Behringer Guitar Link UCG102 USB Audio Interface Reviews

Just plug in and go. Main purpose is recording bass guitar and it sounds great! You can also use it to just run headphones. Sooo…adapters all day! The 10th gen IPad uses a C usb so I have an old school usb female to a male C adapter. Otter Box case is in the way so I added a C male to female to slim down. Oh, and an adapter for the headphone jack. It's perfect if your making demos. I've also used it with a mic and an adapter. There's a big instruction manual but I've never looked at it. The thing just works and could not be easier to use.

Behringer is a favorite brand of mine for interfaces pedals and gadgets. This interface works perfectly. It is built tough and is affordable.

I use this adaptor with my Samsung Note 8 phone. I had to purchase a On The Go (OTG) connector (uSB female to USB c male).

I use Android app called Tone-Bridge that lets you search a song and find the tone in the library of tones. Works great and is Free.

I also use it with software called Deplike. Good to create your own tones with.

Usually I use the headphone out jack going into my Aux input on my guitar amp. NOT the guitar input. At night I use headphones

Good affordable adaptor for beginners like me!

I get good sound through usb and headphone outputs. I have had no latency issues. I'm sure it's not studio quality, but that's not what I need.

I've had this for little over a week or two and I am not dissapointed in the slightest. It's easy to hook up and even easier to use. It sounds great as well so there's literally no downsides to it.I totally recommend this for anybody who just wants to jam on the go or maybe even write a quick riff you just came up with without having to hook up to a bunch of equipment that you would normally use.

I use to be like WOW!! every time I come in but I have gotten so use to being treated like a king every time I am there that is the normal now, as for the products they are always top notch and if there is a problem it is fixed on the spot.

Keep up the great work.

Jeff Little Skunk Baxter

Plug it in, jack in your guitar and pull up your DAW. I'm using GarageBand. Cheap (or inc for free w/ Mac) Throw out the CD! Use the DAW amp models.

It works great. I know people just want to hate on Behringer.

Seriously, I don't get the negative comments, the device itself works perfectly.

Worked right out of the box...quick and easy set-up. I was able to start playing my guitar into Audacity, creating multiple tracks with no problems. Using Windows 7 Professional on my computer dedicated to music. Service from Sweetwater was quick and completely satisfactory. The package of treats in every shipment is always a nice touch (they take the "sweet" in "Sweetwater" seriously).

I love the Guitar Link. Works great and is easy to use. Quick shipping and they even sent me candy! Best customer service out there. Thanks!

Works so well with the right software.
Very conservative way to play, listen, and record guitar.
You need to try it to believe it.

I know this isn't advertised as an iOS interface, but it works really well as one. Of course you need the CCK (camera connection kit) to use this with an iPad. I am using it with my iPad mini to connect my guitar to Amplitube, and it works extremely well for that! Sounds great, and even gives me a line-out so I don't have to use the headphone jack on the ipad. Can't say that for the iRig-HD or Apogee-Jam. Also since it's USB, you can take a powered USB hub, and then connect this along with a USB mic, or a USB midi controller all at the same time into your iPad giving you a lot of options, versus both of the two other interfaces I mentioned use an OEM connector, so if you have those connected to your iPad you can't connect anything else at the same time.

Works like a charm sweetwater shipping time was Great any proublem i have they where there

I think that the Behringer Guitar Link UCG102 is a great, inexpensive and easy to use interface. I am a hobbyist and I use mine for bass guitar in conjunction with the Audacity sound recorder. I needed something simple to start out at this point and this was the the ticket. (Some higher-end stuff cost as much as medical equipment!) This was my first time using a musical instrument interface so I had to realize that that once it is recognized by the computer you will not hear your instrument until you call it into whatever audio program that you want to use it in. Once I realized that the mystery was solved! It works great on bass guitar as well and is just plug and play.

I love the link, it took lots of help from Sweetwater Tec to get it working due to the manual being out of date, but all in all it's great....cnx

I bought one years ago and didn't use it much but I pulled it out plugged it straight into my bros laptop (windows 7) change the input in audacity been recording fine. Sounds how you'd expect for the price but is fine

Sweetwater was excellent to work with. Fast shipping, great followup! Product doe's exactly what I need at a reasonable cost. Easy installation. East to use software.

This handy little device sets up in seconds and does exactly as advertised and does it well. I use it with TH2 Overloud and Amplitube 3 and have not had any issues whatsoever and the addition of a headphone jack is handy as well. If you are looking for an affordable device to plug your guitar into your PC this is ideal.

This review is a bit preliminary as I have only owned the thing for a few days. So far it seems to work pretty well with PG Music's Power Tracks Pro Audio 2015. It worked horribly with tremendous latency with the Audacity software that came with it or even when I downloaded it from the audacity site. Horrible latency issues with that. Audacity would not accept the ASIO drivers and the Behringer drivers didn't seem to work very well and didn't allow me to adjust latency very well. I bought mine from Sweetwater because they have excellent technical support, 30 day return policy, and a free two year extended warranty. I had them help me get the thing to link up with the Power Tracks Pro Audio program and they were extremely helpful with that. They actually logged into my computer remotely although I'm not sure the guy actually had to do very much and I think just restarting the program made everything linkup. At any rate I haven't had any problems with pops or clerics and the latency thing seems to be well taken care of. I will update this review later. It seems to work well and is very handy however I am only giving it a four out of five because the software that came with it sucked and was relatively hard to configure to a satisfactory state. The Native Instruments Combo Pack wouldn't register and I have an email into them but it hasn't even been a full day at. I will update that too. I have yet to try it with my iMac/Garage Band.

When you plug in the UCG102 it registers its own input and output channels which can be finicky to configure depending on your existing audio setup. You can't just plug your headphones into the UCG102 headphone jack and jam - you need to use a DAW to even monitor your guitar. Doing that with software typically requires Steinberg's ASIO for plug-and-play monitoring and since Audacity (the included program) is open source (and thus doesn't support ASIO out of the box) you'll have to instead fiddle with the settings to get things working close to how you want it (or shell out some cash to pay for something with an ASIO license).

I was able to tweak Audacity (enable software monitoring, change the buffer/latency settings) so I could monitor but I could only make it work while I was actively recording (since Audacity records to disk instead of memory that may or may not be an issue for you). Ultimately I ended up using Reaper which allows me to monitor without recording. I'm using the trial version which means I have to sit through a nag screen but I don't mind - and I'll probably end up buying a personal license anyways ($ for the discounted Reaper license + $ for the UCG102 isn't a bad deal). There are other DAWs available so shop around.


Personally I was able to figure out what was going on because I have some experience configuring stuff on a budget but for a newbie I could see it being a little frustrating - which is ironic because at this price point it seems the UCG102 is targeted at just such people.

First of all I am not an experienced musician and this is the first time I have attempted to set up something for recording. And my technical skills could use some work. First opening the box I seen that the software came on a CD and I do not have a CD drive on my laptop. So the software for everything was useless. I then went to Behringers site download everything and the driver was pretty easy to set up. The Combos software was an issue though. It just would not load right. And upon further investigation and lots of frustration I discovered that the software does not work with windows 10. So you can just upgrade but it is not free. The link its self works fine.

The Behringer Guitar Link UCG102 works great. It's a nice, easy to use guitar-laptop interface that does exactly what you expect. It's great when you want to record something quick without cranking up the amp, etc.

However, the included Guitar Rig software leaves a lot to be desired. The one "free" program (AC Box Combo) does have a lot of nice presets and is very user friendly, but extremely noisy. Aside from the hiss there is an annoying click.....click....click that is not associated with the tap tempo function. I contacted Behringer Customer Service and was told that Native Instruments does not make the "demo" software. Quality is purposely left poor to prompt the user to buy the full version from Native Instruments. The other two programs operate in demo mode only (30 minutes at a time).

Also included in the software package is the Audacity DAW platform. It is an abbreviated version of the program. Go to Audacity's site and download the full version. It's free as well.

The drivers that come with this product do not work on a windows 10 pc. The Behringer customer service was entirely unhelpful and the only reason I gave this more than 1 star is because sweetwater was very helpful, I ended up talking to sweetwater staff for almost 45 minutes and finally this product does work, but it is a pain to set up after unplugging it and every now and then, when using headphones, a couple seconds of loud static is blasted into my ears. Save your money and by something nicer

Tried to set this up wouldn't work finally went on web-site found that this will not work with Windows 10. None of the software is compatible for windows 10. But as usual Sweetwater's customer service was very helpful.

Required lots of supports, new driver downloads, and still not nearly fast enough on any decent speed machines. Getting support from software provider web site (not Behringer) difficult and Behringer basically said "go away, we don't support this junk.". Sweetwater Support was WONDERFUL! They worked with me for a long time downloading drivers, new software, etc. Very helpful guy. However, at best we got it to a crippled, jury rigged with additional (not supplied) software.

Does not work like advertised. The Native Insruments link in the Amp package did not work so I was not able to register the product and activate my Combo pack until after finding the NI registration software on the NI site. You know things start bad when you have to update the software just to register it. The packaged recording Software, Audacity, does not even recognize the USB input and the amplifier package output is so faint as to make it inaudible. It took 3 hours of messing with the ASIO settings just to get it to that level. The problem seems to be that none of the packaged software and nothing I am currently running (Acid, Sound Forge) readily accepts the USB link. I've had better results running a Pocket Rockit directly into the microphone jack of the computer.

If you have a new enough version of Windows the 'default' drivers will get this working on your system. If you can find the 3rd party 'updated' drivers you get a bit more control over the device. HOWEVER, after trying different drivers and different systems there is an ever-present static noise transmitted from this device the entire time it's plugged in. Which makes it *completely* useless for anything other than very light testing of your setup. 100% unusable for any kind of actual recording or streaming due to the noise it actively generates, even with nothing plugged into it. Complete waste of money, definitely buy something else, by any other company.

Terrible static/noise no matter how it was used. On my phone with my Deplike app or directly into Mac or PC. It is unusable, because of this loud, constant static-type noise that blocks the guitar tone coming through.

Thought this might be a good solution for direct connection of my guitar. Simply could not get it to work properly. Unit appears to be made very cheaply

In an ideal world you plug the device in, install the drivers, and it works. In the real world you plug the device in, install the drivers, futs with configurations a bit, and it works. With this device you install and plug, and then scour the internet going from one hopeful piece of advise to the next, only to accept the fact that the device only costed $35, so maybe it is best to just cut your losses and buy something else.

I fear I have to agree with those who say "do not buy." I have struggled with this product for days and have yet to hear a single note. I have Windows 10 and that is probably a HUGE factor. Those who leave glowing testiments probably use either Windows XP or have managed to click the right buttons where I failed at the same tast. Either way, This is a very high risk item. For now I'm just going to go buy a small amplifier so I can actually HEAR my instrument. After that I might go back into battle from time to time. I won't, however, be holding my breath.

1. This piece of equipment is meaningless without proper software. The windows software that comes with this unit is made for 32 bit windows xp that is long gone. Initially i tried windows 7 Pro and then windows 8.1. Both initial attempts were without success. The installer is very confusing and essentially it is a redirect to asio4all driver. Manual is useless and does not match the real installation process.
2. Being an IT guy i made it work but it was an effort.
3. This product comes with some additional software but i didn't even try to use it after what i have been through.
My conclusion: not worth the money.

Tried everything, but it would not function on any of my PC's. Replaced drivers, tried different USB ports,no success. I'm assuming it was a defective unit.