3 Nov
2008
3 Nov
'08
4:26 p.m.
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! 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