producers, what audio card you use?

Performance & Techniques Music Production
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producers, what audio card you use?

so my Envy24 family audio (wdm) audio card sucks on that setting and sucks when i use ASIO4ALL. its probably because it cost less than 20 bucks and its the wrong audio card for producing.

what audio card you have and how much did it cost? and do you think that card is perfect for producing?

tanks

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I got the Audio Kontrol 1 by NI. It’s good. Has mic input, guitar input and its pretty good for djing too :smiley:

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As I do everything on my headphones I went for the Asus Xonar Essence STX - its a pci-e card with a top quality seperate headphone amp - sounds awesome

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very interesting, what type of headsets you use?

you said it has a seperate headphone amp, a bit confuse, do you plug it somewhere else besides the headphone jack? or is it only in that headphone jack, that is juiced up

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I use AKG K240 headphones - nothing special but they sound really clear.

Yeah you just have 2 outputs on the card - one for your speakers and one for your cans.
The headphone socket uses its own hardware which is apparently a really good chip or something… Geeky stuff here

It seemed the best all round option for me cos I wanted it for gaming and stuff as well, I’d defintley recommend it.

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woot! so glad i’m not the only one =D

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If you want it for producing, I really can recommend the Apogee Duet. Definitely the best sounding card I ever used (I used similar products from NI, TC Electronic, Echo). It really sounds amazing. The only thing is that you don’t have a separate output for your headset, but for producing/live PA, you won’t need that.

Probably not the cheapest, but once you have a good soundcard, you probably don;t need a new one until this one break (not going to happen). Remember that this card only works on OSX, so Mac/Hackintosh only…

If you’re a Windows guy I can recommend RME interfaces. Super sound quality and very stable drivers, for Mac and Windows. They even have USB interfaces (BabyFace or FireFace UC) if your PC is not equipped with firewire.

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what daw u use, what OS?

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Ableton on 64bit Win7 Pro :slight_smile:

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I just use my Audio 2 dj. I rarely ever record anything live, so i have no need for the inputs. And with the audio 2 i have a Main out and a headphone out.

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I use my FSOpen with both my MacbookPro and iMac intels

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just perfect! =)

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M-audio fast track ultra. It’s great.

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MBox Pro.

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presonus firebox

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edirol ua-25

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Haha it’s funny how almost everyone has something different.

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m-audio profire 610 for me!

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can anyone help me out looking for a new audio interface looking to spend round £100 so looking at the 2nd hand market really.

was going to get the m audio fast track pro or the m audio firewire 410
but after doing a litte digging i hear they crap out and aint very good,but i need the features that these 2 boast i.e phantom power,midi,etc…

anyone have any tips or help would be great?

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I use a Tascam FW1804 interface