Thank you for your answers: > Not sure what you want-- that may be why you get no response. By two > channels in, do you mean a single stereo channel in? What do you mean > by > "two xlr entries" or "preamp"? sound cards tend not to be mixer > boards, and > especially not cheap mixer boards. Why not buy a cheap usb soundcard > (I > like the maudio transit-- under $100-- it has a standard stereo in) > and add a preamp if that is really > what you need. > > Why do you need XLR connectors and a preamp for Internet Podcast?
I need a professionnal voice microphone, like in a normal radio. Therefore, I need XLR entries. > I have an Edirol UA-25. I don't know if it's fully supported, but as > far > as I can tell, it works perfectly. It records and plays in all the > bitrates etc. > it's supposed to, and the MIDI interface works as well. > That doesn't mean that every Linux program works well with it, since > some of them > e.g. Audacity seems to assume that it should have mixer controls, > which > it doesn't have, since those are on the box. But I've used it with > Jack, Ardour and > Rosegarden without any problems at all. I phone people using SIP protocol. The SIP phone (Twinkle) needs a mixer. At the same time, I record my voice at high rate. Then I mix the result in Audacity, but I will soon switch to Ardour. This is only ONE need, I have other needs ... I also produce short films shot in DV. I need to record voices with good quality. > I've also tested the M-Audio MobilePre, and it also seemed to work > well. It has > mixer controls and knobs on the box, which is kind of confusing. I > haven't tested > it a lot though. There's some info about needing to load firmware to > the MobilePre, > but I didn't need to do that. I think they come in different versions > without > changing the name. But there is a firmware loader for it if it's > needed, but > if they keep changing it without letting people know about it, I > wouldn't > bet on buying one without testing it first. > Th M-audio Pre is a suitable solution. I was wondering about the new TASCAM US-122L. It is very cheap (159 €) and quite popular. Do you think it is supported by Alsa? More generaly, are there established standards in audio? What are theses acronyms: ASIO, ASIO2, GSIF2, WDM, CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, kernel streaming, etc... I will create a page on the unofficial Alsa wiki. > Well, a USB audio interface hardly qualifies as a sound card, either. > There are quite a few USB and Firewire interfaces that have preamps > with XLR inputs, largely because that's what microphones (in a > broadcast > or recording context) use. > > Finding such a device that works with Linux could be a challenge > though. > I got the impression from a quick look at the M-Audio web site that > most of their USB devices listed on the ALSA matrix have been > discontinued. Is a Firewire device with jackd and libfreebob not > an option? If there is a cheap (< 200€) Firewire card with two XLR entries, please let me know. I am interested. Kind regards, Jean-Michel Pouré ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
