But I would definitely recommend the pre-amp, on the service and reputation alone

Now I can hear and practice my electric guitar without having to use my loud amp to advertise my embarrassment

One big problem that will keep you from using the monitoring on the interface altogether (and from using it as a convenient headphone amp too) is that it absolutely KILLS the highs in anything that comes through these ports

The Headphone plug is basically useless, I would recommend any other headphone amp over that

Great amp

Louder amp effects sounded crystal clear, it was night and day compared to the cheap 1/4" to

The Mystic amps make the sound bright and clear.

and I thought it was alright, decent pre-amps and

Works as it should for starter interface.

I added the UMC22 to my laptop in order to extend the broadcast to new sources, make the broadcast portable as well as to do some interesting tricks with a softward video mixer.

As interfaces go, this one is as good as those costing two or three times as much

Hate the generic drivers provided by this company.the unit it self seems nice and once you finally get it working it sounds ok.not as good as my old M-Audio Fire Solo (but again, updated drivers for windows 10 killed support for that unit)which is why I'm really disappointed on this new unit