whats the best card for the job

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to any one with the knowlege. i am currently in a 5 peice band and wish to do some recording of the band. there is drums, gutar, vocals, bass, mouth organ. we have a very limeted budget but could strech to around £200. ive got soundblaster audurge, i say that as i think it aint cutting the mustard. what are peoples recomendations on this. am running a amd 1900 150ghz, 1gb ram, 60g hard disc.
 
how many tracks do you want to be able to record at a time? what gear do you currently have that you will be using with the new card?
 
with £200 of a budget your best bet would be go hire a day in a real studio. Failing that you could keep an eye out on ebay for a used 8 track recorder of some sort.

A soundblaster isn't designed for recording. For drums alone you're gonna need a bare minimum of 4 inputs. That's Kick, snare and stereo overheads.

Use the search feature and see what other people are using around here but don't be startled when you realise your £200 isn't going to get you very far. I think and AMD 1900 would struggle to record 4 tracks at the same time at 24bit/44.1Khz onto the same hard drive that's running your operating system, recording software and anything else you may have running on there.

Just my opinion, YMMV
 
TravisinFlorida said:
how many tracks do you want to be able to record at a time? what gear do you currently have that you will be using with the new card?
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i could do with about 8 tracks. equipment wise we have a 16 chanel mixer, but dont realy want to mix down to 2 chanels. bit limited i know. as for spending money in a studio, yes they have the equipment but one day is not enough. if we have are own basic setup we can spen as much time as we need. i could up grade my pc to a bigger prosseser and get an external drive as this is in my own bugget not the bands. the soundcard is out of the bands money.

thanks for your help in this matter so far.
 
another thought was to get an adat and then conect that to the pc via spdif or optcal. but not realy reserched that yet. :confused:
 
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