newbie sound card advice...HELP!

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hi all,

right, this is my first attempt at home recording (apart from years ago with teac 144 and 244's !) and i need some advice already!

I've just put cubase VST/24 on my laptop and need to hook it up with a soundcard / external hub.

i wanted do use the laptop as i'll need to take it around the house in order to record my roland td8 (upstairs) acoustic guitar (i can do that anywhere!) and my acoustic kit (garage!)...SO i'm stuck with the laptop.

its new and spec wise is good:

its a dell, 140 GB hard drive, 2 GB ram, processor intel celeron 550 @ 2.00 GHZ (never understand the processor bit!)

BUT i'm getting confused about which external hub to use.....the input i guess i'll be using are the USB's ???

its also windows VISTA! (aaarrghhh)

basically i'll be using:

acoustic guitars via an SM58
roland td8 kit via midi
acousitic drums via various SM58's

thats about it really!!

any thoughts are greatly appreciated...si
 
brilliant stuff!

am half way thru your article...and yes my head is sideways!

question...is this (attached) a firewire connection for my laptop??? its l-top for me for a while at least, so IF it is then hey i'm way to go

si

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anyone?...am a bit green on these things i'm afraid!!

cheers, si
 
The image you posted is of a firewire port. You can plug firewire devices that are 1394 compatible into it.
 
Waffleness said:
The image you posted is of a firewire port. You can plug firewire devices that are 1394 compatible into it.
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cheers mate! .. now i got find an external soundcard thats compatable with cubase and windows vista!! AND has the right firewire connector...

ta...si
 
Not really!
For a start, that's a PCI soundcard, not a firewire one :) It has a firewire port on it, but that's for connecting firewire devices to the computer (via a chipset on the card), not the other way round.
Secondly, I would stick away from any 'Soundblaster' or consumer soundcard. You want one designed for recording.

Maybe an idea of budget so we can give some suggestions?
 
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mattr said:
Not really!
For a start, that's a PCI soundcard, not a firewire one :) It has a firewire port on it, but that's for connecting firewire devices to the computer (via a chipset on the card), not the other way round.
Secondly, I would stick away from any 'Soundblaster' or consumer soundcard. You want one designed for recording.

Maybe an idea of budget so we can give some suggestions?
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cheers mate! ...well buget, something simple for now, i'll upgrade laters, at some stage, i'd also like to record live drums (6-8 inputs at same time etc ) but thats in the future.

so for now i'm looking at 2nd hand around and up to £50 (i'm in the UK!) or more if its THE device for me etc etc ...maybe £100 ...

back from teaching (drums) later ta mate si
 
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