I use M-Audio They have a great series of cards that work, the half height is a handicap.
I use Audiophile 2496 and yes it's unbalanced but it has digital as well. Delta 44 is OK too , have one install with that. adjust with alsamixer If the audio feed is too high a simple pad will solve the problem. "H" lets you go from balanced 600 ohm to 3k or so for the rca inputs. There are a zillion of these being sold second hand by people who purchased a studio package and then found that it did not do what they expected. I am currently getting them for about $US70. Regards Robert On 25/03/2012 14:51, James Harrison 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? > > 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...) > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
