MAONO Audio Interface, MaonoCaster 10-Channel Podcast mixer with Pro-preamp, 48V Phantom Power, Bluetooth, 11 Customize sound pads for Recording, Streaming, Youtube, TikTok, PC, Guitar (AME2)

If you're looking to get started in the streaming world and don't know where to begin? Well, I discovered this Maono console. It's a very complete starter set. The model I liked was the one that comes alone. It's very well packaged and really good quality. Besides having seen several videos on how to use it to the fullest, their customer service is also outstanding. I had some complications with the configuration and settings, but the prompt response from the support team solved my problem and everything was fantastic! And that's really comforting, having someone to help you with the products they offer. I 100% recommend Maono products. Exceptional customer service, and now I can enjoy what I wanted to do with the Maono AME2. 100% portability, all inputs work great,make you feel like a professional, very light, the controls easy-to-use, design versatile compact and don't distraction when is on use...multiple mics can handle ( nlby the brand), I use a mic fifine, and responding very smoothly 😀

This is an excellent product of amazing quality. I am in love with this product and company. I bought my first audio interface in 2022 and even gifted my friend one that same year. Just last year I bought a new one and as of now I am hoping to get a newer model. At one point I had problems with one of my audio interfaces and I got in contact with customer support and they were kind and efficient in helping me with my problem. Overall I highly recommend this audio interface and brand.

This soundboard is a beast for my PlayStation 5, great for live streaming, soundboard, playing music in game or party chat, the ability to customize the way you operate this board giving you the ability of different inputs and outputs you can do. For the price and the features I thought it was a good buy! If I found this on sale it would have been even better!

Very fun to use. I'm still mastering the functions and buttons but so far so good. Hooked up to my Mac book pro without issue and records nicely

Maono did it again — I own 3 of their mics and 2 interfaces, and this one is just spectacular. Perfect for singing, smooth sound, easy to use… I seriously couldn’t ask for more!

The instrument knob in the instrument game and the output is all different from what’s coming through the headphones.. the other maonocasters work perfectly this one has issues with the sound going to the streaming device. It’s not what you hear. There’s no way to get it even. Or sound good through the headphones it has to be through a monitor. This needs to be told before anybody buys this. Get the maonoCaster AMD200 it does that already. It works perfect for the same price.

This audio interface is really good!

If you're new to multitrack audio, this is fine. If you're looking for a way to toss in some fun sounds during Zoom calls and co-op games, this is pretty much perfect. If you're looking to record audio for your podcast or YouTube channel or etc, this is decent. But if you're looking to record really professional, clean, high-quality audio through this, either from instruments or microphones, look elsewhere.The mixer on this is pretty janky, it's rough and has very little "fine" control over the actual audio levels, the sensitivity just isn't very dialed-in. The EQ knobs on the primary line in (for low, mid and high frequencies) have too much overlap to make a significant difference in the timbre of the audio passing through, the frequency ranges aren't isolated enough. The pitch knob doesn't account for Formant at all, so it's just a really cheap-sounding effect reminiscent of a children's Halloween voice-changer. The phantom power causes a noticeable "hiss" in the background, at least for my mic (which does NOT hiss when plugged into a DBX tube channel strip or even through a Shure inline preamp). The Reverb effects are all really similar and all really overbearing, there's no solid difference between them other than their EQ and even applying them subtly sounds really cheap - it works much better as a "joke" effect than anything serious. And the AutoTune feature is really dreadful, it barely works and there's no "soft" way to apply it, it basically just makes your voice warble a bunch and you sound bizarre, but you don't really sound "in tune".Furthermore, the sample buttons are SUPER finicky - the "short" sample buttons can actually play much longer clips than the manual indicates, but they ALL interrupt one another. So if you're playing one sample (short or long) and you hit any other sample button, it cuts the first sample. The buttons also work inconsistently and I can't think why. If you hit a SHORT sample button and then while it's playing you hit it again, it restarts the sample. If you hit a LONG sample button (the three that play 1:10 of audio) and then hit it again mid-play, it stops the audio. If you hit short OR long, and then hit a DIFFERENT sample button (short or long, doesn't matter), it starts playing the new sample. If you hit a long sample, and then double-hit the "repeat" button designed to make the long samples play over, it cuts the sample short. That "repeat" feature by the way? NOT seamless, there's a very noticeable half-second or so when it replays, and if that's gonna be there then there's no reason to have a repeating sample. If you can't make it seamless, why not just have it be LONG? The only reason to make it repeat is for background noise/music, but if there's a big "gap" in it then it's pointless to do that.Maybe the most frustrating thing (besides the hiss in my audio) is that all the samples you put on those buttons have to be RECORDED "live" onto the buttons. You have to route a line into the interface, either via a cable or via Bluetooth, then you have to "clear" the sample button by holding it down until it flashes, then you have to hold down the sample button for THREE SECONDS (with no countdown or anything indicating when it's actually gonna start recording) and when it starts flashing then you have to quickly hit "play" on the audio you're trying to record, then you have to hit the button AGAIN to stop recording (or just let it play out and have a bunch of empty space after your sample, which is sloppy). The problem here is that there's likely going to be a second or so of empty space BEFORE your recording because it actually starts recording just a tiny bit before it starts flashing to tell you it is recording. So between when it starts recording and when you realize it's recording and hit the "play" button on your sound, that empty gap stays in the sample. So, if you're doing LIVE audio and trying to pepper in sound effects off-the-cuff, your little sounds will be on a little DELAY from when you hit the button. It's "minor", but it's such a sloppy problem to have and SUCH an easy fix. What this thing should have done was include a sound-import function. The thing plugs into your computer already, why wouldn't there be the ability to access the device's internal storage via your computer and drag the audio files you want directly into it? They could have made software for it to give you much better control, but if not that, they could have at LEAST just made an internal folder structure with folders labeled "Long1" "Long2" "Short1" etc and then you could drag mp3's and wav's into the folders. I mean, even something like an APP (since the soundboard connects to Bluetooth devices, like your average smartphone) where you could import clips and edit them and assign them to buttons, etc. In that same app, you could adjust the reverb feature to make your own presets instead of their terrible ones, too - why not?Also, minor point, but it's REALLY annoying that you're expected to record pro audio with this... and every time you hit a button that adjusts something (like the autotune, reverb presets, loop back, and DENOISE button) there's a lady's voice that very very loudly declares that you've just hit that button. So you can expect halfway through your recording when you realize that the Denoise isn't on, you'll hear IN YOUR RECORDING some stranger's voice loudly blasting into your microphone "NOISE CANCELLING, ON!" right overtop of your vocals.But here's the kicker that really turned me off - and to be clear, I STILL use this thing, I don't hate it, this just really amazed me - the thing only works with battery power!!! It has an internal battery that has to be charged via USB... and the USB that it plugs into the computer with DOESN'T COUNT!!!!! You have to plug in ONE cable for the data (to actually USE the thing) and a SECOND cable to POWER IT. You can run it for a little bit on battery, but it doesn't last very long and it's a dumb problem either way. This thing so quickly becomes a cable-management headache, between having the power cord, the data cord, the mic cable, and anything else you want to plug into it.You're better off getting an inline preamp for almost all cases, because then in ONE cable connected to your mic, you're sending your mic into the computer and powering it and getting better audio quality all at once with one line. This thing is a glorified toy.I still use it, because it's a fun toy, it livens up Zoom meetings and makes my TTRPG sessions more fun because I can just toss out little joke effects here and there according to what my character is doing. But it's absolutely NOT a professional tool in any way whatsoever, it needs a couple more iterations before anyone should consider it for professional use.