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Sound card question (newbie)
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:25 pm
by cjnelson79
I am just getting started with audacity and am first looking into proper equipment. First of all, my computer still has the stock sound card (high definition audio device) which I know isn't good. My question is if when I buy a mic preamp, do I now have a newer sound card for the audio to be processed with or do I need to buy both a preamp and a new sound card?
Re: Sound card question (newbie)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:28 am
by kozikowski
You can use a UCA-202 between the mixer or preamp and the computer.
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ ... Lenovo.jpg
It does very well and it's usually far better than built-in sound cards.
This is under re-write, so ignore the typos and bad sentences.
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/wind ... rding.html
Koz
Re: Sound card question (newbie)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:53 am
by cjnelson79
I mean for example If I only have a condenser mic and the m audio duo preamp. Are those two things enough?
Re: Sound card question (newbie)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:34 am
by cjnelson79
Or in other words does the sound card inside the m audio preamp bypass the pc internal sound card?
Re: Sound card question (newbie)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:30 pm
by cjnelson79
Wait I think I just discovered the m audio duo has just a stand alone adc/dac converter so that isn't what I need.
Re: Sound card question (newbie)
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:04 am
by bgravato
Depends on what kind of preamp you buy.
If it's a preamp with USB (or firewire) connection then the soundcard is bypassed.
If you buy a preamp that has only analog output, then you'll need to connect it to the line-in of the computer's soundcard.
If you haven't bought the preamp yet, I'd recommend buying one with usb interface, such as the ART USB Dual Pre. You'll find quite a lot of reviews of many devices on this topic:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477
If you already have a preamp, that doesn't have a digital connection, then you could consider buying a device such as the UCA-202. Again have a look at the above mentioned topic for reviews.
Re: Sound card question (newbie)
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:03 pm
by cjnelson79
Thanks. I have Windows 7 64-bit. I'm not seeing support for this OS from the art dual pre. Do you know which usb preamps work well with Windows 7 64-bit?
Re: Sound card question (newbie)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:33 pm
by bgravato
cjnelson79 wrote:Thanks. I have Windows 7 64-bit. I'm not seeing support for this OS from the art dual pre. Do you know which usb preamps work well with Windows 7 64-bit?
I don't use Windows, so I can't answer that question sorry.
