About Aardvark Direct Pro

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I am planning to buy my first piece of equipment next month, which is Aardvark Direct Pro. Does anyone have any advise? Cause this Sound card caused me US$590.00. What I want to do is, to record guitar track,durm track, bass and vocal. Can anyone have a better plan for me. Sorry for asking this kind of question.
 
Hi, vcentral. Okay - drums, bass, guitar and vocals. How many of these do you want to record at the same time - how many channels are you going to need on your card - 2? 4? 8? The Aark Direct Pro has 4 channels, right? Will that be enough for what you want to do?
By the way, you can get a very good 8-channel card, with decent recording software thrown in, for less than $590 (Wave/824 from Gadgetlabs).
Also, is the Aark Direct Pro actually available now?
 
Well, I actually needed max. 3 input at a time. See wheather you agreed to my point of view: Why I want to but Aardvark Direct Pro, at there website, they said I can skip buying a microphone preamp, mixer and so on. Cause I don't have any extra money to spend on those thing. And this sound card/ mixer can record using 24bit/96KHz.. And the most important this card is shielded (Why I stated this is the most important fact? Because I am using SoundBlaster AWE64, and I using Cool Edit Pro to record. The noise come out is really terrible, not clean and it really sucks.)

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Actually, I am also trying to look for a cheaper method to do, such as buying a medium mixer board and record, but this only give me the mixed 8 or 4 channel L/R output, and I can edit the single track. A minidisc 4 track..... well, this one not bad, however I have one question to ask, do I need a mic. preamp.? Or other effects? Or anyone have a better idea, please let me know. I am sorry that I ask stupid questions, but please help me, this is my hard earn money. Thankyou very much.
 
Hi vcentral.
I am thinking of buying the Direct Pro also.
It sounds like it has very clean and quite mic preamps as well as a good recomendation from Dragon. Im trying very hard to stay away from an external mixer if I can and just keep it all in the computer. I will be micing live drums but I hope four mics will be enough. I think its a good way to go if you need to keep costs down. Good luck!
 
vcentral: hi. If 3 channels at one go is all you need, then I'd go with the Direct Pro (if they ever actually come out with the damn thing!). Aardvark's reputation is good, the Direct Pro's got built-in preamps (or one built-in preamp - I'd like to know which) and a software package to boot, if I'm not mistaken. This solves three problems at once: hardware (the soundcard), software, and preamps for mics. It's a really attractive package, and the only downside is they've been promising it for months now, and not actually coming up with the goods. I waited for a long time, and then got 'so tired, tired of waiting, tired of waiting for yo-o-o-u-u-u.'

That's why I asked you if they're actually selling it now. Also, surely you can get it for less than $590?
 
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