For me, this unit is all about getting a great direct guitar tone into the DAW, and then choosing how you want to process it later. It's not the first unit to have a re-amp feature, but it's very useful for recording a performance, then later deciding which amp to use and move the microphone(s) around to get the best sound without having to concentrate on your playing.

It was great to hang out with you guys and have dinner with Marty Schwartz in CA! I hope you're well! This interface looks interesting!!

Yes ! I was hoping you guys would demo this!

Cabinet Sauvignon- ha ha. Pete you crack me up.

Are there any valve auxiliary pre amps out there that aren’t that new tube screamer or this?

Sounds fantastic!

For what it is it's impressive simple to the point .

Great idea for a video: best attenuated home use valve combo. This is different to previous Anderton’s vids in 2 ways: firstly, you could compare different brands and secondly you could compare the bedroom setting of larger amps. The conclusion usually drawn from reviewing a range of amps is that the higher wattage and larger speaker size amps are better. But which is better for home use, a Marshall Origin 50 on 3 watts or 0.5 watts, a HT-5 on 0.5 watts or a Vox AC4 (plus on Orange in bedroom mode etc). Would love to see this one, so please consider it!

Btw...this will require to change the tube sometimes, is that explained by Audient?!

Just went to your site to check out this product, And you dont have at the pictures clear foto of the back panel, Where i can clearly see I/0. i think you should fix that

Does a Mk2 is on the way ? if it's exactly the quality of the iD14 MKII for mic pre-amp and convertors plus the guitars function and tube, i'll buy !!!!

Had my eye on one of these since they came out..... not least because it matches my watkins dominator!.....now you are doing them at a very good price I'm gonna watch this and very likely pull the trigger tomorrow

Please tell me more about the guitar that Pete is playing; it is BEAUTIFUL! I was hardly able to focus on whatever the video was supposed to be about!

Does this use the KORG Nutube 6P1.

Can you review the Fractal Axe range please. compliments to Pete also for his playing - I am so envious

Looks fun. I'm assuming I can't afford it, but the more of these things appear the cheaper the average price, right?

This box is a very versatile and handy tool really, for studio guitarists who would quickly get a great sound & make sound engineers happy to even for the artists who DI their acoustic guitar for live sound! Very nice guys!

Guys, you stick that Dane pedal into virtually every single video you make. I already want to buy it BUT I CAN'T. Can you either use some more common pedal or make Dane into mass production thing?

I think it is very cool, I use a rack tube pre-amp (just the left and right returns) the output drives my ADA Microcab II and Stereo power amp simultaneously. I can play with or with out the amp. I get my pedal board signal fed through the tube pre-amp. It is actually neutral, since I am not running through the eq section. The tube signal is passing through to my ADA Microcab II. I have made many nice recordings quietly and with the tube signal going to the recorder. My latest video, happens to show what I am talking about. I do like the concept of an audio interface for guitar with tubes in it. ART has a small mixer with a tube in it that is similar. I like the digital in and output options on this product.

ok so my interface is always on because my monitors are my main speakers for my computer.so my question is that is there a way to turn off the valve for every day use? like watching youtube videos and playing games/ talking to my friends with a phantom powered mic. i really like this and i dont like the idea of having two interfaces

Will this work with iPad Pro?

I don’t see any reference to the speaker(s) being used to play this in the room - anyone?

Haha... Cabernet sauvignon - good one Pete. Class.

Lee is the youngest old man in the world.

'I don't like technology' Are valves grown on trees?

I use plugins live for ALL of my guitar and bass playing in concert. Its very simple and i control everything from a big midi foot controller. Some plugins just sound better than amps and helix type pedals especially with the flexibility and loopers built in.

Hmm, my Katana 100 Head already does all this for me. Allows me to record to laptop either DI or post effects, while still being able to hear what I'm playing through a cab like normal.

Excuse the ignorance but is this product doing the job of cabinet emulation and an audio interface?

Maybe Lee’s problem with the audio from digital stuff is the monitors. Set up a 4-12 on each side of him for payback from the computer. Okay, not to that extreme, but I was thinking that was the major issue with the audio out on the amp Lee and Rob demonstrated yesterday. You might need better monitors for the video room.

I think this is interesting but... I’d almost like to play thru one and see if it sounds much different than a regular inexpensive two or four channel interface and something like Guitar Rig Pro or Positive Grid. (I’m talking inexpensive alternatives) It kinda turned me off as soon I heard, “you can buy” more cabinets if you would like, “there are a few included”. I hate paying, what, $600-ish for something that then I need to keep feeding cash at to make it sound right. The graphics are pretty slick and the unit looks good, I do like that. There are lots of DI’s that also have built in preamp tubes also which can be used like this also, you can use them with pedals too. Thus the confusion... Pete, you are probably right, it’s a new way of doing an old thing. I think it would be cool to see this in a blind test versus some other ways to do this... Cap? Thanks for the very thought provoking review. Buddy

This is a really innovative approach to recording guitar: it mimics a cleanish pedal platform amp + cab + room + mic. The 12ax7 in the preamp is a great idea as many pedals rely on overloading the front end of the amp or some even need a slightly dirty preamp (fuzz) to really shine. These guys have really thought about all we need for recording silently without moving to full digital modelling. Cool. A bit pricey though but for what it does it makes sense.

The tones were massive. Wow, I need one.

I'm sorry guys but all throughout the video I just kept wondering what this thing actually is. Do you turn off the cab sim in your plug-ins when you're recording with this? It doesn't have amp simulation, so you gotta run this with vst? What?

Wish it had crunch to hi-gain built in.

Sounds quite nice. But it is sounding like you are having phase issues. Are the room sounds that bad, or are there different mics/lines feeding the recording? It kind of ruined the demo for me

Like all of Danish Pete's videos I get my guitar out and study licks. The one at 17:49 is NASTY.

Lee - You need someone like me, to be the "buffer" between you and the digital world! ;)

So can you record tracks with this? I’d love to start recording..

Wtf are you telling me?! Tubes into an interface ft.Two Notes?! People is weird now and I like it!

yeeeee!!!

Fantastic category; hope it grows and gives UA a run for its money; they couldn't be worse for guitar players. UAD amp sims are the worst.

I love being able to plug my guitar into my laptop when travelling, in hotel room etc. It's no more complicated than posting on FB. I use a basic Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, but would love to have something a bit flasher with no latency. You don't need pedals in front of the interface, you use a decent plug-in in your DAW, of which there are many many many.

I bought this audio card 4-5 months ago. I am extremely disappointed from the unit and audient support. I bought this audio card in order to replace my Scarlett 2i2 1rst gen. After I bought it I re-recorded all the rhythmic guitars for 6 metal songs. After that I was trying to figure out the tone of the guitars using vst plugins. I struggled a lot because I noticed that the signal was getting dirty easily with crackles etc. I did an experiment to see if the valve preamp is noisy and the problem comes from there. Well, increasing the gain of the signal at parts where I was recording but I was not playing the guitar I expected to hear noise floor but I found sth else. Just by recording from the valve circuit and even having the output volume of the unit at 0db, I found out that in the track there was recorded whatever was playing in the background e.g. the metronome. I did the same experiment with a backing track. E.g. I have the rhythmic guitars playing and I play the solo and recording in in another track. A part of the rhythmic guitars was recorded in the solo track. It doesn’t matter if I had the volume of the backing track at 0db. This means that all my new recorded rhythmic guitars have had extra noise from the recorded metronome. Loading vst overdrives, distortion and digital amps the noise was exaggerated and I got more noise. I did the same experiment with the Line in inputs and there was not the same problem. This means that recording from the Valve input, which is why I bought the audio card, is not an option for those who want an as silent as possible DI signal. From the audient support through the email they told me that the unit must be defective and that I had to send it to my seller. My seller told me that the unit was ok and refused to do the above experiment even after I asked audient support to tell him about my problem. Audient support told the seller that everything is ok and that probably I am the one who doesn’t know how to optimize my DAW. After that I found the audient community on facebook I made a video of the experiment and asked a question there. Daniel Mills (technical support manager of Audient) answered this: “A very small amount of cross talk is expected in the valve gain due to the gain staging that is used and the fact it is an unbalanced circuit, however, this will typically be buried well in the noise floor of the input and practically inaudible under normal usage. However, if you are normalising this signal so the loudest peak is a 0dBFS then you will of cause hear this alongside the massively amplified noise floor because of the normalision.” What I did in the video was that: I recorded from the valve input to one track with the guitar plugged in but its volume at 0, while having another track and the metronome playing at the backround. I recorded silence. Then I normalized the signal and apart from noise floor you could hear the metronome and the backing track playing. This is for audient normal. But for me and my needs isn’t. This just makes my DI dirtier when I use different vst amps and overdrives. Another problem unrelated to the previous one is that when I plug an instrument to Line In 2 the leveling meters of the audio unit doesn’t respond. To this question Daniel Mills didn’t even bother to respond. Overall this audio unit sucks big time. I have the chance I would replace it with something else. Don’t buy this unit if you really need clean silent DI tracks.

pete reaction at 1:10 : priceless

Damn Matty Matheson looking svelt. And he's got chops too.

How were you hearing the guitar in the room?

"I would loft live there" Pete

Love the fact you hate computers etc. Been there and lost days...weeks...months trying to figure our how it works, which settings to use and got seriously good at it when I realised it was not making me play better but simply robbing me of practice time. Long live the guitar, pedal and amp....and perhaps a few more pedals and another guitar or two :-)

22:50 A little bit of Tom Misch ok I see you Pete ;)

Funny how Pete is cracking up one joke after another while Lee is always going "yeah, yeah, yeah" grumpy grandpa style.

Thanks for making me laugh guys!!!

Features-wise, the one big thing this unit is missing is reverb for monitoring inside the box. Like many guitar players, I don't like listening to a dry signal and I wouldn't dream of using reverb in front of the amp. I currently use Two Notes IR's, and for me, they are incredible, so this would work well from that standpoint. But I'm very skeptical of one 12AX7 adding anything more than a minimal dash of "tubeness", especially if you're going to model important components like the power amp and OT. All that said, there is definitely a market for something like this - just not this version.

wtf do I do if I'm a stereo guitarist?? There's only one amp output

I’m guessing no stereo? But it has stereo out? It’s pretty much regular two notes with regular interface just killing two birds with one stone I guess.

Dear Andertons Team...please for all of us, accept the fact that vst plugins are a thing. This thing isn't designed for people plugin in preamp pedals at first, it's for the small modern plugin guy, that doesn't want to wake up his wife sleeping next room. Rob has demoed Fortin plugins for example. Okey i know you want and have to sell stuff, but a bit more honesty wouldn't ruin you.

Throw your amps here comes Sono 👌

I think Peter and Lee didnt cover the Sono well.. This Unit is somehow realy cool...Its versatile in smart way but have limitations..Versatile means you can use it as a normal interface with excaellent converters and throw at it all of your favorite vsts like Bias, waves, GR5 , amplitude, Nural DSP etc and get your guitar sound that way ...Or you can go thro the Tube preamp section, run your pedals up front and use the killer 2 notes IR software and get your guitar sound. And of course you can gig with it without a PC or a laptop..The limitations and there is 3 of them.. First, when you are using the preamp section with pedals and the Torpedo IRs, that's a line in which you cant change after..it means you need to dial in your sound and commit to it as a recording.. Second, what if you dont have pedals and you want an overdrive..well you can run a VST preamp.pedal in the daw after the line in right? Wrong..that would be horrible cause amps and overdrive should be before the cabinets Or IRs not after.. Third, when using your pedals thro the amp section, you need to dial them up each time after you change the nobs settings on them, to do a gig for example...yes you can store the preset in the Torpedo software, but that would be only for the IRs and not you external overdrive pedal. So here you go...I personally as a guitar player will get the Sono over any other interface..even with the limitation i stated..

It has an amp out Lee...just use it. Then you can crank the backing track in the room too, and the only bleed you need to worry about is in your ears...LOL!

Bought one yesterday £210

Cool piece of gear but my god..all power amp simulation and like..no pre-amp adjustments? Would be way better to model at least a few different front ends...May as well just buy the Wall of Sound.

threeways are great 7:38

With less B and more S. Nice

no mention of latency, it sounds ok

6:25 INDEED

Lee Anderton. Doesn't like digital technology... Became Famous on KZfaq. 😁😁😁

#PleasedWithPete

Graham Coxon almost sld me one! Still not sure!

You only get 3 free guitar cabinets and one bass cabinet with the Sono. Lee said 20 or 30.

Lee read the Unabomber manifesto kkkkk

Not interested much on the software. Just care about the tubes and the sound difference between this and a cheaper audio interface

Great demo boys. This one is definitely not for me (i'm not sure y'all were impressed either!).

i know its a interface type pedal next time in the end go direct to amp ...i feel your pain captain there is a place for all the computer stuff . Just not inspiring to me feels sterile an i know if you put it through monitors or good speakers ,but for 400 quid it needs tube power section an speaker an its a amp ...,shut off the pc an you got somthing there no affence to studio stuff pete said it best need to feel the amp going an moving ...its like night an day like recorded music or live music expirience...listening on the radio an being at the show ...

Great review as always guys. This sounds like total ass though. I've heard much better sounds out of amplitube and guitar rig.

I don't know or why the guys not explored the "normal" things, like the tube preamp section through a more complete IR loader or something, at the end it's a Audient product not Two notes; but all the demos sounds like... I don't know, to be honest; and I was very excited about the tube preamp, but the demos ... not exploring too much the thing just exploring the preset handy feature. And c'mon don't dare yet to say the - "recording with a headphone... this or that" or something like "actually better" but without these words at the end... please: we need to buy things yeah to play without bother people, or roommates and so on, but c'mon don't try to say without say cleary you know, elucidate that this bring us the feeling of playing and the feeling of real amp and cabinet ... please stop doing that guys, you don't need at all to be so force affirmative with a "fake plus" to merchan or sell things, some points (subliminal sometimes) really annoy me, damn. I mean, it's a good product, maybe not explored at all in the demos, and yeah: digital stuff mixed with analog stuff is my go to also, but I think we don't need to push so hard on some points that actually still not there and who have possibility to see and fell in the face the sound knows that us is not there yet, and specially say the headphones in some way is the way. In time we'll see youngsters in 20 - 25 years after this era with a premature damaged hearing in future (hope not even myself), or say that some 3 inch speaker can nail 4x12 speakers (and is better pushing this idea to people, instead to put too much effort on the headphones, "we need to listen music together again") and give us the air and the fell of bigger speakers, tube or transistors, and like this we'll have the 40% plus the sounds that maybe we'll never hear in a final recording or in the shows listening majority the sounds of PA's. Some things just can be achieve with ours ears hearing the "source" and not hearing the return "loss" of the mics capturing the loss of the captured sound from preamp passing through the poweramp into a whatever speaker, believe me - listening to the David Gilmour playing in front your face is different to listen Pink Floyd on Vinyl and probably people like Gilmour achieve that inspiration to create through the source to make a legendary final product who gives the hungry to listen that supreme +40% plus of the combination of the source and being, that's why the shows in the past was a big deal not only for socialize and burn some shit.

IK Multimedia Axe I/O

So it's a Peavey Mini Head minus a power amp? Lol.

You are better of buying a good guitar preamp and a quality interface to capture your sound

If Pete can't make it sound good, it's probably really bad. Good looking, though.

Stop using damn music mans, I can't afford 'em

no amount of shop talk can stop this unit from sucking. yukko. j.

Please do sound like Metallica by busting the bank

119 comments at this point...didn't feel like reading through all of them...but did anyone mention "Feels like Fender Fuse"? Did anyone mention "Feels like Audacity"? Did anyone mention "Feels like Behringer Tube Monster & VTone Acoustic ADI 21? Technology already exists Sono. But, good try. PASS!

not for beginner

I agree with the captain on digital technology, just keep it out of music

ridiculous.. they need it to be rack mountable, I have no space for that !

This is literally just the wall of sound plug in..in an interface. What a useless product, doesn't even sound good without a helix or something on the front..in which case you wouldn't need this.

Having a big vacuum tube in an audio interface for a really niche purpose seems like a big waste of energy and space to me. This is exactly the kind of stuff where the NuTube excels at, so I wonder why they didn't use it considering the technology has been on the market for few years already.

fail

Been recording for about 20 years. Professionally and sometimes for just a hobby. This product is stupid.

If you have a Windows system avoid Audient at all cost. Their drivers on Windows based systems are awful, crackle,pops, and horrible Latency, just dreadful. I have an Audient id14. Shame really the Pres sound fantastic.

Please tell me more about the guitar that Pete is playing; it is BEAUTIFUL! I was hardly able to focus on whatever the video was supposed to be about!