Re: [LAU] hardware: recording voice and acc. guitar

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Al Thompson <biggles58@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Loki Davison <loki.davison@email-addr-hidden>
> To: schoappied <schoappied@email-addr-hidden>
> Cc: Al Thompson <biggles58@email-addr-hidden>;
> Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:04:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [LAU] hardware: recording voice and acc. guitar
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>>wow. This is so wrong it hurts... You say phantom power not possible
>>from a pci slot or computer power supply but with usb mixer? ARRG! USB
>>is a great way to plug in your mouse. For audio, go pci, or if you
>>can't got pci, firewire or pcmcia.
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>>10 channel in 14 out. and yes, to Al, ......... phantom power on both
>>mic pre's from a pci card! wow.... like standard... The linux mixer
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> Just out of curiosity, where is the 48V coming from? There is no 48V
> available internally. There is 12V, if you want to limit yourself to AKG
> and Shure mics, but I wouldn't want to draw that much current from a
> computer supply.
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>>usb = crap. Oh, just in case you missed it. I think usb is a bad choice.
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> What's your dislike of USB? You can do 2x2 even over USB 1.1. Until the
> latest version of the Firewire standard, it couldn't hold a candle to USB.
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> FYI - in my project studio, I use a pair of 1010 PCI cards (which also
> refuse to work simultaneously under Linux). I just thought the goal here
> was to find something inexpensive, versatile, easy to use, with lots of
> features (which is why I use a USB mixer at home). If the goal was to have
> many ins and outs, 192/96 AD/DAs, and lightpipes, I'd have suggested
> something different.
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> Forget it, I guess my opinion's not welcome here.
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Of course your opinion is welcome. It's just the fact that many pci
cards do phantom power fine and within spec for any phantom powered
mic. I can't see how usb has anything better for this. Usb for audio
has a pile of problems technically. It's latency is bad, channel count
is low and in that case it was more expensive than the option i
showed. The echo mixer and envy mixer apps for pci cards are also
really nice with good VU's and easy direct routing. I don't think at
any point even for laptops usb was the best solution as pcmcia layla's
etc exist. I'm sorry if I sounded like an arse though ;) I just had an
annoying usb card for a long time and get vengeful if i think about
it....

Loki
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