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| | Features | 2 XLR mic inputs with phantom power2 analog line inputs (1 switchable to high impedance for use with guitars, basses, etc.)1 MIDI input, 1 MIDI outputUp to 96kHz/24-bit for high quality recordingsBus powered for use with any PC or Mac, including laptops
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| | Description | Record two tracks at a time with zero latency; whether you have a PC or a Mac, your song ideas go down in real time, real easy. Its size means you can take it anywhere you take your laptop, yet it's packed with features that make buying it an audio no-brainer. MIDI input and output, high quality mic inputs, 96kHz/24-bit recording (better than CD quality)-all the stuff you'd want without the fluff you wouldn't. The US-122L: the answer to your recording needs. The US-122L is also part of TASCAM's exciting new Track Pack T1. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 9.69 inches | | Product Width: | 7.95 inches | | Product Height: | 4.17 inches | | Product Weight: | 3.15 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.61 inches | | Package Width: | 7.95 inches | | Package Height: | 4.17 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.31 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 7 customer reviews )
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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Brilliant for beginners Jan 13, 2008
By Maria Böttcher
I bought this Tascam about a year ago and I am very happy with so far. I am using a laptop running Windows XP and haven't had any problems with the device. I find the handling with the Tascam rather easy and think that for this price it is a perfect audio interface for beginners. (And even though it's a little embarrassing to me to mention how "badly" I treat my equipment sometimes, I have to say that I dropped the interface several times and it's still working fine! ;-)). I have connected my electric guitar with it, my keyboard (via both, 1/8 and midi) and I tried different microphones with the Tascam and each of them were picked up just fine.
I really didn't have problems with it and would recommend it as a "beginner's device".
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Tascam 122L vs Presonus Firebox Jun 13, 2009
By Rick Zanotti
I just got the 122L and was surprised it had no power supply. OK, no problem, it seems to get enough juice out of the o
Initially, drivers didn't load with a message saying the operating system wasn't supported. Went to Tascam site and downloaded a new driver - it now worked.
I already have a Presonus Firebox, a Presonus TubePre pre-amp, a Presonus Comp16 compressor (junk) and an EQ3B from Presonus. ALL the Presonus gear just seems to add more noise and no gain to the recordings. I have to amplify between 10-13db to get a good wave. The Presonus by the way, is peged.
I am using Adobe Audition 3, Sony Sound Forge 9 and Adobe Soundbooth CS4 as my recording tools.
Now on to the 122L. I set a couple of switches, played with gain and did my first recording aith Audition 3. It clipped and pegged everything. Hmmm? This had way more gain than the Presonbus gear which barely gives sound when pegged...
So I lowered by about 20% and was surprised at the clarity of the sound and a near perfect wave file. I only had to add a compander and it sounded great. I have to add about 3-4 effects with the Presonus.
Now, I'm irritated. All that Presonus gear and this little cheap Tascam sounds better...
By the way, the Presonus equipment uses power for every component. The 122L only USB2 power. Amazing! Irritating too when I think of the Presonus $700 I spent...
A great voice-over talent we workk with, Jason Bishop ([...]) recommended the Tascam and his stuff sounds good. We have the same mics (Rode NT1a) and his sounded way better than the Presonus so I purchased the Tascam. So far, looks like a good deal!
 Absolutely awesome! Aug 11, 2010
By Sergey Moraru
"SM"
The US-122L module is one of the best. If you have USB 2.0 in your laptop or computer - buy US-122L! Minimal latency, 96/24, all needed in/outs, everything for the price given - GREAT DEAL!
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Working well for me May 17, 2009
By C. Nielsen
I bought this product about 2 weeks ago and have been happy with it. I'm running Windows XP (SP3) and had no problems installing it on my computer. The bundled software (Cubase LE4) is complicated and not at all user friendly, but the tutorials on the help menu have let me make recordings. It's taken me quite a bit of time to figure out how to use the program, though. I'm impressed by the sound quality of this interface. I use a Shure SM57 microphone that I use with the XLR input, and the sound comes out very clean. When I plug my guitar straight into the interface, there's a slight ringing sound, but not too bad. One thing that didn't come with the Cubase software is a decent selection of software instruments. It comes with drums and bass , but there are hardly any instruments (trumpets, saxophones, etc.) that come with it. I think there's just a flute. I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out how to add instruments that I want (with freeware, etc). Again, I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what a "VST instrument" is, and where to get them. Overall, I'm happy with the purchase and would recommend it to others. This interface works much better than the M-Audio product I bought before (Fast Track). I couldn't use that interface anywhere near my CRT monitor, as it got really noisy. This interface doesn't have that problem at all. Also, the M-Audio Session software was a pain to install on my computer.
27 of 48 found the following review helpful:
 Read my review of the US-122 (not L) before you purchase Dec 28, 2006
By ChurchOfJesusChrist.Net
I own the US-122 (not L). The L model features 96Khz at 24-bit recording, instead of 48Khz 24-bit, and USB 2 instead of USB 1, to handle the extra data flow.
The main physical difference is that the potentiometers (knobs) are much closer to flush with box, and are way wider, because now you can't get your knuckles around them. Otherwise, aside from a cosmetic shift and the apparent loss of the blue rubber "bumper", it appears to be the same.
Before you buy this box, please read my US-122 review here at Amazon, especially if you plan to use it with Windows. The US-122 will reliably hang with almost any Windows computer when or if it goes into Standby or Hibernate mode.
Also, Tascam tech support is terrible to deal with when you get them, but in my case, they didn't even pick up the phone, return messages or reply to an email. Around the time they came out with the US-122, they took down their official forums which WERE helpful, even if just from other users. It was around that time that Tascam went from being a respected company with a good reputation, to something of a really surprisingly bad joke.
They claimed they took down the forums to save money, but with the timing matching the release of the US-122, I suspect it was to prevent bad word of this design flaw from being figured out, as Tascam was throwing a lot of its weight into the portable USB Audio Interface world, and abandoning its venerable but now-obsolete consumer analog recording products. Various unofficial Tascam and US-122 forums have come and gone, but I don't think it's ever been the same.
I also suspect that their tech support department is so nightmarish to deal with because they too are probably underfunded and have no real power to fix things, or else I have to imagine they would (they haven't).
If you do a search for US-122 and hibernate or standby, you will see numerous threads of various users struggling to understand why their PC keeps locking up, trying to reach Tascam with no success, and others chiming in reporting the same thing. All that time and energy wasted because Tascam didn't want to officially acknowledge the problem, probably because it feared a class-action lawsuit (which I think would be a good idea).
I discovered through first-hand experience that Tascam is very committed to NOT helping the customer after the sale, nor does it care to preserve its honor by fixing or even acknowledging defects in its products. No one at Tascam is taking responsibility. Their sole focus it to make money in the short term, which will bode ill for them long-term. Having been a happy Tascam customer with one (analog) recording product before the US-122 seachange, I will never buy another Tascam, and probably never a TEAC product (Tascam's parent company), again.
Because firewire boxes have come down to roughly matching prices of USB, the main reason a Windows user would go with USB over firewire is to have great portability with bus-powered device on a laptop. There are no Windows laptops I know of which provide a bus-powered interface like that found on Macs (Windows desktop machines do have bus-power firewire, but not laptops). So if you ever intent to use your interface with a laptop, and you don't want to bring some kind of creative power supply with you to power the interface, you're unfortunately stuck with USB for laptop PC's.
And if you're going to be on laptop battery power, Standby and Hibernate modes are extremely important. Laptops will automatically go into either standby or hibernate before having their batteries fail, plus they usually go into some kind of power-save mode after a certain number of idle minutes, or even closing the laptop lid. You can turn all this off, and you'll have to if it's a US-122 (and probably US-122L). Otherwise, you'll either blow through your battery quickly, or you'll lose all your work when you forget and put it on standby anyway, or the machine goes into emergency suspend mode on low battery. OR you'll have to keep unplugging and re-plugging the US-122 every time you go on suspend. And someday you WILL forget, and lose your work, and whatever else you were working on.
The Tascam US-122 series is the only audio interface I've ever even heard of which crashes virtually all Windows boxes on Hibernate or Standby. You may not use suspend much or at all now, but keep it in mind for that laptop you still plan to buy for on-location recording.
For what it's worth, Tascam's nearest competitor, Edirol, holds the reputation for making the most solid, broadly-compatible drivers. It built its audio inerface reputation in stark contrast to Tascam with the UA-5, which has been upgraded to the UA-25 in exactly the same manner as the US-122L, now featuring USB2 and 96Khz/24-bit recording. In retrospect, I wish I had gone with Edirol (Roland).
The Edirol UA-25 only allows half-duplex recording at 96/24, and I suspect that the US-122L is the same (at the time of this writing, I can't find a single reference as to whether the US-122L is full-duplex or half-duplex at 96/24 mode). Not surprisingly, it's a whole lot easier to get information on Edirol products than to get Tascam to be forthcoming. So buy carefully.
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