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Sound Card Reccomendations (pg. 5)
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| Lith |
Good recommendations RANN. I can't use FW myself, no ports.
If you had to, preference to Apogee or RME? RME supports Win7 and OSX, but Apogee only OSX. I'm platform-agnostic, I use both, so am curious. |
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| DJ RANN |
Both are great to be honest - you're between a good place and good place with either.
It's just going to come down to I/O requirements and platform. Whichever you end up with will be rock solid and sound great. |
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| Lith |
Cool, thanks RANN!
This site can be useful! |
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| Vida1003 |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Funny to see a thread go 4 pages over 10 days with the OP never responding. |
Sorry about that, and thanks for all of the help/input everyone had but it looks like I'm going to be building a new gaming/production rig from scratch (some unexpected money is coming soon). Probably going to put a soundblaster z series ZXR in it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16829102050 .. I've been building gaming rig's for 6 years but don't know about soundcards. Is this a quality piece on a budget? |
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| Storyteller |
| No. If you want 5.1 you need to get into a whole other price range (probably over 400$). For regular stereo soundcards suitable for proper music production (and most likely running on USB and a breakout box) you'll spend somewhere in between 100 - 200$ on a low end card. Soundblaster is a consumer brand. If you really want something a bit more proper for music production you'll need to spend a bit more. |
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| DJ RANN |
| Completely agree with Storyteller. Soundblaster are basically useless for audio production, and what most people don't realize is that their "higher end" offering cost the same as entry level audio interfaces but will not come close to the performance, especially when you're dealing with latency and stability. |
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| Microlab |
| I was advised to buy Steinberg UR22 having being told that its drivers were more stable than those of other soundcards in the same price range. |
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| DJ RANN |
| I like the steinberg budget offerings. Heard nothing but good things. I'm not personally familiar with that model, but have used a couple of the others and they were certainly solid and the pres actually quite usable. |
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| optik |
tc studio konnekt 48 - it's f'ing amazing for the price. the bundled dsp eq and reverb are worth the price alone.
wonderful.
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| Vida1003 |
Would this be suitable? For entry level. I Just want good enough quality to be able to make basic mixing decisions like instrument volumes and weather or not I need more or less compression on a certain track...nothing super extreme.
http://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-Audiog...audio+interface |
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| inversoundzzz |
| I'm using a roland quad, it's good. |
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