Help a NEWBIE with buying right SOUND CARD!!
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Posted on May 31, 2007 01:27 pm
pc131
Member Since: May 31, 2007
Hello everyone, i'm new here.
I will have some questions, since i'm close to buy mixer + soundcard. Mixer is chosen: SOUNDCRAFT COMPACT4, soundcard: M-Audio 2496, ESI MAYA44, EMU 0404, EMU 1212 or ECHO MIA or anything else?
I will be recording guitar, vocals - drums and bass will come from applications... so...
I was close to buy m-audio 2496, it has ASIO support, good SNR, MIDI support, digital OUT but it lacks something like DiectWire - crossing virtual audio channels. Why do I need that? I would like to play guitar connected to my mixer (mixer connected to sound card) then i would use Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2 to add some effect to guitar and i would like to record it as a track in Adobe Audition or i would like to transfer this overdrive guitar to other app. Help me please is it possible with AP2496?
Another option is ESI MAYA44 - it has MIC phantom(but i will have one in mixer, so no big deal) - what i do not understand is what is the difference between ESI-MAYA44 and AP2496 INs/OUTs - ESI has so called BIG JACKs, ane M-AUDIO 2496 has RCA - which is better for me? ESI MAYA has DirectWire it is a plus! But it lacks MIDI and DIGITAL - buying additional card is required...
How stand E-MU 0404 and E-MU 1212 in front of ESY-MAYA44 and M-Audio 2496? I heard that E-MU has now CREATIVE engeeners, and this cards often fail.
Please help me to choose good sound interface for SOUNDCRAFT COMPACT 4.
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May 31, 2007 01:37 pm Welcome to HRC.
I have a question. Stepping back a step, you are recording guitar and vocals...everything else (being bass and drums as you mention) are being done via softsynths, drum machines or whatever...
Why do you need a mixer at all? Seems you may not even need one.
Have you looked in to the Line 6 TonePorts? It has guitar, bass and vocal preamp and effect models, phantom power and sounds great...makes everything very simple, and also supports ASIO.
www.zzounds.com/prodsearc...earch/a--884907
I record much like it sounds you do, I recent sold my mixer and honestly, haven't missed it one little bit.
pc131Member
Since: May 31, 2007
May 31, 2007 01:51 pm Hello
Yes i will be recording drums via softsynths, bass also but maybe i will have bass guitar the i will use input in mixer. I need mixer to have guitar preamplifier and mic phantom, MAYA has phantom but poor quality.
I haven't been thinking about Line 6 TonePorts but i will catch an eye on it.
I think i need SOUNDCARD+MIXER to have better support in audio apps. proffesional phantom and Hi-Z guitar input.
Also some soundcards like E-MU have DSP processor to apply real time effects and it counts for me.
May 31, 2007 01:56 pm If the only reason you think you need a mixer is for the preamps and/or phantom power, with a TonePort, then you wouldn't need the mixer...I record bass, guitar and vox using my KB37 TonePort (which is just a UX2 with a keyboard controller).
Your apps will have no idea if you have a mixer or not.
I'd seriously skip the mixer and put that money toward a UX2, or, since you use softsynths, maybe even the KB37.
The DSP is cool, but based on the small projects it sounds like you have, it won't help/hurt much either way.
May 31, 2007 06:04 pm I'll vote UX2 or KB37 also (then I would).
With it being USB you also have the flexibility to move it around if that's useful and if you ever decide to record more instruments you can add a mixer in front of it.
Toneport rules the home recording world in my opinion.
May 31, 2007 06:06 pm Quote:
Toneport rules the home recording world in my opinion.
On that we agree.
May 31, 2007 08:31 pm If you are not doing live drums get the Line 6 UX2
Very VERY easy and portable
Plus you get killer guitar and bass sounds included with it.
Phantom power for your mics
And its cheap
Jun 01, 2007 01:32 am Actually since you want softsynths the KB37 may be a better choice.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Jun 01, 2007 10:38 pm tony got that one right for sure. If you don't already have a keyboard controller then the KB37 would do just the trick. I own both a fully loaded PODxt and the Toneport UX-2 from Line 6 and love em both. But the UX-2 gets used way more these days for the reasons dB suggested. The bass models and the mic pre amp models. It is a killer and dependable little bugger for sure.
