need good link to explanation of the I/O

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i'm going to buy a audiophile2496 but want an explanation of what delta 4x4,6x6,etc. means. and do i need 4 in 4 out when i will be recording guitar and vocals and later overdubbing the rest. i will be also be dubbing cassette's to cd's.

basically,what is 4 in and 4 out?
any link to a tutorial would be appreciated, thanx
 
Four in means the card has the capability to record four separate mono tracks to the HD. Four out means the capability of outputting 4 separate mono tracks or mixes of virtual tracks all stored on the HD.
4 x 4 usually means that the card can record four while playing back four.
You don't *need* 4 x 4 for what you want to do, but as Slackmaster2K has pointed out many times, the extra inputs come in handy! Suppose you wanted to stereo mic your guitar and add a track from a pickup through a POD while recording a vocal through another mic. That's 4 right there.
 
thanks drstawl, pretty much what i was lookin for.i guess down the road i would want to experiment more with the extra inputs.
i'm from the old 4track cassette days so i want clean recordings without going 24 track crazy. i still want it fancy though.
 
I get 4 simultaneous tracks out of my Audiophile by going 2 thru the S/PDIF and 2 thru the RCA analog inputs...
 
Gidge said:
I get 4 simultaneous tracks out of my Audiophile by going 2 thru the S/PDIF and 2 thru the RCA analog inputs...
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really? i suppose i could do that to. what OS are you using? i have win2k. it looks from the specs that it will work with it. if i ran my two line outs from my berringher 8 channel mixer, i would plug them into the two rca inputs of the card.

would this enable me to put two seperate tracks on my n-track multitracking software, simultaneously?

ps:any latency problems?
 
im using Windoze98, but no reason it shouldnt work for 2K....of course, your sources going into the S/PDIF have to be coming from a S/PDIF equipped piece of equipment, in my case, a j-station....i use n-track and use it to record 4 separate tracks at once...i set it up to record a stereo track,two separate tracks from the analog input, and the same for the S/PDIF......if by latency you mean lag between tracks, none whatsoever.....
 
what is a j-station? and by latency yes, from what you say but also monitering the playback while overdubbing.is there a slight delay in that.or what i call, latency
 
Right on Gidge!

That's why cards like Gina are rated 4 x 10, despite having only 2 analog ins and 8 analog outs; it also has 2 in and 2 out S/PDIF.

jwgeetar: where's your S/PDIF coming from? The choice of which input to route through the digital side and which through the analog side will depend on which converters sound better.

The J-station is another manufacturers version of a POD. If you want digital output you've gotta get the POD pro, though... :(
 
the latency is very low on the Audiophile...almost nonexistant......

J-Station is what I run my guitar thru....it has stereo effects so i record the 2 tracks separate...at the same time i have a sm57 and Marshall mxlv67 going into a Delta DMP2 preamp into the analog inputs.......
 
oh boy, i'm caught with my pants down here. ahh,s/pdf--is that a digital source? i just have a analog mixer i would be outputing from. can i use these s/pdf inputs depending on the converter's?
the converts must be in the soundcard it sounds like.
 
ok, now i'm checking out the terratec cards. they show to be a great buy with the EWS88D with 10-I/O's at $199. or the 4-I/O model for $169. got an opinion on these?
 
good review. i am learning these cards as i go.

1-audiophile2496-- unbalanced imputs,hmmm could deal with it i guess.
2-the echo's--balanced inputs, no win2k drivers--yet
3-terratec--looks ok but havent' seen many owning these
 
If you can keep cable runs short balanced will definitely not be an issue.....driver support far superior to Echo......
 
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