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The interface is great, especially for the price. Sounded great with both my Rhode NT-1A and AKG C 535 EB. Build quality was fine, especially at the price. Be aware that "effects" (such as reverb) can be monitored but recorded dry, but "dynamics" (such as compression or de-essing) MUST be recorded wet if they are used, and can only be used on one input at a time. However, the Mac driver for the device is a user-space USB setup that, believe it or not, does not work with the Mac application sandbox. Thus if the US-366 is set up as a "default" audio device, many applications will work just fine (such as VLC, or Studio One 2). Others, however, will show wonky behaviour. For example, QuickTime Player will respond with a "-101 Unknown" error. Depending on the version of Safari you have and whether you are using YouTube's flash or html5 player, a video's audio may or may not sound. Again, be aware that ALL app-store apps are sandboxed, this includes the latest GarageBand and Logic, so neither of these work as default devices. The bug has been reported to Tascam/TEAC and they are investigating. However, you can look in your Mac's console log to verify this yourself. Just search for "sandboxd" entries and "denied", especially with regard to "iokit" (the hardware driver part of OS X). This is on Mac OS 10.8.5 with the latest 1.02 driver and 1.02 firmware. No 10.9 drivers currently exist. Too bad... I've decided to return mine. :-(

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