sound card ?

[ibanez270]

Will a sound blaster live mp3+ sound good for recording midi and guitar?

thanks

[wmcnet1]

It depends on the inputs... number of inputs as well as type of inputs. Sound Blaster is great for basic home recordings to share with friends and neighbors. It lacks the sample depth and multiple digital / analog inputs for the serious home studio. If you want to make pro or sem-pro recordings consider one of the many outboard sound cards. I personally use an Aardvark Direct Pro Q10 (http://www.aardvarkaudio.com).

[ibanez270]

Thanks ,

Been looking at a Delta 44.
The SBLive seems to distort easy.

[G-man]

I too have the SB Live and have found many problems with it in both software and hardware, but it could be that I am running win 2K

[mriev]

You might want to look at the new Sound Blaster Audigy, it's an awesome sound card! You get true pro studio quality reverb, plus you are able to use extremely large soundfonts and sf2.1 soundfonts.

[steffen258]

I can recommend the Audigy too.

With the latest drivers I work perfect with WIn XP

[toriavalon17]

yes its good, but it really depends on the source

[johnrowley]

I use Soundblaster Audigy with the breakout box with guitar input from a Lion 6 POD box. System is a 1Ghz Athlon running Win98 and 256mb DDr memory. Excellent guitar sound. Card has low latency of less than 7ms so midi is heard almost instantly.

[Jobu]

Im running both of the two cards you mentioned, SBlive mp3+ & Delta 44, on Win2k. I use the SBlive for MIDI/soundfonts and the Delta 44 for recording audio. The SBlive served me well for a few years but is very noisy when recording audio tracks so added the Delta 44 for that purpose. Works well.

I wish I had gone with the Delta 66 rather than the 44 though. With the 66 you have the SPDIF inputs which means you can sync other cards with it, so if you wanted 4 more inputs/outputs you could add another 66 (or 10 with the Delta 1010). With the Delta 44 I'm kinda stuck at 4 inputs/outputs (serves my needs now).

P.S. - Had problems with the Delta 44 (clicks, pops, glitches) when i was running an Athlon system. Switched to a Pentium IV and have had better results. May have been a problem with the Motherboard I was using with the Athlon system though, hard to pinpoint.

[Zandro]

To deter the noise, mute any audio input you are not using, including Microphone, Line In, and/or etc.

[tootith]

The Audigy is pretty good, but you can only record at 16-bit (this is ok for most people, though). I use and audigy with a small mixer patched into the aux 2 inputs. This is fine for 1-at-a-time keyboard midi recordings, but for multitrack I use two M-Audio Omnistudios (delta 66). These work pretty flawlessly for me. If you use your computer for games and stuff though, you should probably go with audigy.

[prudencenz]

We are using two cards, one being a Yamaha for excellent midi reproduction and the other an Audigy Platnum which has served us extremely well and does record at 24bit. But it all depends upon what you are wanting to record in the first place.

Certainly you can go for expensive and elaborate set ups, but you may not have the time or finances to do that. Either way, the Audigy platnum I would recomend. It's relatively quiet and full of depth. The midi facilities are seriously lacking however. If done correctly a living room recording can create a sound equivallent to a good studio sound, but there are many factor involved in creating such an illusion.

I should also point out that software is also very important for recording. Although the Audigy did come with good basic record software, most of it we have replaced with thrid party software that are suitable to our needs.

If faced with an upgrade, we would very happily go with the Audigy Platnum again.

[Jobu]

The Audigy records at 16 bit, playback is 24. But they got you with the advertising didnt they?

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/audigy/specs.asp

[prudencenz]

Nope, recorded tracks show they they are 24 bit recordings.

[jo787]

iv got the Creative Audigy 2 its a very good card got lots of inputs



Creative Audigy 2
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 has just redefined quality audio! It is the only PC solution to enable the Advanced Resolution DVD-Audio era with 24-bit fidelity playback at 192kHz-stereo and 96kHz-5.1. Add 106dB SNR and Dolby Digital® Surround EX and users have an audio playback solution to rival any home hi-fi system and carries the THX® quality stamp to prove it! Audigy™ 2 also delivers high-quality multi-channel recording and playback at up to 24-bit/96kHz. For MP3 enthusiasts, Creative® MediaSource™ offers exciting features like Library search, SVM™ automatic volume matching across tracks and Audio Clean-Up for noise removal. Also SB1394™/FireWire® allows super-fast transfer of files to external devices. Finally the new Audigy™ 2 processor will delight gamers with EAX® Advanced HD™ effects, 6.1 surround and 64 3D hardware voices - making Audigy™ 2 the ultimate audio platform for today's hottest games!

[ManE]

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