Soundcards

Heres an excellent review of Asus’ new sound card, it gives Creative a good run for their money.

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I’ve always used creative. Although I’ve just started to use my Virus TI as my soundcard as well when producing from my laptop.

first of all it depends on how serious u r with music prod. and if ur planning on making money or just for kicks…
for someone thats just starting i would recomend m-audio, they make excellent value for money sound cards that gives you pretty decent sound…creative sound cards are made for music reproduction not for production and even though u can still make pretty good music it will never sound the way u want it to sound…so my advice would be go for m-audio fast track series as it it pretty decent for music production an dj-ing….hope this helps

If you have free slots on your computer you can use audiophile.
If not – you can use one of M-Audio’s USBinterfaces:
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=pro … interfaces

If you can afford it – I recommend the Fast Track Ultra that has an internal DSP with very low latency.
If not – you can get the basic version – Fast Track which have basic interface of 2in/2out with phantom power and an XLR connection with volume controls.

I am using the Fast Track and satisfied with it.

Crackatowa wrote:

I’m pretty happy using the M-Audio Audiophile 2496. It’s got a good onboard mixer and hooks up everything i need it to.

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I use the EMU 0404. It’s great!