Best review ever. No knob left unturned. And a great piece of gear. Thanks so much !!!

What an incredibly in-depth review. Really appreciate the excellent work. Thanks man!

Hey man great video, out of a quick search yours seemed to be what I was looking for, and I watched the whole thing! Wasn't bored for a second, even during the parts going over stuff I don't intend to use. Nicely done

Just bought one of these and it's awesome.. Thanks for the review...

Great rewiew! it make me wanna the Sono :) Love that Telecaster

Excellent explanation the concept of this unit and how it works, a win for guitarist who just want to stick a lead in go.

Hi, thanks for the review, it helped me clear some questions I had about the sono, but I have one more question that I cant find the answer. Can you use the Reamp out while you record a clean DI sound with the sono? Something like, guitar --> Sono Guitar Input (record this to daw) --> Reamp Out --> Guitar Amp /cab/Mic --> Sono Input 2 (record this to daw too). So you can record a real guitar amp sound and a clean DI sound at the same time without needing extra DIs.

Hi, thanks for nice review. Did you use any kind of noise gate during recording this video? Some reviews say that the headphone output is somehow noisy... did you also experience this while your work with Sono?

Great video! I record mostly clean guitar tones. Will this work for me? Or is it more geared towards players with pedals and lots of FX?

Very useful to have the SM7b test. Presumably there's some stock mic pre-amps for vocals and DSP like compression, EQ and reverb that can be added vocals. My main use would be to replace my Line 6 UX2 for guitar and vocal live streaming so I was wondering if this is able to DSP vocals as well so I can send that to the stream.

great video. Does the Audient Sono come with a DAW? Can I plug an electric and bass guitar simultaneously? thanks

hi. have you got a video where you show how to use the optical in ?

Can the sono... Usb c connect to Android Phone or iphone USB c type... Recording as Audio interface?

Please answer cause I can't see the whole video now: I can import my own IR inside the Sono? I mean, normal ir .wav like owmhammer and stuff. Thanks!

Best video on this product I have seen. Got mine last week and still playing with it - I was hoping you could change the power amp tube type on the remote but I cant see how to, only in WoS plugin. The other question I had was you used a DI box to send the clean change to the DAW but I thought there was a dry signal path through the USB on a different channel - or am i missing something - not tried it myself though but I see a NO CAB output from Sono on the mixer software.

So is there a way to use this for a live setting? It seems like the "to amp" output strips out the processing and cab simulation. Is there a way to reroute the cab simulation sound through the to amp output so that I can hook up to another DI for live playing?

Just ordered that little devil 😍👍🏻

Nice review.. I wish they'd released this befroe I invested in an apollo XD

Nice demo :-)! I hope that micing with 2 mics will be possible soon, too...

I just don’t understand (and this maybe depends also on routing) on mono/stereo let’s say on headphones. If I listen mono room sounds from wall of sound can I listen stereo from the other features and from all the other softwares? Then is not clear from the manual if I can load 3rd party IRs/cabs.. Il not, could I connect and external IR loader?

What would you say is the difference between two notes' implementation in the Sono vs. the cab m+ (other than the absence of a preamp model)? I understand that the Sono is far less tweakable on device relative to the cab m, but if using the software remote, what are the key differences? Do they sound different, use different IRs, limitations to IR length, anything else?

Is it possible to use Reamp output live, alongside DIin ? .... for live looping or for some wet dry stuff.. sending 1and2 to monitors and output 3 to Amp In on a guitar amp?

Adam thanks for the video. Is there a way of adding stomp effects post amp and feeding it back to the Sono? (Like and amps FX loop) thanks

Quality product from Audient, they keep making interfaces that provide features of more expensive interfaces at a non wallet-burning price.

Does both mic 🎙 xlr inputs go to valve? would a stereo acoustic mic 🎤 setup work well with mic inputs?

Hi, you referred me here from the iD14 MKII review. That valve sound is very nice compared to the usual preamps! Is this a starved plate tube design (I am aware that the Sono has its own 12 V power supply)? Would you recommend this valve preamp for doing paid voiceovers? I have a bass-baritone voice, which could really benefit from this tube and its EQ section. Thank you!

Does anyone know if the mic/line 2 input is not supposed to show up in the meter lights? Mine does not.

I have the audient sono and have been using it for about 1 year. I was thinking of buying an external DI box instead of using the built in DI input as I noticed it's sometimes quite noisy. Having not owned a high quality DI box before (I have a cheap behringer which I have tried), how good is the audient sono input in comparison to say a Radial or Countryman? Is there a lot of difference or should I stick with the audient built in one?

Hey. How do you think reamp on sono compare to a regular 150$ reamp box

Great review, I just got mine a couple of days ago and coincide in most of the things you say here. However, there are things that could be looked into with more detail, for example, the use of pedals in front of the sono. From my brief experience, it's not like running a tube amp, it's not great to use with a compression pedal and even worse a high gain distortion or a mid boosty kind of distortion, if you do use such distortions you've got to find the right mic and cab combinations that will allow you to hear the guitar and the pedal without all of the high fizz (If you use the studio room and get the mic farther out, you may cut some of this out). Compression pedals are not necessary, in my opinion, because feels like sono is already compressing your signal. Would also be interesting to run an amp in a box kind of pedal with valves into sono, also, it'd be interesting to try and reamp into an AB box to run a wet-dry rig. Cheers!

So I'm trying to silently record in my apartment and I play metal so im not sure if this will get the dirt I want. I use amps and I've been doing research and I wanted to know what you would recommend, something audient + a torpedo reload or a clarett + reload. Thanks, love your vids!

which cabinets are free? I bought that but need to buy each speaker cab separately, thanks

I wonder how that distorted mic effect works with harmonica

nice review, would have loved to seen about about it's ASIO performance and little driver review for windows 10.

Hi! Is it good as Two Notes Cab M/Captor soundwise? THX

I love their preamps. They just need to fix the latency issues

Can you bypass the DSP on the Sono and use it as a regular interface to use with your VST programs? Can you bypass both the DSP and the Tube sections to use it with VSTs like a DI signal? If yes then this is the ultimate interface for a guitar player..

did u know it simultaneously records a clean DI on channel 9 i think it is when u use the DI and two notes stuff? so no need to record one on channel 2 :)

Is it a good option for a Kemper owner?

I see that with this review you've already reviewed all the Audient interfaces . . . except the iD14, why?

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.

Ehh... I guess it's time for me to buy one. (I hope)

the reamp out spits not much volume

Theon Greyjoy

very?:)