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diskonekt
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Posted : Jan 4, 2006 13:52
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What about ESIs and EDIROLs ? Anyone had n e experience with these cards ? I'm mostly interested in the edirol FA-66 and the ESI Quatafire 610 , so c'mon 
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diskonekt
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Posted : Jan 4, 2006 14:27
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ohh and one more question ... what about the focusrite saffire ?
cheers
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orange
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Posted : Jan 4, 2006 15:21
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saffire rocks man!! but pricy!
i love my terratec phase x24 shes great and soundz great great build and great price!!
just avoid service pack2
orange
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bandarlog
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Posted : Jan 4, 2006 17:06
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I just bought a terratec phase 28 for 160€. It arrived about an hour ago (woehoe) and i'm very satisfied with it! I had a buggy m-audio fw ap. The phase 28 is cheap, has 8 outs (jack) 2 ins, asio (works smooth!). No more firewire for me...pci all the way! Orange troopa: why avoid sp2? I have sp2 and it doesn't conflict. |
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Speggey
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Posted : Jan 4, 2006 21:13
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What do u think about the phase x24 besides u love it orange-atropa? 
Got one ordered |
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lalala
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Posted : Jan 5, 2006 17:48
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Just for the record i had m-audio audiphile in my pc and had no problems (not the usb one) in fact its a great card.
however I have had a few driver issues with my new m- audio firewire 410 and ,scarily, if you plug it in when its on with the large 6 pin firewire cable you can permanently blow your firewire ports !!!!
however soundwise its fine and once its up and going seems to be fine. havent tried for latecy yet.
a couple of mates have an emu and had driver and noise problems and it took them a long time to get it all installed properly and running smoothly.
Another friend has m-audio 10/10 with no problems. |
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Tropical Science
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Posted : Jan 7, 2006 14:47
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Recently we have been using the Echo LAyla 3G. It is a great soundcard. We haven´t had any problems since we have it.
The only problem is that it demands a lot from our pc. Now we must get a new Pci-X motherboard and i think we won´t have anymore problems.
We also want to get a more or less cheap usb sound card. Which one do you think is the best choice for about 200-250 dollars? |
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orange
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Posted : Jan 8, 2006 18:56
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On 2006-01-04 21:13, Speggey wrote:
What do u think about the phase x24 besides u love it orange-atropa?
Got one ordered
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i love it cos it works very good she has a very nice sound and fairly loud and quiet,asio drivers are very stable, good mic/inst preamps,very good built quality and affordable
@bandarlog
i said avoid sp2 for firewire not pci
orange
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Get-a-fix
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Posted : Jan 11, 2006 15:11
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I'd like to know if anyone has the Focusrite saffire? Is it any good?
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14-year old e-tard
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Posted : Jan 12, 2006 15:50
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On 2005-12-24 01:05, New Era Scientist wrote:
yeah maybe i should get a delta 1010 and buy some external mic preamps, and a bigger mixer and a midi interface
maybe it is the best way...
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That's what I've done. Takes quite a bit of space though.
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Carbon Based Lifeforms
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Posted : Jan 14, 2006 16:08
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In the studio I use 2* M-Audio 1010LT. Runs on a Intel-based machine with XP sp1. Works wonderful. Had big problems with AMD so I switched. High quality, very reliable soundcards for little money.
Only downsides that ppl might dislike is that it's unbalanced(RCA-connections).
Live I use Edirol PCR-1. Works great, very reliable.
I run my sets with that and a laptop with softsynths.
If you are looking for soundcards or a slim midi/audiocard-keyboard. Be sure to consider these.
/Daniel - CBL
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Dusty
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Posted : Jan 15, 2006 20:07
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i'm using an echo audiofire8... and before i had an echo layla24... echo does it good!!! |
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psychedeliquent
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Posted : Jan 15, 2006 20:18
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i am esi quatafire610 user, sounds professional, preamps and hi-Z not so good, but 32 midi chanels! very good for "liveacting" |
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black_cat
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Posted : Jan 17, 2006 01:00
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i use emu 1820m, runs smooth, clean, transparent, very nice choice in its price range, i also have M-audio FW 410, don`t like it as much as emu, even with the newest drivers dropouts, i played a live gig with this and i was praying to finish it without a crash. also headphones outs are very weak as stated before
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Freeflow
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Posted : Jan 18, 2006 00:03
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On 2006-01-12 15:50, 14-year old e-tard wrote:
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On 2005-12-24 01:05, New Era Scientist wrote:
yeah maybe i should get a delta 1010 and buy some external mic preamps, and a bigger mixer and a midi interface
maybe it is the best way...
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That's what I've done. Takes quite a bit of space though.
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yeah, but maybe you got a little more freedom this way? Being able to choose high quality components for the setup, like very good mic preamps and so on.
anyway im still thinking, and maybe i will decide when next paycheck comes... i dont know.
the thing that its unbalanced makes me hesitate a little cause i will probably use long cabels and i really want everything that can give me high quality recordings... though its not all up to the components, to know how to do it is a art it self..
i have droped the thoughts right now and we will see what happens.. still i have had no problems with m-audio so far... so its still a possible option... |
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