I use it to record with electric violin but it only pans on side no stereo output... same issue when recording with electric guitar.

I use this for various purposes from capturing audio for analysis as well as regular live recording from a mixing console

One channel dead as a doornail, but Audacity records the one channel as two, so it took a while to realize my effort and my time was wasted.

The levels were touchy and you had to set the level at almost 0 in Audacity to get a good recording without clipping.

This may not be what you want to master a record on, for getting decent sound from an analog board to a computer without any set up hassles; nothing to download and nothing the set!

This rumbling/cracking noise keeps distracting me when recording but strangely enough the recording comes out clean and crisp

I was never happy recording on my pc with Audacity, always got background noise, not loud but annoying

I see very little difference between this and the Ucontrol UCA200 that is in the PodcastStudio USB kit which I have relegated to my travel rig (I do some recording on the road, and like to have the equipment in a bag ready to stash in the truck and GO...

The recording was great, crystal clear, excellent volume, without any noise

This rumbling/cracking noise keeps distracting me when recording but strangely enough the recording comes out clean and crisp

Using this little thing attached to my mixer I can use any laptop as a portable recording studio!

and I thought reading the details of this is would maybe make a better recording than the Giffin iMic

I was amazed how quiet recording was all of a sudden

My solution was to try using another free recording application:

- I already had my own recording software (Audio Hijack Pro) which has worked wonderfully with this device.

I opened my preferred recording software(Audio hijack Pro) and selected the USB as my source and instantly had audio coming in there as well

In order to achieve decent recording levels I have to turn the mixer channels to the max, but when you do that you will experience overdrive clipping

Noisy when recording

Audacity is great recording software

I connected the unit to the "Tape out" of my Behringer Amplified Mixer, so I got all the instruments and vocals on the same line out, and I used a software called "Cool Record Edit Deluxe" (only because I knew this product before, and I had no time yet to learn to use the products that came with the UCA222)

I/O is concerned.