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Posted by teknasia on Dec-14-2004 10:20:

buying hardware for home use..

Recently i bought myself a Radium 49 keyboard from M-audio..

It's my first piece of hardware for my upcomming producingstudio!
After the holidays I want to buy more hardware.. What could I best buy next?

A soundcard? Now I use an onboard soundcard of my A7N8X-deluxe mainboard.. should I buy a new one?

Or some monitorspeakers? (active or passive?)

or a mixer? ...

plz can any1 help me out

tx in advance!!

VyliX

Posted by cheesy on Dec-14-2004 10:39:

Personally I plan on buying monitors and a FireWire audio and MIDI interface next. After that either a Korg EMX-1 or maybe an Access Virus TI desktop if I can afford it.

Monitors if you don't have decent speakers. Actives are less of a hassle. A sound card would be good too.

Does anyone here even use a hardware mixer? I'm not sure why you would unless most of your studio was hardware based since all the mixing can be done on computers now.

Posted by h.vox on Dec-15-2004 11:54:

Re: buying hardware for home use..

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Originally posted by teknasia
Recently i bought myself a Radium 49 keyboard from M-audio..

It's my first piece of hardware for my upcomming producingstudio!
After the holidays I want to buy more hardware.. What could I best buy next?
A soundcard? Now I use an onboard soundcard of my A7N8X-deluxe mainboard.. should I buy a new one?
Or some monitorspeakers? (active or passive?)
or a mixer? ...
VyliX

get a new soundcard, since onboard cards are crap, both in sound quality and audio production usability. you can get m-audio audiophile, emu0404, emu1212m, esi waveterminal or some other good soundcard, there are quite a few out there. after that, some monitors should be next on the priority list - actives are less hassle, but i use hifi bookshelf speakers with a decent amplifier, so you can use that too. do not get a mixer before all that since the only thing you can connect to it is your computer

Posted by Pjotr G on Dec-15-2004 12:48:

A mixer only becomes a necessity in a hybrid setup, especially with outboard FX. If I were you I'd go with the monitors, or the decent soundcard. You need both anyway so which one first is a matter of faith. I'd say monitors. That way you can hear the change in sound a soundcard can bring