Help for a friend getting a sound card

camerondye · 25th January 2008

My friend is needing a sound card for listening to music, maybe some editing, and tracking, but tracking is the least important. He has a budget of $300. He mainly does live recordings and wants to edit them, and just listen to music while he works on his computer. This is not for a serious setup, but he wants to have options in the future. It can be Firewire, USB, PCI/PCI-e whatever. Thanks for the help and direction...
Cameron

john.sawyer · 25th January 2008

MBox Mini

camerondye · 26th January 2008

Any other ideas out there?
Thanks,
cam

Pasta4lnch · 26th January 2008

M-Audio makes a wide array of choices. My friend got the "audiophile 2496" for $100. cant be beat! sound is relatively decent . . .

camerondye · 28th January 2008

Are there any relatively inexpensive soundcards that have 8input adat connections?? The only thing I can find is the Alesis IO/26 which scares me, then the MOTU 8Pre which is $500 and he was trying to spend just $300. I think I'm going to tell him to save a little more and get the 8pre. Then when he wants to record a little he has 8 inputs and the ability to transfer all the stuff he has from his 8-track ADAT machine to computer.
cam

UnDeFiNeD · 28th January 2008

RME HDSP 9632 or 9652 might be just the thing he's looking for.
Adat I/O, stereo line I/O, PCI card for about 300$

Pzz

camerondye · 28th January 2008

The RME is a great idea but the one with ADAT is about $550, but it made me start looking at other things and there is an E-MU 1616 that is about $350. Does anybody think E-MU is any good, bad, indifferent? Thanks for the ideas...
cam

25th January 2008	#1
camerondye Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Durham, NC Posts: 1,418 Thread Starter	Help for a friend getting a sound card My friend is needing a sound card for listening to music, maybe some editing, and tracking, but tracking is the least important. He has a budget of $300. He mainly does live recordings and wants to edit them, and just listen to music while he works on his computer. This is not for a serious setup, but he wants to have options in the future. It can be Firewire, USB, PCI/PCI-e whatever. Thanks for the help and direction... Cameron

26th January 2008	#4
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camerondye Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Durham, NC Posts: 1,418 Thread Starter	Are there any relatively inexpensive soundcards that have 8input adat connections?? The only thing I can find is the Alesis IO/26 which scares me, then the MOTU 8Pre which is $500 and he was trying to spend just $300. I think I'm going to tell him to save a little more and get the 8pre. Then when he wants to record a little he has 8 inputs and the ability to transfer all the stuff he has from his 8-track ADAT machine to computer. cam

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UnDeFiNeD Gear addict Joined: Aug 2006 Location: Leuven, Belgium Posts: 393	RME HDSP 9632 or 9652 might be just the thing he's looking for. Adat I/O, stereo line I/O, PCI card for about 300$ Pzz