I looked for options online, and gravitated to the Behringer models because they are USB class compliant and work out of the box on Linux. It was clear from this first practice that we needed at least a PA system for our singing, and probably a mixing board to feed into the PA. I brought my kids into the living room for a band practice and we played through a bunch of songs to decide which ones to include in our set. They decided to schedule a free concert at a city park in order to motivate themselves to practice, and they invited me and my kids to play with them. One of my neighbors plays trumpet, and is in a brass quintet with a few other guys. Until August 2021 I hadn’t played a serious gig for over 20 years.
Over time I ran into a few situations where it would have been nice to have more than 2 inputs to record simultaneously from, but I mostly record by myself in a home studio, so this wasn’t a major limitation. (According to online discussions I have read, Focusrite 3rd generation devices are not quite as open as the 2nd generation devices, but obviously that didn’t affect my hardware.) I was pretty satisfied with the Focusrite device, which was ageing pretty well. I have been the happy owner of a 2nd generation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 since 2016, which I used to record all of my music on a Linux workstation for about 5 years.
This post will describe my reasons for purchasing this particular model, how easy it is to use in my Linux studio, some of its limitations and drawbacks, and other sundry observations. During the summer of 2021 I purchased a Behringer Xenyx 1204USB mixer/USB audio interface, and I have been using it in my Linux home studio ever since.
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