UA-3FX USB Audio Capture and Playback Device

The UA-3FX offers a tremendous variety of connection options and features in a compact, USB bus powered audio interface. With added WDM, ASIO, and Core Audio support, it offers incredible creative capability with a comprehensive set of effects at an attractively low price point.

What can you do with the UA-3FX?

Even without a recording program, the UA-3FX offers some very valuable capabilities that will help you enjoy your music more.

Using any playback program such as iTunes or Media Player, you can use the UA-3FX to change the tonal characteristics of your audio on playback. For example, the mastering effects section offers a noise suppressor, enhancer, low-end boost, and a peak limiter. Using these effects you can remove background noise from the silent points in songs, adjust the high and low EQ properties, and compress the sound to make the over all volume greater without clipping.

Using the listening effects section, you can remove sounds from the center channel, typically used to remove vocals from a stereo mix, adjust the high and low EQ, and add reverb. This allows you to make your own karaoke files directly from professional recordings.

The UA-3FX also offers a performance bank of effects which allow you to adjust pitch for gender-bending voice effects, distortion/overdrive for jamming along with songs on your guitar, chorus to add a little depth to the sound, and a delay which is well suited to guitar use.

All of these controls can be adjusted in real time and allow you to quickly make subtle (and not so subtle) changes to the music you listen to, and allow you to interact with your music directly.

UA-3FX for Recording

The UA-3FX is best suited to the recording artist on a budget. It works on PC and Mac with low-latency driver support and supports your software effects as well as those on the UA-3FX. It can function quite well with most popular DAW programs and it offers mic, guitar, line, and digital inputs.

The UA-3FX has a capture and playback option for the effects onboard. When set to capture, you can record the processed source directly to the computer. When set to playback, you can monitor the effect on the output of the UA-3FX without applying it to audio coming into the UA-3FX.

Adaptive Focus Technology

The UA-3FX also employs Adaptive Focus Technology. Adaptive Focus Technology combines powerful DSP and 2 sets of 24-bit AD converters. The DSP acts as the brain for each AD converter offering more sensitive sound expression while maintaining a greater dynamic range.