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    I was wondering if it would be necessary to get a sound card if I'm doing all of my mixing in ableton and I'm not doing any headphone cueing. If would it be fine if I just hooked my laptop straight to a mixer with 1/8" to RCA cables or a 1/8" to 1/4" cable that's outputting to a PA instead of hooking my laptop to a sound card like the audio 2 dj and then plugging that into the mixer.

    I guess what I'm mainly wanting to know is if a sound card makes that big of a difference in audio quality if you don't need to do any cueing with headphones or mix with an external mixer.

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    Most laptop internal soundcards sound like garbage, especially on a good sound system. I would pick up an Audio 2 from NI at minimum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brocklambert View Post
    Most laptop internal soundcards sound like garbage, especially on a good sound system. I would pick up an Audio 2 from NI at minimum.
    Alright. Thanks for the quick reply!

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