EVO 16-24 in/24 out USB audio interface with Smartgain

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Although an awareness of why this might be was not essential on the user’s part, knowing what a good level looked like certainly was.

Headphone Outputs: Drive even the most demanding headphones with EVO 16’s two dedicated headphone amps.Featuring a crisp, high-resolution display, the Motion UI provides real-time feedback on your settings and I/O connectivity.

x EVO Mic Preamps, 2 x JFET Instrument Inputs, 2 x Independent Headphone Outputs, 8 x Line Outputs, 2 x Optical Inputs, 2 x Optical Outputs. Make studio-quality recordings with next-level audio performance with the Audient EVO 16 USB, their most powerful interface yet. Metering is the only context in which the display’s relatively small size could become an issue, though it’s not a problem when the EVO is close at hand. And if you’re looking for a more affordable alternative from the EVO range, take a look at the EVO 8 (available at Thomann*). In every Expert review we ask three of our team of contributors to give their first impressions of the product.Those who use interfaces’ bundled DSP mixers will always come back with wildly varying experiences, ranging from OK, to complicated, or even just plain bad. The sweet icing on this particular cake is Smartgain, which is a means of effortlessly optimising the gain for all the channels you’re using, in one go. Pressing an input or output button momentarily displays the channel name, the levels and the functions activated for that specific channel. Engineered to simplify your workflow, the EVO Mixer enables you to set up and route your inputs + outputs effortlessly, provide ultra-low latency monitoring, set up dedicated artist headphone mixes and so much more. That and all the other possible function button settings are all available simultaneously from the right‑hand side of the EVO panel, and many are further configurable from the Settings window.