Building a New PC...
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Building a New PC...
Since I spend so much time on here, and since I'm off to Uni soon, my old man's offered to help fund me to build myself a PC!
So I'm thinking with this PC I should get a nice soundcard with it instead of what most people do and spend loads of £££ on a graphics card (I don't play games on PC's anyway). As some of you might know I've already got a Boss BR1200CD DAW, but having multitrack recording on the PC would be pretty cool as it'd give me more options.
So what should I go for? I'd want a quality card that would cost around £100 (maybe a bit more if it was worth it), preferably to record at least 2 tracks of simultaneous audio. It'd be used with the SCA Neve N72 preamp (currently saving up for that right now).
So I'm thinking with this PC I should get a nice soundcard with it instead of what most people do and spend loads of £££ on a graphics card (I don't play games on PC's anyway). As some of you might know I've already got a Boss BR1200CD DAW, but having multitrack recording on the PC would be pretty cool as it'd give me more options.
So what should I go for? I'd want a quality card that would cost around £100 (maybe a bit more if it was worth it), preferably to record at least 2 tracks of simultaneous audio. It'd be used with the SCA Neve N72 preamp (currently saving up for that right now).
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I really like my E-MU 1212M. It will do everything you want and is within your price range. One good thing about it is that you can also use it as a regular sound card. One thing that does suck about it is that you have to use a decent set of powered monitors to hear anything. I have a pair of KRK RP6 Rockit monitors that I absolutely love. They set me back about $300 for the pair in USD.
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Bainzy check out http://m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family
under firewire( mobile) and pci cards as well for the money.
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How about something like this:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/A ... -main.html
any good? (that's definately in my price range)
apart from a soundcard and external preamp, is there any other hardware I'd need to get a professional sound?
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/A ... -main.html
any good? (that's definately in my price range)
apart from a soundcard and external preamp, is there any other hardware I'd need to get a professional sound?
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killer if the ins and outs are what ya need.Bainzy wrote:How about something like this:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/A ... -main.html
any good? (that's definately in my price range)
apart from a soundcard and external preamp, is there any other hardware I'd need to get a professional sound?
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cool - so will it have a built in A/D converter then?
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So then if I get this sound card, and a Neve mic preamp, what will the remaining limiting factors be that stop me getting a professional sound?
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from there unless im not quite awake yet - is the amount of ins and outs and the actual ad/da conversion - the more you pay the better the ad/da converters u get.Bainzy wrote:So then if I get this sound card, and a Neve mic preamp, what will the remaining limiting factors be that stop me getting a professional sound?
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gotcha. I was just wondering why you guys talk a lot about A/D converters on here, now I know why.
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Ones and zeros. Also as Mark said get the highest converter value that you can afford. The higher the value the more times the signal is sampled per cycle, means the closer you are to true analog sound.Bainzy wrote:So then if I get this sound card, and a Neve mic preamp, what will the remaining limiting factors be that stop me getting a professional sound?