Gadget Labs

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Eventhough their out of business, is anyone using a card made by this company, what model and how good is your recording quality?
 
I am using a Gadget Labs Wave 824 and it is great. I have a very new homebuilt P4 1.7gHz running W2K and N-track. I'm thinking about getting a second. I have a 424 (96kHz Version) that i am willing to sell if you are interested. The 824 can't get that high of sampling rate, but it has more tracks.

Ian
 
I have a Gadget Labs Wave 4/24 also, and it is a phenominal card for what it does. My problem is I just bought a new computer and the 4/24 is an ISA slot card and will not fit in my new Compaq. So I have to buy a new PCI slot card. But as far as gadget Labs quality goes, as far as I'm concerned, they're top of the line. bOb
 
Also using a Wave 824 card, with Cakewalk 9 under Windows 98. The card has been great, no problems. The big bummer is there are no drivers for Win2000 or XP, which means no upgrading to Sonar (which doesn't like Win98). But so far I am able to do everything I want so I expect I'll have this rig for awhile.
 
There are drivers that work with W2K. I've been using a 824 with w2k for quite a while with quite a bit of success. Look on their website, they still have some drivers up

Ian
 
Ian - I have looked at their site, plus looked through about 10,000 emails from the Yahoo Gadget Labs group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gadgetlabs/ ) The near universal opinion seems to be that the card can be set up under Win 2000 but then it experiances too much latency to be useful. This seems particularly true with people trying to use Sonar. Windows XP seems to be a complete wash.

I would be very interested to hear about your setup, and what recording software you are using, because I would love to move up to Win 2000 if possible.
 
Here's my setup:

Hardware:
P4 1.7 Ghz
1/2 Gig RAM
Intel P4 MOBO (the one w/o onboard ethernet but w/onboard sound-disabled)
Kingston Ethernet card (simple, nothing fancy)
Disabled USB
40gig Maxtor 7200 RPM drive (apps, os, and files-for now)
GL Wave 824 w/Digital I/O
Cheapo PCI Video Card
Creative CDR
Standard 52x CD-Drive
I think that is it for Hardware, except for mouse/kybd

Software:
N-Track v3.0
IE 5.0
Various Tested Plugins (by tested I mean I've made sure they don't screw up my system)
Some soundcard testing program (not used often)
Acrobat
Paint Shop Pro

I think that's it for Software

Well,
not too complicated, very bare bones system. i will soon upgrade to either: dual monitor, second GL card, second hard drive, or a good editing program.
I have done quite a bit of 2-3 track recording with nor problems at all. I have not done any 8 track as of yet although i will be soon. No problems in mixing a 20 or so track song with multiple effects.

Hope this helps,
Ian
 
I think the moral of the story is: if using a Gadget Labs card in Windows 2000, use N-Track.
 
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