[LAU] What's some good hardware for recording??

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki eric at zhevny.com
Mon Jul 30 13:25:13 EDT 2007


On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:01:01AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Samstag, 28. Juli 2007 schrieb Brian King:
> > I'm looking for a hardware interface for recording purposes...
> 
> But you didn't tell your financial and quality needs. So lets see.
> 
> > At the moment I have a basic sound card that I either plug my guitar
> > into and run it into ardour which creates a single track or I have a mic
> > that sits in the middle of everyone jamming but I'd like to get a
> > m-audio delta 44 or similar so I can have more than one input stream for
> > multi track recording?? I've heard of a delta 1010LT which has 2
> > preamped microphone inputs which is good.....
> 
> While the 1010LT is cheap, it has the converters builtin (the same for the 44 
> and 66), which means they pick up the electronic noise from inside the 
> computer. And there is a lot of this electronic noise, otherwise the cases 
> wouldn't need to be made of metal to shield the environment...

While that is theoretically true, in my own practical experience it
hasn't been an issue with my 66. I think many others here have had good
experiences with these cards, even though the converters are inside the
case on the PCI card. That said, ianaa (audiophile) and ymmv.

-Eric Rz.



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