[RWP] A good soundcard for a voice over talent?

[Chris Belle]

Digital is nice, but has it's own issues, not all pres have digital 
paths, and you have to make sure everything matches up, which can often 
be a headache especially with these inaccessible control pannels.
You can have jitter and clocking issues,

Digital is not automatically better than analog, just because it's 
digital in other words.

Analog, a good clean balanced one has the advantage of not caring what 
sampling rate, or clock you put to it, and this is a wonderful way to 
get around rounding errors and re-sampling issues.

I often use my delta cards to dump between my mackie onyx 1640i
going either way when I want to say take something from 24/96 to
16 bit 44.1
rather than dithering down with software.

The analog pathway on the mackie is quieter than the delta, but since I 
have the 44 and the 10 10, the balanced versions of the delta cards, 
it's much quieter than the 10 10 lt.

Also some pres do adat lightpipe, but if it doesn't support esmux you 
are stuck at 48k.

so i guess what I'm saying is that good analog i/o which can accept 
descrete line inputs, or input from another pre is more valuable, 
atleast to me, than better dacs.

Also, if you have pedals, keyboards, or anything with a line level out-put,
it will always be 100 percent compatible.
and work with both old and new gear.

On 6/28/2014 6:04 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
> Not without spending a lot more money.
>
> Your problem with the l t is not your a to d conversion but that you 
> have unbalanced i/o
> except for the mic pres it's all r c a connections, and those are 
> inherently noisy unless you are very careful.
>
> Most converters these days are pretty good, it's not like it was in he 
> 80s, and there are a lot of places home studio guys can improve elsewhere
> and get a much better sound than the dac.
>
>
> On 6/28/2014 4:34 AM, Mario Loreti wrote:
>> Hi, I was looking on it.
>>
>> Actually I have an M-Audio Delta1010LT, and now I was looking at a 
>> better a/d conversion.
>>
>> Do you believe that this a / d can be better?
>> Il 27/06/2014 19:20, Brandon Keith Biggs ha scritto:
>>> Have you looked at the Roland quad? Dancing Dots sells them.
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Brandon Keith Biggs
>>>
>>> On 6/27/2014 4:32 AM, Mario Loreti wrote:
>>>> I've looked to the focusrite forte. Why you have preferred the motu 
>>>> to the focusrite?
>>>> Il 27/06/2014 10:19, Patrick Perdue ha scritto:
>>>>> Have you looked at Focusrite stuff? Those have good preamps, even 
>>>>> their low-end stuff. I had a Saffire Pro14, loved the sound, but 
>>>>> ended up replacing it with a MOTU Audio Express.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 27, 2014, at 3:34, Mario Loreti <mario.loreti at gmail.com> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, I'm looking for a good soundcard with good a/d converters.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've looked at the RME interfaces, but these have too many inputs 
>>>>>> and outputs, I'am looking for 4 in and 4 out, not 8 or 10.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone suggest something?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
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