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Sound Card Recommendations
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:28 pm
by jute gyte
I'm in the market for a sound card. The Edirol UA-25 seems good for the most part, but I've also heard some pretty bad things about it. Any info on that, or suggestions for an alternative?
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:07 pm
by Adam!
I like it a bunch. My only complaint is there's some digital noise on the instrument pre-amp (none on the mic pre), but it's so low that it always falls below my noise gates, so I never really notice it. Because it's 24-bit you can afford a little more headroom when recording. Also, it has an impedance matching switch that makes my guitar sound a hundred times better than it used to.
So, yeah, I recommend it.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:35 pm
by jute gyte
My main worry is that my computer has USB 2.0 ports, and the UA-25 seems to be designed for USB 1.1. I've read a few reviews that mentioned this mismatch causing lots of noise. Do you know anything about that?
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:24 pm
by blue
lies.
the cheapie USB/FW interfaces seem to all have really shitty high-noise headphone amps built in, but the 2.0/1.1 thing doesn't add noise.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:21 am
by Adam!
Yeah. The only noise I could imagine would be dropped samples from maxing out the serial bus bandwidth, but I've used it in double-full-duplex (2-in-2-out concurrently) with the midi going too and I've never had a problem (And seeing how that's the max # of inputs and outputs on the UA-25, you'll never have a problem either). For the price of a few textbooks it's not a bad upgrade.
But I can understand your concerns: you wouldn't want any noise in a Jute Gyte song. ^That would sound totally out of place^.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:50 pm
by Me$$iah
Again I can only keep banging on about
Creamware so much....
But still Im gonna...
If anyone gets the chance seriously check out these cards
Awesome-O 2000
Me$$iah
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:31 am
by jute gyte
I picked up a UA-25 and it's working very well so far. Thanks for the help!
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:05 pm
by a bebop a rebop
Does anyone have any experience with the M-Audio Audiophile 2496? I'm leaning towards it (as an upgrade over my onboard soundcard), but that's primarily because of the price. If anyone can recommend a better PCI solution at the same pricepoint (~$100-120), I'm all ears.
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:38 pm
by Me$$iah
In my experience M-Audio cards sound really good.
And for the price an audiophile is a great choice. Tho ive not used one myself, I had a 1010
I used the 1010 for ages and it served me really well. Always sounded good, day in day out, and it came bundled with a demo copy of abletonLive, which I found an amazing program.And a full copy of reason. The digital converters that were in my 1010 were really nice, I guess they use the same system in the other cards.
Tho for a few dollars more, keep an eye on ebay and get a 3DSP luna2 card from creamware $100-$150(ebay prices obviously)
other than that,I dont think you can go far wrong with an M-Audio.
Tho bear in mind I havent used that particular card..but have had some experience with M-Audio and heaps of others
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:32 pm
by jb
a bebop a rebop wrote:Does anyone have any experience with the M-Audio Audiophile 2496? I'm leaning towards it (as an upgrade over my onboard soundcard), but that's primarily because of the price. If anyone can recommend a better PCI solution at the same pricepoint (~$100-120), I'm all ears.
i believe that's what jeff fal (of ADD Music) uses. Or one of the audiophile cards anyway.
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:27 am
by HeuristicsInc
2496, that's what i got for my desktop on starfinger's recommend. have had no problems with it, like the sound. good purchase.
-bill