Brand spankin new at all of this...help needed!

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Hey yall,

I'm just getting ready to get into recording (using my computer) and I was wondering what yall knew or thought about either of these two products:
Product 1

and

Product 2

I have a laptop so I would really have to somehow upgrade my sound card situation. Thanks so much and let me know!

- Lex
 
Either one of those would work fine. It might help if you told us a little more about what you want to record and what software you want to use....
 
Well, I already have cooledit and I reckon i'd just use whatever software came with the hardware. I'd like to record bluegrass (mainly higher range male vocals and low-midrange female vocals and acoustic instruments) and southern gospel/country type instrumentation (electric bass, fiddle, electric guitar [clean or VERY little overdrive], maybe a small drum kit). I'd ideally like to record any vocals at all regardless of the vocal range. I basically want to start out with one of those two products and a decent catch-all condenser mic and begin to make semi-pro sounding recordings off of my laptop for as little startup cost as possible. Is this a do-able goal?
 
I depends on how many mics you need running at one time. If you are only recording one or two instruments/vocals at a time, then you should be ok. If you get into micing a drum kit with 3,4 or 5 mics, then you'll need some additional gear. Don't forget the 48V phantom power. If your laptop has firewire, then look to those interfaces. Personally, I would not buy an interface that did not have at least 4 XLR inputs with phantom power for your situation, like the Tascam FW1082 or Mackie 400, etc. With 4 condensers, you could easily record a bluegrass jam session. But if you are just doing one track at a time, then you should be able to get by with the interfaces you mentioned.
 
Right, i would definitely only be doing one or two tracks at a time. I was just wondering about the quality of the two products i linked to. Also, the Lexicon has a monitor control that the m-audio does not seem to have (Monitor Mix: Direct - Playback). would this be a big problem?
 
I like the Lexicon unit better, just looking at the specs, but haven't heard either. Probably not much diff in this price range. The Lex unit comes with more usable software I think. I would also go with the Lex unit for the 24-bit encoding over the 16-bit of the Maudio. 24-bit gives you more leway for digital processing.
 
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