réactions à la news [Musikmesse][VIDEO] Audient iD22

"Two things struck me about the iD22 – firstly the quality of the AD/DA converters are equal to, and in many cases better, than on interfaces that cost several times more. The clarity and imaging offered by the converters allows you to explore details in your recordings that are obscured with other convertors.
The flexibility of the system is the second way in which the iD22 excels. The headphone and talkback options give you full studio functionality and the monitor section gives all of the options available on a large console on the desktop. It is amazing how much functionality is squeezed into the unit.
The expansion allowed by the various analogue and digital IO means that the iD22 is likely to remain the centre of my project studio for some time to come – I can’t wait to add the ASP008 to it!"

Sam Proctor
Lecturer at the University of West London

"Having been a long-time Audient user - we've had an ASP8024 at Birmingham Conservatoire since 2002 in our Studio 4 that adjoins the Adrian Boult Hall - I was very keen to beta-test the iD22 to see how their first foray into interfaces would look and sound.

I wasn't disappointed. It's fantastically rugged in design, with seriously solid switches and knobs. The mic preamps sound great - clean as a whistle, with the characteristic Audient quality I've come to love in the ASP; the headphone amp has got plenty of gain, and is again clean as a whistle. And the routing is very flexible meaning you can use it in a variety of situations and adapt it to a bunch of different uses. It's nicely thought through by people who obviously understand their market.

Through the beta-test period I've used it as my main interface for my personal setup while I've been editing and pre-mixing a number of projects, even taking some through to final in-the-box mix. Most of my work tends to be classical and jazz, and because of my musical background and interests it tends to be contemporary-flavoured, and often pretty off the wall. All my projects need pristine audio quality and the highest resolution. This is the kind of music where audio detail is the key.

I've had a bunch of projects in post-production over this summer, including records for Decibel Ensemble, The Schubert Ensemble of London, Sebastian Matthias and Michael Wolters' Danserye Ensemble and legendary free jazz sax player Paul Dunmall.

Tthe iD22 has proved fantastically reliable and solid through all the projects. I have to say, even with the earliest beta-versions of the driver, it never crashed on me once!

Most importantly, though, it sounds great. I flit between various studios, both at Birmingham Conservatoire as well as external commercial facilities, that use interfaces from a range of very well thought of (and very high cost) manufacturers, and this little unit genuinely stands up. Both the Preamps and converters can hold their own against interfaces that are 3 or 4 times the price. It makes it seriously good value for money for serious users that need quality and flexibility but don't want to break the bank. I'll be honest, for the same money, you can pick up other mid-price interfaces that will, on the surface of it, give you "more" in terms of ins, outs and bells and whistles. But they won't sound a patch.

I tend to be a very paranoid producer on sessions, particularly those on location, but I felt confident enough to take the iD22 out for a string quartet recording session, recording the award-winning Coull String Quartet, a new piece by leading UK composer Joe Cutler at a church in Leamington Spa.

The recording rig was the iD22, with an additional Audient ASP008 (I have to admit I also took a backup system, but this wasn't required!), tracking to a MacBook Pro with Pro Tools, and a range of Sennheiser, Neumann, AKG, Audio Technica and SE microphones.

(Behringer mic pre was for the talkback mic system; DACs headphone amp fed from the main outputs 1 and 2 of the iD22 for playbacks for the quartet; M-Audio interface (using digital io only) as redundant backup).


Not quite "contemporary music", but a new contemporary interpretation, I'll be taking the iD22 out again in a couple of weeks time to record Ulrich Heinen, ex Principal Cellist of the CBSO, recording the complete Bach Cello Suites."

Dr Simon Hall
Producer, engineer, composer, performer (BCMG, CBSO, BBC, RSC, BEAST, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis etc etc)
Assistant Head of Music Technology: Birmingham Conservatoire