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We need to replace the sound card in our Adobe Audition 2.0 machine. The previous card was a LynxOne card. Any suggestions for a quality, no-frills (surround sound not needed), etc, low-cost card? Thanks.
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I've installed Echo Mia cards in "budget" installations. For a a couple of years after our ops manager suddenly died, his understudy, a college student, used a Mackie mixer, mike, Sound Forge & the Echo card in a PC to handle school closings, weather forecasts, light production, etc. from his college apartment, some 70 miles from the studio. An OK card for the price (one usually gets what one pays for something).
I've had great luck with the Card Deluxe sound cards, using Cool Edit and Adobe Auditions 2 & 3.
Great card at a reasonable price.
http://store.digitalaudio.com/merch...ode=DAL&Product_Code=CDX-01&Category_Code=CDX
Great card at a reasonable price.
http://store.digitalaudio.com/merch...ode=DAL&Product_Code=CDX-01&Category_Code=CDX
Ditto on the CardDeluxe CDX-01... An excellent card!
I'm a big fan of the Delta 44 - $200
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Delta44.html
I have had great results with this card. Plus, it has an external break-out box so you can mount it in a convenient place and you don't have somebody accidentally breaking the connectors off the card.
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Delta44.html
I have had great results with this card. Plus, it has an external break-out box so you can mount it in a convenient place and you don't have somebody accidentally breaking the connectors off the card.
I have never had anything but bad experiences with Echo products. I will never use another one.
I use Delta 44's on my streams. They have never failed. For my day to day Adobe Audition needs, though, I use a Digigram VX222.
I use Delta 44's on my streams. They have never failed. For my day to day Adobe Audition needs, though, I use a Digigram VX222.
We must be in 'Fringe'...
Parallel universes. Digigram hasn't failed me in almost 10 years.
Parallel universes. Digigram hasn't failed me in almost 10 years.
My experiance shows Echo cards don't switch sample rates smoothly at all.
DO have them running on VoxPro PCs in the studios. They work good for that since the rates don't change.
DO have them running on VoxPro PCs in the studios. They work good for that since the rates don't change.
boiseengineer said:
My experience showed me that they liked to change sample rates in the middle of playback of audio files. I had four of them. Used in different machines. All of them did it. I just threw them away, dropped in 222's and never heard another complaint. I use Digigram (by force) in AudioVault. I have a client who uses another automation system and I am also VERY fond of Audio Science cards. I bought one of those for my Air Skimmer and it has worked great. I am trying to get BE to support them, as I think they offer more features for the same money as the Digigram cards.
The Delta cards in my streaming machines have been great too. I would easily trust one of them for an Adobe machine.
chriscollins said:
You're right, Chris! My Digigram experience goes back two decades - to the PCX3. That card didn't even do PCM - only MPEG2 and WB48 (anyone remember THAT compression algorithm?). In those days you used a batch file to load the TSR drivers into memory - always an adventure if you didn't optimize the RAM first.
From then till today I've found Digigram's drivers to be like Forest Gump - you never know what you're gonna get. Most of the time they load fine but quite often than not they'll do weird things.
Never had that kind of trouble with ASI or Echo cards as long as you follow the installation instructions.
The VX222 is a good card - overpriced, but a good card.
boiseengineer said:
Care to elaborate on that? Are you trying to switch rates on the fly? I've never had an issue changing sample rates on the MiaMIDI.
SRP said:
I experienced the sample rate bug he is referring to on all of my MIA cards. You would be in Adobe Audition, playing a file and then, midway through, it would either pitch up or pitch down. That is actually the reason I switched those machines to the VX222.
I agree with you on pricing. You get more bang for your buck on Audio Science cards. The VX222 has gotten better. It is about $330 new.
ECHO actually e-mailed me back in terse terms that their cards "DID NOT SUPPORT MULTIPLE SAMPLE RATES WHEN ACCESSED BY MORE THAN ONE (player/device)" or apparently a change in sample rates in a project.
Big problem when the newsroom software and another media player were running at the same time. Like recording from a web-embedded player into the newsroom software. One or the other would take over the card and a re-boot might be necessary. Threw in some old Soundblaster cards and they are happy. Actualities & sound bite quality is good.
Big problem when the newsroom software and another media player were running at the same time. Like recording from a web-embedded player into the newsroom software. One or the other would take over the card and a re-boot might be necessary. Threw in some old Soundblaster cards and they are happy. Actualities & sound bite quality is good.
chriscollins said:
There is one particular old site I stream from sometimes, and it does this, usually dropping from sounding like a 96k down to 48k.
Most of the time, you can hear it tripping a bit as it looses sync, then it comes back in lo-fi.
If I'm lucky, it reglitches back up to full resolution within a minute.
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