I need enlightenment

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Chris Fallen

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Hmm. Okay. So I post a thread about wanting to start a new studio and all of this grand stuff, and I find a nice big box and sound card (DSP2000 C-Port) that I want and all that jazz, and then I tell my friend about it.

He writes back and lets me know that buying a normal soundcard with inputs, and hooking up my four track through this, will do the exact same thing just with fewer inputs.

What's the point of going out and spending 400 buck on something like an omni studio or a DSP2000 C-Port when all it offers is more inputs, etc.? He's not a sound guy whatsoever, so I wanted to bring this to all of you and find out about it before I go off and listen to him.

Help. :)

Christopher
 
the preamps on a 4 track suck and the converters on a "normal" soundcard suck.....

the preamps and converters on the Omni studio are pretty damn awesome.......
 
Gidge is giving you the straight scoop. Garden variety sound card converters suck pond water. Higher noise floor and way less than stellar conversion. Another thing to watch out for with the lesser sound cards is some of them aren't full duplex, meaning you can't monitor tracks you've already recorded while overdubbing additional tracks.
 
Okay, I'm dumb like this. What do the converters do for you?

Christopher
 
Analog to digital converter. It converts the incoming analog audio signal to ones and zeros for storage (read recording). High quality, low jitter conversion is crucial to good audio reproduction.
 
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