[LAU] hardware: recording voice and acc. guitar

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:57:02PM +0200, schoappied wrote:

> Mmh in The Netherlands, the Delta 1010lt is 209 euro's...
> 
> And if you had to choose between the Delta 1010lt and the Omega?

Well, I do have the Omega.  But I bought it used at a quarter of the
current retail price.  I've never seen such a deal on a delta 1010lt.

Also, I have had reason to have a portable interface.  And when I'm at
home, the Omega replaced my mixing board (all 8 inputs are active at
once and go through a simple level only 8x4x2 onboard mixer).

The Delta1010lt is probably a good bit lower latency, but if you don't
need real time software effects, and if you don't need to record more
than 4 tracks at once, and you don't need 96khz sampling, then most
signs point towards the Omega. 

If I was going for a PCI card for home to use in the most straight
forward manner, I would go for a Delta 66, and I would hunt on ebay for
the best deal I could find. (just don't ask why I'm going with a Marian
Marc 4 instead).

And frankly, I'd be unlikely to buy any of the devices we've talked
about new.  I buy cables new.  I buy things new if I need them more
quickly than I can order them.  I buy things new if they just can't be
found for a good price used.  But if I have time to wait for delivery, I
always look for used first.