sound card under $100 $150

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I have been reading these threads lately, trying to figure out which card I should buy. It is a bit overwhelming to say the least. I am a bass player, and simply want to jam, record and have some fun. I'm not making demos or anything, just want to put some ideas on disk, cut and paste, and play back with quality sound. I have Fruity Loops, sonar, and want to I would like to upgrade from a vibra 128 card. What should upgrade to?
Audiophile
Santa Cruz
SoundBlaster
Ensoniq
???

Thanks for any advice,
Trev
 
Audiophile is now 195$ brand new so I'm sure you can find a used one at 150$

Thierry
 
Thanks for the advice. I will get one soon. One thing though, I read on another thread that this card needs to be used in tandem with the sb live card if one wishes to use midi. I am not a midi user so it should not matter. Am I on the right track?

Thanks,
Trevor
 
ensoniq audio pci

on ebay sometimes you find a used ensoniq audio pci card cheap for 10 - 25 bucks. pretty clean. noise floor is lower than a lot of mics and good drivers with 98. sopmething a bit more is the hoontech dsp 24 24 bit card. i think they are 99 bucks at
tracertek.com. or of course the nice audiophile or echo mia that are popular. i think also there is the maudio revolution around 100 bucks.
 
your on the right track....just dont try using audiophile with windows ME.....thank god I'm 23 cause if i was 55 i woulda had a stroke and died cause that thing pissed me off so much
 
Re: ensoniq audio pci

manning1 said:
on ebay sometimes you find a used ensoniq audio pci card cheap for 10 - 25 bucks. pretty clean. noise floor is lower than a lot of mics and good drivers with 98. sopmething a bit more is the hoontech dsp 24 24 bit card. i think they are 99 bucks at
tracertek.com. or of course the nice audiophile or echo mia that are popular. i think also there is the maudio revolution around 100 bucks.
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For the price, and for what I am using it for, would you recommend the ensoniq as a low-cost entry level card? Fasoft (n-track) recommended this one too, which suprises me because of the cost.

trevor
 
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if your just mucking around with ideas, yes the ensoniq is fine.
ive known people even do high quality demoes with them.
a tip , you can really do well with it IF you do minor noise reduction using cool edit 96. probably if your micing a guitar amp, the noise from that will mask any ensoniq noise.
on pcavtech.com if i remember is a sound card comparison table.
to put things in perspective the ensoniq pci sound card has a lower noise floor from what ive been told than some of the older
2 inch multitrack tape machines. but to be fair to the hoontech and above your probably getting more accurate convertors than on the ensoniq. i use powertracks multitrack software and magix audio studio. yes n track is good as well. in fact its all good these days. if you want free noise reduction and effects for something different try out audacity. also golwave.com has a noise reduction algorithm built into its editor. tracertek.com have interesting audio restoration packages if you ever need them that i find quite interesting. if you want to muck around with drum beats etc
try pcdrummer.com. theres also tons of drum pattern creation software on the internet. just do a google.com search.
my wife just bought me this ejay samples collection of 3500
samples from a barfain bin for 10 bucks, might be worth checking out for interesting bass and drum samples/loops.
 
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