Best Cheap USB Audio Interface For Home Recording

When you want to start home recording, the first thing in your mind must be looking for Audio Interface (external USB soundcard) for recording. Am I right?

Yep! because having a good audio interface definitely can help you to produce high–quality audio. Besides that, having a good sound-card for recording is also the main source and resource for all the magic happen.

Alright, so you want to start to build your home recording studio? And need to hold down the budget?

Here we have a list of the best cheap audio interface (external USB soundcard) for home recording. That might be useful for your references. By the way, I made this list is because “again” I just start my own home studio recording too. And I just bought one yesterday. The audio interface I bought is called DS Coustic. Almost similar to Pyle Pro but made by different brands.

Below is my new Audio Interface:

So, I hope the list of the Audio Interface below can help you a little bit to save your budget 🙂

5 Best Cheap USB Audio Interface (External Soundcard) For Home Recording

Okay! here they are, start from the cheapest one. All the products on the lists below are less than $100 in price. And all have the same general function of standard basic audio interface for professional and beginner.

Yeah! of course, more expensive the products, more good the result you will get. But here we try to find something that cheap but still good enough for the home studio recording project.

Pyle Pro

Pyle Pro is a good choice for PC Recording Professional and Beginner, it has XLR and 3.5mm Microphone Jack input, RCA Input, and Output. This mini audio interface also has 18V Power Phantom power. The latest price I check at Amazon is $37.80

For more info please check the the products at Amazon

Behringer U-Phoria UM2 & UMC22

Behringer U-Phoria has two versions I know, UM2 & UMC22. Both are good for low noise recording purposes.

You can found Behringer U-Phoria at Amazon. Last check the latest (discount) price for UM2 is $29.99 and UMC22 is $39.99. You can click the image below to visit the product page at Amazon dot com.

Behringer Xenyx 502

Behringer Xenyx 502 is very recommended if you wanted to have an audio interface with premium ultra-low noise and high headroom analog mixer.

Latest (discount) price is only $39.99 at Amazon

Lexicon Alpha

Lexicon Alpha is only $49.00 in (discount) price. With this audio interface, you can record up to 2 tracks at once. Have one XLR mic, two TRS line, one Hi-Z instrument inputs, and Two TRS and RCA line outputs.

For more info and good stuff you can check the product at Amazon

Note & Conclusion

All the product listed above is from Amazon. The price could change at any time and the product stock maybe has been sold out.

Unfortunately, the Audio Interface (external USB soundcard) of mine that I just bought yesterday which is DS Coustic (DS-1) I can not found at Amazon. But yeah! the spec is almost the same with those external sound card above. Especially, it very similar to Pyle Pro.

Anyway, I also want to disclose that if you buy from the link that I recommended above I will receive an affiliate commission.

I also use Amazon as my product references because is more easy for me to doing product research. If you are not living in the US. You can find the products at your local offline or online store as well. Below is the video of me recording using my Audio Interface. Please watch before you leave 🙂

And below is the raw version of the song above. Me tracking the guitar part.

Thanks for read my blog.