I still think the EMU1616M is the best card you can get for less than £250. Its still a compromise at this level but bang for buck nothing beats it.
Last edited by Derivative on Jul-11-2006 at 01:18
Jul-11-2006 01:01
daeus
Superaddict
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: London
quote:
Originally posted by Derivative
I still think the EMU1616M is the best card you can get for less than £250. Its still a compromise at this level but bang for buck nothing beats it.
Allot of people talk about the "Juli" range of cards (the white one that offers you a choice of using phono or pro sound connectors) - worth a look in ?
I thought EMU was a company to stay away from because of the Creative influence now?
And if you say that for that price range why do rme, m-audio, and moreover, the new focusrite saffire get such great reviews-especially the latter?
m.. .
Jul-13-2006 12:54
Derivative
Bipolar Bear
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Dublin
Creative bought E-MU but thats no excuse to avoid E-MU products. Creative have always bought E-MU technology and used cut down versions of it in their soundblaster cards. It was inevitable for them them out eventually.
Stay away from Creative cards for production. E-MU cards are just fine. Creative just makes money off them now and can use E-MU tech in their cards for nothing. If anything Creative's financial muscle was probably instrumental in getting the 1616M out there at the price tag that its got.
Have you seen anything else for £250 that has pro tools 192 converters, ADAT/Lightpipe, AES/EBU in/out, SP/DIF in/out, -120 dB SNR on the output and 2 preamps that can suck up 60 dB of gain without distortion?
Without beating around the bush - it doesnt exist. There are better cards out there with better converters and better pres and better everything but you wont find it for 250 squid.
Jul-13-2006 20:11
optik
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: oxford
I have a 1212m - and I can vouch for the converters (they are fucking amazing sounding)
I don't need the extra inputs and outputs of the 1616 - although if you have a laptop it's a msut as all you need to run it on your laptoip and PC is a pcmcia converter for your pc.
the emu drivers were shoddy - but have matured well, with a well specced machine I now run at 4ms with no glitches till I get to about 80% cpu - then go to about 10.
you'll read a lot of shit about emu, but it comes from the past - their drivers for this family were truely useless to start off with - and the powereFX - the obnboard dsp based fx are only useful for compression when recording vocals, the rest are shite - especially the reverb.
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