Soundcard & Mixer

[spaceman]

I'm buying a new PC for music production and gaming. These are the specs:

Evesham GeForce 6800 128MB DDR AGP £170.00 - I might get rid of this.
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB SATA 8MB Cache OEM £42.24
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5£129.19
Arctic Cooling Silentium Silent Midi Tower Case - 350W Seasonic Silent PSU (CA-000-AR) £60.00
Soundcard - £100.00
Floppy - £10.00
CD ROM - £10.00
Motherboard and CPU - < £200

Oh I've heard of problems between AGP and music production cards, is this true? I've heard that the MAudio Audiophile 2496 has compatability issues with certain motherboards and XP? Can u shed any light on this?

I'm tempted to get an Amd64 for the processor. Anyhow.. I want a soundcard. I want to record my guitar/keyboard and my brothers drums (Two mics for my bros drums). Soundcard could go upto £150... Also, would I need a mixer to record the sound from my keyboard to the PC? What do you recommend? A cheap one cause I've got no fkin cash left, hehehe.

Thanks,

Carl.

 

[manning1]

search under my name. for lots of tips posted over the past few months.
including power suplly , dma and many other tips. as well as budget recording software and sound cards and issues with sound cards to avoid.
also read the amd 64 prices thread in this soundcards section.
it would help to know several things.....
1. max number of tracks you expect the computer to playback.
2. max number of plug ins you anticipate.
3. max number of mics/lines you want to record to seperate tracks on the pc at the same time.
get two hard drives if you can. one small for windows. one for your tracks.
if you follow my budget software suggestions which will do great songs with the right sound convertors 512 ram will suffice.