[access-uk] Re: ssound blaster audidgy 1 or 2? and alternatives
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 13:22:55 +0100
I guess the problem is that if one is determined to get a higher quality audio
soundcard other than the ubiquitous Sondblaster then, if integral microphone
input is required, the sound quality on the Mic side is bound to be less than
perfect, for as Tristram has pointed out, the gain structure of most ordinary
soundcards means you have to present quite a high input from a mic to deal with
this. Maybe this is why some mics are sold as being 'computer mics', or
whatever. They tend to be high ouptput electret types, or maybe even have a
pre-amp built-in.
Once you get into the realms of really high quality audio then microphone
pre-ampts become external, as much to avoid computer generated noise, as to
provide higher sensitivity.
For not too demanding use, I guess it comes down to the Turtel Beach or maybe
Teratec cards. Higher quality cards to consider are the M-Audio range, or
maybe Yamaha, but the latter is pretty firmly aimed at the music fraternity. A
good place to start is:
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/browse/category_id/9f73a8ba694fa4af34e42f1936f270a5
Dolphin Audio, not to be confused with Dolphin Access, is a firm in Merseyside.
You will quickly see that external cards connected via USB or Firewire are a
large category in themselves, and this might be one way to go. Many of these
cards too enable defeating of SCMS copy protection to enable digital transfers,
although I've a feeling the Audigy might allow for this too.
I would certainly not want to foist unnecessarily exspensive soundcards on
people, but for those wanting to do serious, high quality recording or
transfers, then these alternatives are certainly worth looking at. If anyone
does find an internal card which conbines a high quality mic input(s) with the
usual line in/out, then I'd certainly be interested.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn"
|I have come to position that the porblems some Jaws users experience have
| more to do with the nature of the Creative drivers under the 2000/XP
| platform than Jaws itself. Whilst I wouldn't dispute the intrinsic audio
| quality of the Audigy card for what it is, most musicians and sound
| enginneer types don't tend to use the Audigy unless price is a
| consideration. There are much better units available without some of the
| driver issues which have been felt more widely even than Jaws users with the
| Creative cards .
|
| Hissy recordings are mostly the result of poor gain optomisation, and with
| microphones coupled to relatively poor quality pre-amps sucn as found on
| domestic style soundcards.
|
| Regards.
|
| Tristram Llewellyn
| Sight and Sound Technolo
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