Audient Sono vs. UA Volt 476 vs. Audient EVO 8

SPOILER ALERT: CLICK SHOW MORE TO SEE WHICH INTERFACE IS WHICH
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This compares all 3 interfaces (including the Volt with the onboard effects, and the Sono's onboard valve). The original guitar part was recorded using the following signal path:
G&L ASAT Classic Alnico → Boss WL-20 → Boss RC-1
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A Sommer Colonel Incredible cable was used to run the Boss looper into each interface playing the loop. The same USB C cable was used for all 3 interfaces. A Tripp Lite Isobar was used for all power needs. Everything was recorded into Reaper and all interface levels were set to be within 1 decibel of each other (~-12db peak). All tracks were then normalized to each be -6db peak, and the final render was normalized to -14 LUFS with a peak limit of -0.3db.
The interfaces were:
A: Audient Sono with the valve enabled
B: Audient Sono with the valve disabled
C: UA Volt 476 with no effects
D: UA Volt 476 with Vintage effect and 76 Compressor on the 'GTR' setting
E: Audient EVO 8

[@nomojo1110]

(A) sounds sweet with nice dynamics. It'd be my choice. I thought (C) sounded nicer than (D), which sounds a little pumped up. (E) sounds the thinnest, but it's balance is good. Apart from (D) - which sounds ok - there's not a helluvalot in it. _Joe Bloggs_ would hear little to no difference. Cheers for the video, mate 👍 *edit: I don't own any of them so no bias one way or another ;)

[@darvinreed2314]

D for sure

[@RyanMcQuen]

High quality audio (16/44.1 WAV): gist.github.com/ryanpcmcquen/9b301a1edb256d3ec8b1686ff0eafcd2/raw/Interface%2520comparison%2520v3.wav

[@IamMusicNerd]

Definitely D for me

[@RyanMcQuen]

A: 0:00
B: 0:23
C: 0:46
D: 1:12
E: 1:39

[@Bronco2Cj]

Which device did you favor the most?

[@RyanMcQuen]

@@Bronco2Cj I mainly use an Audient iD44 now.

[@Bronco2Cj]

@@RyanMcQuen Gotcha.. as of right now I am on the fence between the Evo 8 and the Volt 4/476... I know you are now on the ID44 but between the 2 which did you like better or would pick if forced to choose?

[@RyanMcQuen]

@@Bronco2Cj I tend to prefer Audient stuff so I would go for that. I still use the Evo on the go.

[@Bronco2Cj]

@@RyanMcQuen I appreciate your perspective. Looks like I'll order the Evo 8 tomorrow from SW