8 Feb
2007
8 Feb
'07
4:45 a.m.
At 9:06 PM -0600 2/7/07, Jim Leonard wrote:
When I think of "cheap soundcards" I think of Soundblasters, which
while they can be quite nice are generally considered a bad choice
for this sort of thing. $100 cards are typically more targeted at
playback than they are at recording.
Granted at this point, just about any cheap soundcard might not be
any worse than the pre-amp I'm using, but I assume you can guess what
one of my next upgrades will be.
I'm really happy with the FireBox, and more importantly, unlike my
old card for audio work, it supports modern hardware. I'd been
planning on just getting a M-Audio Firewire 410, but didn't totally
like the looks of it, so had held off. Then I found out about the
Presonus Firebox, and it rocks!
Zane
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If you're
going to take the time to do this, I would hope you're going to
use something a bit better than a cheap soundcard to capture the audio. All
You need to redefine "cheap soundcard". You need to look into the
state of sound cards *today*, not 2 years ago. There are $100 cards
that can record 96KHz, 24-bit audio with a signal-to-noise ratio
under -108dB... I'm doing
right now is 78's and I purchased a Presonus Firebox 24-bit 96kHz
in order to copy them (it's replacing a card from Echo Audio). Right now
the weakest point in my chain for 78's is the crappy pre-amp I'm using,
followed by the cartridge and stylus.
So I don't see your point about the cheap sound card :-) BTW,
*excellent* choice on the Firebox, it's good hardware.