[LAU] Recording Equipment

Sean Darby sean at seandarby.com
Mon Nov 3 15:26:24 EST 2008


> I found with my Delta 44 card (which is great) that i couldn't quite get 
> high enough levels recording guitar without some kind of pre-amp.
> mics definitely need pre-amping. Getting a mixer was my solution; its 
> got mic pre-amps built in and there's plenty of gain available.

Good motivation for me to get a mixer. Cool. :)

I secretly want a mixer, though won't get one if it is truly
unnecessary. Micing guitars and needing pre-amp, plus the availability
of several channels (stereo tracks) for micing - as I continue to expand
my microphone collection - is sounding like a mixer is a good idea.

> >  It seems like people are just using the ones
> > in the programs (like in Ardour).
> 
> I use the mixer in Ardour to mix the playback of recorded material.
> I use my desk mixer to monitor the playback from Ardour and the sounds 
> as they are recorded. there is a latency advantage here, too.
> You don't have to make  the software do _all_ the work!

That sounds like exactly what I'd like to do. :)

> As R.Wolff already pointed out, yes it does. Or rather, that's what it 
> is, mostly.
> If you get one of these look for the "envy24control" soundcard software. 
> ( its in the alsa-tools-gui package in debian).

Thank you for that info! I didn't know about the "envy24control", and it
looks like it's compatible with the chipset "ice1712" in the Delta
1010LT. It looks like it's a very helpful (and necessary) utility.

> hope this was some help. Best wishes, G.

It does help, thank you. :)

Sean






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