i've seen it said many times on the internet that PC's are very electrically noisy, and that this causes transmission problems with analog signals.

I have some nice Grado headphones for monitoring, but becuase much of my voice-over work will now end up being distributed as streaming Flash audio, I'd like to listen to the mix on cheap consumer desktop computer speakers as well -- the kind of thing that comes bundled with a PC or that you'd pick up at Circuit City or Costco -- that's what most of my audience will have.

Okay, so I have about 300-500 dollars maybe a little more, and i'm fine with new or used equipment. I need at least 4 channels of simultaneous recording at 24/96khz, more if possible. Right now I have a Sound Blaster Audigy that sucks, and i borrow a Mackie mixer when i need to record more than 2 mics at a time(drums), and I have an m-audio dmp3 preamp.

after reading some of these posts, its clear that you all like to beat the mole back in his hole for asking for broad advice. so if a grand stroke of advice is not your thing, then move along.

call me dumb...

I called MOTU tech support and they said to disable my internal sound card (which i thought I already did) but they didn't say how. I have a AThlon 2600 PC running windows XP Home Edition. Can someone help me out? Thanks

i am purchasing a computer and everything needed to record mostly acoustic style music with some other instruments at some times...(drums, piano, electrik :) )

I'm not quite sure what type of soundcard to get.. 24bit, 96 khz I'm sure is all i need.. and for mixing do i just buy the mixer and plug it into the sound card? I'm not realy sure how it all works..

hello, people. This issue may have been addressed sometime before, but it is of dire importance to me.

Odd problem;

Machine: 3Ghz, 2GB RAM, motherb:P4P800-E
Running XP.
Darla 20 and a Realtek AC97 soundcards.
Driver: 6.08 from Event.
(Realtek uses PCI 0 device 31, Darla uses PCI 2 device 10)

I am having trouble deciding whether to get an analog console or a digital one such as the DM24.

I'll be recording to a DAW on a PC or Mac.

I like the immediacy of the analog console but with a Digital one such as DM24 (actually only one currently) I can do without external AD/DA and go direct into computer.

Hi,

Another dilemna! I need a mixer now that I decided to put my studio back together again.