[linux-audio-user] Re: Cheap Ass Gear - Linux-audio-user

28 Feb 2006

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 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:41:29 +0100
 From: Carlo Capocasa &lt;capocasa(a)gmx.net&gt;
 Subject: [linux-audio-user] Cheap Ass Gear
 To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
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 After throughly discussing the matter with myself in one of the recent
 threads, I have decided to buy one of these babies.

 http://www.musicgate.ch/oxid.php/sid/
 80a0861528715ba10d991d222b7cea8e/cl/
 details/cnid/6de41fdfcc49e8d26.98526461/
 anid/a64439d2dcebda552.04446416/Samson-C01U/

 (For an explicit photograph of it it is necessary to piece together the
 URL, but this is probably not the greatest length you have gone to to
 find pleasing imagery online)

 I've been screaming all around how there is no linear scale of quality
 and how everything is subjective while secretly drooling over Paul
 Davis' latest phidelity discoveries.

 That's pretty hypocritical to say the least. 

I have one of them.
It works fine with Linux, but it's noisy as hell.
The a/d is fixed gain, and the level control is digital after the a/d.
Not good for noise performance, but you don't have to worry about
dither. :)

If you don't need the portability aspect you will honestly get better
results with the non usb version and a tiny behringer desk for the pre
and an old soundblaster live card for your a/ds. The non usb version is
a little cheaper, so getting it and a few other bits and pieces should
not cost much more.

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 It so happens that I'm living on a series of loans the Swiss government
 is issuing to me on grounds I don't get into trouble (it has been a big
 sacrifice) which aren't exactly designed to match up with the latest and
 greatest in the QBDD* tested section of Pro Audio hardware designed to
 be pleasing to people who bias themselves by reading the specs before
 listening in order to give quality statements that are generally
 accepted as non-biased. 
The good old government. :)

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 Whew :)

 And since I have to decided to change this situation purely over sine
 waves and my own sexuality (recorded in the waves) it makes sense to run
 low overhead for a while. I've seen these two chicks recently, one of
 them fat, causing quite a stir in me playing UKULELEs. One of them
 smiles heftily enough to move a jackhammer through freshly pressed and
 carefully crafted brick pavement (or whatever), and I like that.

 http://www.thehazzards.com

 I actually bought a CD from them, which I will never listen to, they
 sound awful, but for some reason I wanted to give them money and there's
 a pair of red luscious lips on the cover. 
A good album cover is equivilent to 4 extra bits of resolution in the
recording. This may not be true, but it's a SCIENTIFIC FACT.

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 Wish me luck with my el-cheapo USB mike! I'll be posting irrevent music
 soon. Nobody will be speared. Uh, spared. I think. That's Carlo
 Capocasa, reporting live from my uncleanly apartment in St. Gallen,
 Switzerland.

 Carlo

 *Quadruple Blind, Deaf and Dumb