On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:51 PM, James Harrison <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a cheap (sub-£150) > sound card, ideally USB, which just has two inputs (optionally two > outputs) on XLRs (or jacks), balanced, with the ability to handle > pro-level or consumer-level input, no gain or silly nonsense, just a > really straightforward rugged ADC (optionally a DAC) with an input level > select switch (+8), maybe some little screwdriver-operated gain pots? > Would something like a used zoom h4 work for you? USB. XLR inputs. Input gains have low medium and high settings. Manual can be found here: http://www.zoom.co.jp/downloads/h4/software/ Probably overkill but I have enjoyed mine and see them on ebay used in your price range. drew > > Just hunting around for cards for a streaming encoder and I simply can't > find anything close to this - everything's got big friendly gain knobs > or the connectivity sucks or it's absurdly expensive. I'm pretty sure > there must be something out there like this, I'm just not looking in the > right places. ASI cards are all too expensive for us, even the cheap ones. > > Any experience on what cards you've gone for in this situation? (It's > being fed by a Sonifex DA6G distribution amplifier - the PC sound card > we're using presently is turned right down and it's still clipping, as > to be expected I suppose...) > > (USB preferred because the box is a half-height chassis, and USB is a > bit more versatile, but I'd be interested in anything - can always > rehouse the box...) > > -- > Cheers, > James Harrison > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > -- http://freemusicpush.blogspot.com/
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