oh!<br>BTW those last time we tried to support Tascam it was a nightmare... have not gone back to the nightmare.<br>For the record the zoom H products work and you can modify one for 4 input.<br>thnx<br>ron<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Q <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@quirq.ukfsn.org">lists@quirq.ukfsn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hello Massy!<br>
I have a Delta and I suspect they will use most of their elements in the USB cards as well. I'm not sure about phantom powered input, but the preamps are good, my 16bit/48kHz works perfectly and the converters are good.<br>
We compared the preamps with those in a roaldn/Bos BR1180CD, which is a harddisk-recorder. I think they will use different preamps now, but if not: The delta mic-preamps were much better than the boss ones.<br>
that's unfortunately all I can say and guess about it. I know, that a friend of mine has a fasttrack and has been running it for quite some time without hitches.<br>
Kind regards<br>
Julien (the Namite :-) )<br>
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I'm by no means an expert on this, but from what I've read you should not make any assumptions about USB sound cards based on similar devices, possibly based on similar chipsets, that are PCI devices. Whilst chipsets may be the same, there can be problems relating to transmission of data over USB when it comes to USB2.<br>
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I do have an M-Audio FastTrack Pro which I bought for use with a netbook, but ultimately I've never actually used it as a USB soundcard so can't comment about that. I just use it as a pair of pre-amps into the analogue inputs of my M-Audiophile 24/96 for my synths (I use the SPDIF inputs/outputs with offboard ADC/DAC for mic input/monitoring).<br>
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I think I recall from when I was researching USB soundcards that the FastTrack works okay, providing you don't expect high throughput, in other words it works fine for USB1 but not USB2: according to the ALSA wiki the FastTrack Pro only has a reduced channel count at anything greater than 16/48. But I'm only going by what I recollect reading, not by experience.<br>
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