Zoom UAC-2 Reviews
Works Good
By Thomas
Rated 4 out of 5
Date: 2018-12-18
I used this interface for awhile. It never gave me any issues. I achieved good latency at about 3ms at 96k and 64 sample buffer. I have no complaints. I got a Thunderbolt 3 interface for my Macbook Pro. For some reason the Macbook didnt work well with it. I think its an Apple thing. Not all things that Apple does is great.
Works great!
By Colin
Rated 4 out of 5
Date: 2017-01-16
There seems to be a low whine in my recordings, but it's not the Zoom UAC-2, it's a general problem with USB Audio Interfaces like this. Try turning off all of your lights, or check everything in your house for weird ground issues. It's not the hardware, it's your power. When the whine isn't there this thing works great, no driver issues with macOS or Windows 10 (Bootcamp). This device might be a little too much for what I need it for though, unsure if I'm going to return it.
Did not work
By Br. Lawrence
Rated 1 out of 5
Date: 2016-06-20
On paper, this looks like a great choice - the other USB 3 interfaces are double the price or more. I have had some good experience with Zoom products - I use the H6 as my default sound recorder for everything. However, this unit had one glaring flaw - the drivers would not work! For some inconceivable reason, the supplied drivers for Windows are unsigned. I installed and re-installed many times. Online, someone gave the location for an old set of drivers, and I downloaded and installed these, and they worked for a day, but then Windows refused to recognize them anymore. I contacted Zoom support and they said that there were some workaround solutions floating around the net, which had to do with turning off Window's authorization process. I even tried some of these, to no avail. Then I thought, hey, what am I doing? The product obviously does not work, and even Zoom acknowledges this. So I returned it and went with a Focusrite. Sure, it is USB 2.0 and there is some latency, but it WORKS, flawlessly. Thanks to B&H for a painless return process. I do most of my technical shopping here and they have never failed to be courteous and knowledgeable.
Best entry-mid range USB audio interface I've owned so far
By Grayhouse
Rated 5 out of 5
Date: 2016-06-07
I felt like I needed to write about this interface to update the 1 year old reviews that it has on the web. I've owned the UAC-2 for about one month now and I'm very satisfied. Before I bought it, I read many reviews complaining about terrible drivers on Windows 10, and headphone level being too low. Let's get to these points. About the drivers thing, it's unfair to say Windows 10 didn't cause issues to developers by upgrading itself from Windows 7 and 8, so apparently it took some time for Zoom to address this change. But they finally did it on April's 1.2.0 driver update. And I found zero driver issues on Windows 10 by the time I bought it. I reach driver latency as low as 1ms (3ms output using plugins) and no clicks or pops on audio. Of course that's using lowest buffer size (24 samples) so I wouldn't take it seriously, but the most important thing is that using a standard 256 samples, 48 KHz, I get 6ms on input, outperforming POD HD as an audio interface, M-Audio's FastTrack MKii and M-Audio Venom, and it's way more stable than any of these. BTW, I'm using a i7 4770, 12 GB RAM, running Windows 10. About the headphones output level, comments were partially right. It actually has lower output level compared to my other audio interfaces, and there's no way it can be usable using high impedance headphones (about this part I'm not entirely sure...) but using a 32 ohms pair it should be fine. And that's exactly what I have and I'm happy with it (Samson's SR850). The other good/bad thing is that you depend on a software included called MixEfx, where you can tweak the audio interface entirely from your PC. It's bad because I don't like to have more apps running while I work on my DAW, but it's good b/c you can control input gain numerically to even up the signals (for example to record an stereo source) and it has some other features, like Low Pass Filter and Phase reverse, which the unit has no physical buttons for. I'm very happy with it.
Good performance, but driver not configurable.
By tk1138
Rated 4 out of 5
Date: 2016-05-22
Running this on a Windows 7 64bit laptop with USB2, mostly using Room E.Q. Wizard (aka REW for RTA tuning audio systems). The driver doesn't allow configuring the sample rate, but REW does allow configuring up to 192ksps and that setting sticks after REW is closed. I've been using this with EMC8000 mics, and direct lines and it works well for both uses. I did contact their support about not being able to configure the driver sample rate, and they were responsive, though that didn't lead to a technical resolution (application setting discovered independently, still no driver configuration capability). For the price it's very good, but be willing to spend some time in the configuration phase.
waiting for 64 bit
By El Vasso
Rated 2 out of 5
Date: 2016-02-08
Accordimg to ZOOM, UAC-2 works under all systems. But this is not true. I am very disappointed because I spent 2 days to make instalations and then realized that it cannot be installed on 64 bit windows I tried in 2 PC and 2 laptops following all the instructions. Finally the installation worked without any problems in 32 bit Windows...nice! I think that if something is been sold for a year there should be working drivers for it. I don't know who is responsible for the support of this hardware but it is below any expectations. At the end of the day what happened- I wanted to have something to rely on and to do my job with, but I just lost my time.
terrible
By Astrit
Rated 1 out of 5
Date: 2018-12-17
I bought it and just one day worked
did not make good contact on board
is it just a day of work to do that
for a serious company like zoom
Monitor in or out not useful
By Don
Rated 1 out of 5
Date: 2017-02-08
It's imperative to be able to monitor what's already been recorded on other tracks ? Otherwise how could one sing over previously recorded tracks or for voice over on a jingle or music track? It makes no sense to listen to just the microphone or just the music track? There has to be the ability to hear both and monitor the mix in your headphones. This oversight needs to come up to competitive standard like the other units have, in order to be seriously considered for even basic home studio use. What were they thinking!
