New to Home Recording

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Hello everyone. I was just wondering if anyone could help me with a question that I have. Alright well, I have been using Cubase SX, my soundcard, and a small microphone hooked directly into my computer for recording. My question is, is there any way I can use a better microphone hooked into my soundcard without a mixer or preamp?
 
if your using a on board sound card. they suffer from lots of problems.
noise and latency being two probs.
if you want a clean recording chain i recommend a mic with 3 pin xlr (eg..cad gxl or shure ) into a cheap yamaha mg mixer. and the mixer feeding say a low latency pci sound card like a delta fitted in your pc. peace.
 
yes that is the yamaha mixer. a lot of people on here love them.
ive got to be frank on audigy. maybe yours will work ok,
but i would never have one. except for midi work.
but give it a go and see if it behaves well in your system.
i'm not trying to be purposely negative. search on this board and other recording forums and in google , and youll see a lot of problems.
they were really designed as gamer cards rather than proper serious recording cards. i'm a computer engr with a studio. if you post your computer confign i'll comment further. NOTE...ideally you need a 1ghz plus processor, and 512 ram and good fast hard drives.
to get the best out of sx you should really consider a decent recording
chain. peace.
 
Here is my DXDIAG.

If you need any other information just ask.
And how would I hook the mixer up to my soundcard?
What soundcard would you suggest for home recording?
 
for hooking up. do you want to record lots of tracks at once to seperate pc tracks or one track at a time ??. then i can recommend .
 
i looked up your dxdiag. great system. you can do anything with it.
suggest you have two drives. one for windows, one for your tracks. ON DIFFERENT CHANNELS. great system.peace.
 
Okay, I dont know what any of that means. Did you read my questions?
For recording, I've always recorded one track at a time.
 
take inserts from mg mixer to audigy sound card LINE in, peace.
or use mg stereo outs.
music123.com and zzounds.com have lots of sound cards like
deltas for example. peace.
 
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