See thread title. I may play some music with it too, but I'll mostly be capturing sound with it (recording voiceovers, etc). Any questions, ask. Thanks.
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See thread title. I may play some music with it too, but I'll mostly be capturing sound with it (recording voiceovers, etc). Any questions, ask. Thanks.
the turtle beach santa cruz cards, while out of making were really good. the creative x-fi's are probably overkill but might be what you want.
there are of course much better cards but they are also very expensive. the x-fi regulars are around $100.
I mostly use Sound Blaster cards myself, although it's mostly due to high quality playback and not for recording, but the recording is decent for the price. Before we had such things as Bittorrent, I recall hooking up my Dreamcast (using Sega's VGA box, not the shitty regular cables) and recording some tracks from a game and making a cd from them. While not perfect (it IS a consumer sound card) it was more than adequate and made a pretty good CD. I can't remember if I did this with a SB Live Platinum of an Audigy, but they are both close enough not to matter. Oddly, when using the PS2 optical cable to do the same thing produced worse results than using the DC's RCA cables.
Supposedly the X-Fi series is a step up as Dyne said, although spending $100 for a good sound card isn't too much of investment to me. Now that I think about it, my Audigy is the single most expensive piece of my computer though.
If you want a cheaper alternative, the Audigy 4 is $80, the Live External (gets good reviews for everything but gaming) and a good Turtle Beach card would do the trick. Or you may try to find one of the older SB Live or Audigy 1 platinum packages off the net. Do not get the SB LIve cards on store shelves now for $30. They are great for the price, but don't compare with the SB Live cards from a few years ago that originally sold for $100.
Creative, you can send my commission to my Paypal account
I read that Soundblaster cards are kind of crap for A/V work. I cant remember what my friend bought instead.
yeah if you want to actually do audio work what i posted won't cut it, like i said. i didn't think dole was getting TOO much into it though.
and yeah soundblasters are considered crap because their drivers are about as bad as installing Norton on your system.
dole check out the sharky forums. they have an audio only section.
Yeah...a REAL sound card for AV stuff puts anything you'll find on Compusa's shelf including the SB stuff to shame. But they're pretty expensive too, not sure if Dole's going to be that hardcore.
Good thing diffx mentioned that soundblasters are crap for A/V work, since I was thinking of getting one. Thanks for your help so far, guys.
I'm not planning on anything too hardcore. I mostly want crystal-clear, static-free voice recording for when I do narration on movies I edit. I also might want to grab some sound effects/music from certain DVDs but mostly I want a good card for voice.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
Hands down, get this card. You aren't gonna find any card with better audio quality or driver user interface than this one (EDIT: for the money). It does not, however, have a mic pre. Do you have one already? If not, you can try this one. Pretty much the same thing but USB interface and has two mic pre's built in. Both of these kick the living SHIT out of anything that Creative makes.
Truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Looks sweet, and the price is right. I'll look into it. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mykozo
What does this offer over just plugging my mic/headphones into the jacks on my PC?Quote:
Do you have one already? If not, you can try this one. Pretty much the same thing but USB interface and has two mic pre's built in.
The card I recommended can take a line level input, but doesn't have a pre-amplifier for the mic, so you would need one to use a mic. The second one, the usb one, has 2 mic pre's built into the box so you wouldn't need a seperate pre. The benefits? Your onboard sound card is horrible; horrible converters, horrible mic pre, horrible everything. The usb card would give you a decent quality mic pre and a good quality audio card all in one package. The cool thing about the usb one's also is that if you need to do any location recording or anything like that, it's portable and self contained, so just plug it into a laptop and your ready to rock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite