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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 8.0 inches | | Product Width: | 7.0 inches | | Product Height: | 3.5 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.55 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.8 inches | | Package Width: | 6.9 inches | | Package Height: | 3.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 29 reviews |
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17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent piece of gear May 20, 2010
By Neal A. Thompson
Tascam advertises this as "class compliant" USB 2.0, and it is. I plugged it into my Ubuntu Linux machine and was ready to go. No messing with drivers, no clunky setup. The US-100 works and works well. The case is nice and sturdy, making it idea for mobile use. And it sounds good too. If you want to just plug and play, this is a great buy.
27 of 30 found the following review helpful:
Powerlab USB 2.0 audio interface great for record conversion+ Jan 04, 2010
By J. Patrick
I bought this primarily to transfer 60+ vinyl records to MP3 files for use with iTunes and Ipods. The record player plugged in easily to the dedicated port, and no issues then getting the input signal into my computer via the USB interface provided (I used a USB 2.0 input in my 5+ year old PC). I did need to turn the gain all the way down in order to prevent buzzing (no big deal at all, just need to know to do that). I also tried to plug in a powered speaker at the same time to monitor the record player, and for whatever reason that resulted in a bad amount of hum, but unplugging the speaker removed the hum. Otherwise, this worked great, and allowed me to use my old expensive turntable and needle, rather than buying one of the new USB record players (to buy an equivalent USB record player would have set me back a couple of hundred dollars). I used the Audacity software (included in the package, but also available as a free download), and after getting past the initial user learning curve, it worked very well. So for record transfers, this does the job very well. The other reason I bought this particular audio interface was for the guitar and microphone input.... to allow for my dabbling to record on the computer. As with the record player experience, if I had an external monitor plugged in at the same time as the guitar or microphone, I did get quite a bit of humming (it may just be something I'm doing wrong). This other use of the Powerlab hardware also worked quite well, and allowed me to bring guitar and vocals into my computer (used free Sonoma Riffworks download software for recording). I didn't do anything too complicated here for recording, just some very basic introductory stuff for me, and this worked just fine for that (I didn't notice any "latency" issues for what I was doing). All in all, this little box performed very well for my level of need.
43 of 50 found the following review helpful:
 Good item for guitar recording Nov 13, 2009
By Blooper
For those that want to record(I use Adobe Audition) this item is good for recording.
I use to use my sound card. This provides a smoother sound and I don't have to worry about hissing when I record.
You can just plug in your guitar or bass.
Here is a letter I wrote to Tascam:
On humble advice I would forward this email to all of your subsidiaries any retail store that sells Tascam USB audio devices! Anywhere in the world.
Just today I got the new Tascam US-100 USB audio interface. It of course uses the Windows audio drivers. A nightmare occured. When I plugged in the device Windows XP had the usual "detect USB device" come up. But to my horror it wound up saying "A hardware problem occured your hardware may not operate properly" something of that sort.
I spent over 4 hours trying to figure this whole thing out and I read the manual it came with. Tried all sorts of things oh brother! It still would not install. By the way this happened with a previous USB audio device, not made by Tascam, that did the excact same thing on my computer.
But to my luck I found out what the problem was! Thank God for the website that had this on a blog!:
In the c:\windows\inf folder there must exist two files:
wdma_usb.inf
wdma_usb.PNF
It is really the .inf file that is important. Some software seems to knock these out by renaming them to:
wdma_usbinf.bak
wdma_usbpnf.bak
I simply found the files, opened them and renamed them to the proper names. And lo and behold when I restarted my computer the Tascan US 100 worked!
Its easy to rename the files you just open wdma_usbinf.bak
wdma_usbpnf.bak and then save them as wdma_usb.inf
wdma_usb.PNF.
Its that simple!!
Anyone who works customer service for Tascam should know this. Like I said it happend with a previous USB audio device that I had and I woulnd up selling it at eBay cause I was so frustrated.
I'm happy with the Tascam US 100.
I hope this helps if your audio does not work on your computer. And it did the same with a USB phone.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Good as a beginning option Jan 22, 2011
By S. Haney
I'm sick of protools and I wanted to find something cheap and easy until I could afford to upgrade to some real equipment to use with cubase. This unit fit the bill and has decent reviews so I went for it.
I'm using it to record guitar and vocals and it does the trick. The problem is that it records a lot of hum and white noise when using the xlr input. I've tried every variation possible to make sure the problem isn't external to the unit. I even tested the exact same mic + cable input into my MBox with protools and got a clean recording. I actually like this unit's "tone" better than the mbox - it seems more transparent. If not for the hum, it would get 5 stars.
Unfortunately, hum is a pretty big problem. The hum isn't loud enough to ruin your recording of only one or two tracks. If you start layering, though, you can quickly be overtaken by white noise. I even tried moving the unit onto a different electrical circuit and still had the same problem.
So, it works for rough stuff for your own use but I wouldn't use it for anything you plan on passing around much.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Works perfectly May 17, 2010
By Sunny
Very easy to use, also lets you do cool stuff like hear the guitar and computer sound at the same time.
No latency, no complications, just plug it in and you're ready to play.
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