El 08/08/13 17:50, Charles Z Henry escribió:
Hi Mario
The number one reason for having an external sound card is noise
isolation. The card's proximity to the power supply and motherboard
are bad for EM noise. Also, a computer power supply and a good audio
power supply for recording have much the same relationship--there's
more noise in switching electronics.
Next, there's the size constraints. You'd have a hard time adding all
the connectors for a large number of channels on a card which plugs in
to your PCI(e) slots.
It's ok, I have a notebook: 1 plug out, 1 plug in.
Third: there's not as great a need for bandwidth for audio as there
is with video. Video cards need all that PCI(e) bandwidth. Audio
doesn't. It's a relatively small amount of data. Of course--I think
USB and firewire really don't have enough bandwidth for good
scalability, but that's another discussion.
But... what are you doing with it? You have different requirements
for recording and for live sound. Live sound: just do it up. No one
will likely notice.
Live sound is my purpose. Mic-in looping-station and multieffects system
(following the steps of Beardyman and his Beardytron_5000). But, sorry
about not understanding your expresion (english is not my native
language).... What do you mean with "just do it up, no one will likely
notice"? Should I buy it or no one will notice the difference? I think
you mean I should...
If you're planning on recording something on just 2 channels on the
built-in sound card, keep in mind that your dynamic range will be
pretty bad, even if you get a good pre-amp in the middle to take the
most advantage of your range. You'd much rather have an external
sound card with some adjustable analog pre-amps in the box.
About the soundcard I post, the Encore 7.1 ENMAB-8CM
(http://www.encore-usa.com/ar/support/ENMAB-8CM)... it's really a china
generic useless card... or it's good for starting? It has no analog pot.
Chuck
Thanks so much for your time.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Mario Mey <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm using my integrated soundcard:
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00
Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40).
I know that Pd is processing on CPU and I don't need more than 2
inputs and 2 outputs channels. So... I "think" that there's no
need to buy an external one.
Is there any benefit of using one?
I know that this USB soundcard is not a very good one... but maybe
it's good for my economy. What's your opinion?
http://www.encore-usa.com/ar/support/ENMAB-8CM
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