recommend me a card with 8 audio inputs

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I am looking to get a card to replace my SB Live! Platinum. Basically, I want to be able to record a choral group with guitars and some percussion, live.
If I understand it right, using Cubase 32 and a card with 8 inputs, connected via an 8 channel mixer, I ought to be able to record 8 channels of audio on the fly. RIGHT? So, why bother with ADAT? What is a good inexpensive card? Prices? ISIS? SIENA? I am all ears!
 
recommend me a card with 8 inputs

Thanks for the quick reply, Chris. Inputs could be RCA or phono 1/4". XLR would be complicated being that the mixer I will use will be borrowed from the local theatre.
This group is offering to buy me a card to record them live. I did a test having to premix 6 mikes and recording l/r into the SB Live! They liked the results, but, on my coaxing, they have come to recognize the limitation of being locked into a premix.
I use my card for home recording and have no need to record more than 2 channels at a time. So, the card they buy me should meet MY needs down the road. RCA or phono plugs work for me, XLR cables cost a fortune and without my own hardware mixer to pass through they´re virtually useless...at least for now. I have seen that some cards offer phono/xlr inputs in the same connector...an interesting option, no?
 
Delta 1010...no wait, Ardvark Q10somethingorother...hold on, Echo ?Mona? is it?...digidesign Digi001.... Put the names in a hat and go with the draw. There're all good and probably only slightly better than each other in different special categories.

Or,

you can search around this board and countless others for weeks trying to figure out just what the differences are, then a few weeks more trying to decide what's most important.

Or,

Just take the first recommendation thrown at you in this thread, which really isn't a bad idea. Now go buy a Delta 1010.

Now repeat the above process to find your "favorite" mutitracking/sequencer software!! Yeah, you'll need that too! Joy! and it's probably harder than choosing the soundcard.(unless you choose Digi001, which includes software, and it's very good too, except....)
 
M-Audio 1010LT, w/ free large-diaphragm mic and Samplitude:

$380.

www.bayviewproaudio.com, you have to ask for the mic and Samplitude (call 'em).

Cheap way to get a bunch of new goodies, and have them sound good in 24/96.

(8 connections via RCA, 2 via S/PDIF, 2 on-board preamps for home-diddlin'. beat THAT with $400!)
 
can't beat that, but after hearing some recordings yesterday from the 1010lt, i'd go with the regular 1010 it just sounds better... but samplitude and a decent se mic... i wouldn't pass up that deal. most ppl thing those mics are cheap, they're just modeled after some of the best mic, some of them actually use the same components they just don't have the name Neumann on them and stuff like that. i have a se5000, its a tad bright at times but the mic sounds great.
 
Ah, cool. I think they're peddlin' the 1010 for $599, with that se5000.

This is the se1000, btw, c9-2001. I'm not expecting too much out of it, mostly an education in how to use phantom power, shock-mounts, and where to appropriately sing into the "cage."

You know, cannon-fodder.

:D
 
The 1010lt is nice. I got mine a few days ago from Bayview. Same deal that Kelly got. The card is beutiful, though it comes with crap for software(a whole lotta demo pluggins but nowhere to use them except Samplitude, which was extra, not in the bundle). Everything sounds beutiful. I have the first 8 channels of my Mackie goin in and the second eight for mixing. BEAUTIFUL!

The mic is okay. Quite a bit muddy but I low cut twice(goin in and comin back out) and it's fine. The case it came in is really nice except for the fact that the smell gives me a headache. Now that I have had my first condensor of LD type I want more! Maybe the se5000?
 
Ooo! Them be lookin sweet! How much are those Z series mics going to be going for?
 
hokypokynose said:
Ooo! Them be lookin sweet! How much are those Z series mics going to be going for?
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i'm waiting on the price quote, i'll let you know
i'm always willing to try something new
 
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