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offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-23 13:38 [#02157377]
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Which one to get? (Not for me)

I'd advice a Protools card but they aren't diggin Protools
so what else?

Last time I was shopping for a soundcard was '99...


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2007-12-23 13:49 [#02157381]
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a good fast and cheap one


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-23 13:52 [#02157382]
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that would be better than a bad, slow and expensive one


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2007-12-23 14:00 [#02157384]
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in other words giving no information on what for this is or
for how much money the card should be you cannot expect
another answer


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-23 14:36 [#02157397]
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jesus christ, under £300, lots of I/O


 

offline llc from United States on 2007-12-23 15:40 [#02157409]
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I got an M-Audio Fast Track Pro about 6 months ago, and I
love it so far. Almost zero latency, and outputs very
high-quality sound.


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-23 16:23 [#02157418]
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do you mean sound card or audio interface? i have a motu
ultralite interface thats very decent, loads of I/O. The
last soundcard i had was a completely gash creative labs
audigy that had this marvelous unpredictable "hellfire
scream of death" bug that nearly blew my head off on several
occasions. mark avoid like ebola.


 

offline freqy on 2007-12-23 20:52 [#02157478]
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rme or EMU ( do not buy USB2 versions)


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-24 01:57 [#02157508]
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Audio interface, something with a breakout box for the I/O.
Any specific names and model numbers? I like the look of the
M-Audio stuff (mainly because Protools will work on them but
he's a Cubase nut)./


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-24 04:40 [#02157520]
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I have an EMU 0404 and it does a great job. Hasn't got a
breakout box or much else, but if you're looking at sound
cards, I'd go with Emu. This thing hasn't given up on me.


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2007-12-24 05:04 [#02157527]
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I have an M-audio 24/96 it sounds fantastic to my ears. No a
lot of I/O but i am sure that the M-audio range is good
across the board. Plus they regularly update their drivers.


 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2007-12-24 11:34 [#02157641]
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SBLIVE !


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2007-12-24 12:11 [#02157656]
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I've got a Terratec phase 26 usb card. Pretty decent
sounding to me. It's got spdif coax and optical ins and
outs, 6.1 surround if you're into that sort of crap, inputs,
outputs, midi I/O and some LEDs.
There is a sound on sound review:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb04/articles/terratecphas
e.htm

I got mine from Thomann and it's about a hundred quid.
http://www.thomann.de/gb/terratec_phase_26_usb.htm

Magic numbers are 24bit and 96kHz.
It's got some limitations (read the review) but is cheap and
pretty good stuff. I've got it to work with linux too!
--------Conclusion:------------
jesus christ, under £300, lots of I/O -->
Terratec phase 26 = 2 out of 3.
---------------------------------


 

offline hanal from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-24 12:17 [#02157657]
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these sort are pretty sound..


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offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-24 12:17 [#02157658]
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That looks like just the ticket. Thanks


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2007-12-24 12:18 [#02157659]
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I need more info


 

offline freqy on 2007-12-24 12:22 [#02157661]
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i got an emu 1616m and an 0404 (pci) and both are god sends
.patchmix is awesome when you know how to use it, real nice
.

i mentioned to avoid usb2 b'cause i ordered a lexicon usb2
sound card for my internet machine and it was shite....the
latency was so long i could press play... go make some tea
..come back ...wait ...count to 78 say the alphabet
backwards a couple of times and then realise i had put some
shitty pop music on way too loud listen to it and hate the
world i live in for that reason ...
i 'might have ' exaggerated a bit there but but nahhh
screw that...go with PCI ..and have the abilty to record
multi channel no wonder that lexicon box had direct
monitoring ( i e you would monitor a split rather than
monitor through your program ( cubase or whatever) total
shit. i hated it i nearly killed a flower in the garden
through such annoyance.




 


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