[LAU] Card advice: M-aud. Fasttrack vs. Rol. UA25EX vs. ?

[Ronald Stewart]

oh!
BTW those last time we tried to support Tascam it was a nightmare... have
not gone back to the nightmare.
For the record the zoom H products work and you can modify one for 4 input.
thnx
ron

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Q <lists at quirq.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> Julien Claassen wrote:
>
>> Hello Massy!
>>  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.
>>  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.
>>  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.
>>  Kind regards
>>           Julien (the Namite :-) )
>>
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> From experience, I would agree with Ronald about the FastTrack Pro's
> pre-amps -- they're noisy as hell (but I've never had the other one to
> compare, I'm going against my Focusrite TwinTrack pre-amps). Most of my
> synths are fine running through it as the S/N ratio is pretty good: but with
> my string synth (a late 70s Logan String Melody II which seems to have a
> pretty low output) I have to crank the gain quite a bit and the noise is
> pretty bad.
>
> I seem to recall reading that you have to be careful as there is a US122
> and a US122L and they are VERY different beasts which should not be
> confused.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Q
>
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