tascam). I'll let you know my thoughts on the Teyun once it's arrived. My biggest concern with some of these brands is that much of the gear has not, and would not, be approved according to (in my case) EU electrical safety standards. Burning Down The House is better as a song title than the result of dodgy wiring 🤓
I like the fact that the outcome here is that the big guys need to step up. Good work and, as usual, a nice presentation. Thanks.
Good to know budget low noise is available. I have avoided all Temu audio so far, except for the electronic power amp modules, which I build into robots. Even there, the quality control is about 90/10 (order 10, 9 work). They don't even sell that one in europe. Thanks.
Probably best to continue to avoid...
The spam they send after isnt worth it...lol
this video has just confirmed exactly what i've been suspecting for the last few years looking around for interfaces and all alternative ways to get many inputs into a pc
I took a chance on this unit. I have it hooked up to a Minis Forum mini PC with Linux installed. Primarily because the audio output on this PC wouldn't work with Linux. This interface does work with it. Kinda wild. My line outs do work.
It isn't USB class compliant. Macs will not let you use devices requiring additional drivers that are not part of the kernel (probably to thwart Nvidia). That means Android and Linux may require additional drivers that may or may not be available. They might be, however for Android or Linux based operating systems, as China has really invested in it.
No monitor routing even with Asio4All ?
"Macs don't even recognize this thing even being plugged in". Never have I been happier to be a Mac user. A USB-B 4-input XLR audio device that falsely claims to be at 192khs and that only will do a stereo output? Think I'll do a hard pass.
Big K, big H for the proper name, and a little z.
I bought a cheap chinese interface almost a year ago that boasted 32 bit (not float) 384 khz!!!!! Which recorded a garbled mess... I COULD record in 24 bit 192khz, though I suspect it's the same case of 96 khz being upsampled. Other than this however, the interface is great
I wonder if you're using a USB C to C cable for Mac? these cheap devices have a quirk that they only work with USB A to C
I miss the music and outro “thud.” Can you please bring them back? Thank you.
awwww...sure!
Didnt know if anyone made it that far
$50 is a winner!
Don't buy it. Case closed.