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Posted by dazzed on Mar-09-2002 16:42:

cheap laptop audio input

okay guys heres the deal.
I have a school issued laptop and the darn thing doesn't have line in. and needless to say a microphone looses all the sound quality. so i'm on a hunt to find a cheap soundcard. i bought a pcmcia one for like 30 bucks that was ancient but it win2000 didn't support it!!

the only other thing i'm thinking of is the creative labs extigy. 130, but does anyone have any other ideas? as im pretty damn broke cuz of all the records

thanks!
dazzed

Posted by HyPeRSoNiC on Mar-10-2002 06:40:

all you need is drivers for the "ancient" card.... just get them fom where you bought the card, or dounload them from the internet..... I think that with the drivers, it won't have any problems supporting it.
and if that still deosn't work, then maybe you should try buying a newer (but simple. nothing fancy like Creative cause their too darn expensive) pcmcia soundcard....... that should do the trick.....

Posted by spectra on Mar-11-2002 14:54:

yea

The Creative series of cards are ok, for that sort of thing any old shit should do, but for producing tracks, or mixing then I wouldnt recommend the Creatives.

Posted by DJ Filth on Mar-11-2002 16:18:

I got a great input/output device for my laptop for around $250 USD. It's Roland UA-100. It's got 2 inputs, 2 outs, plus midi control. A bunch of onboard fx. 24bit A/D processing. They're phasing them out to push the UA-5's which are 299 but is mostly for Digital input. It sounds great and is completly reliable USB hardware. Check it out.

Peace
-DJ Filth

Posted by spectra on Mar-12-2002 12:57:

yea

Roland are old school, and were known as beasts back in the days when the Soundblaster 8-bit was the standard card. I don't have any personal experience with Roland tech, but I would estimate there good.