Which Creative soundcard

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Having just fried my SB16 by plugging my guitar amp, with the distortion circuit on, into the line in before turning on the amp to check the volume, I find myself in the market for another soundcard.

My question is this, having a limited budget and already having decided to go with a Creative product, would it be stupid to buy one of the used Live Platinum cards that are available on ebay so that I could have the front connection panel? Is it worth the risk? Has anyone else tried it? Is thier someone selling them on ebay that I can trust? Would I be better off just going down to the local Best Buy and spending $50 on a basic SB Live 5.1?
 
I haven't had any problems with the Platinum Drive bay,yet.Check out Emu's new cards the 1212,1820 and 1820M to see what up with Creative-Emu.
 
Stevebol said:
I haven't had any problems with the Platinum Drive bay,yet.Check out Emu's new cards the 1212,1820 and 1820M to see what up with Creative-Emu.
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Shit! Never even heard of E-MU! When did Creative start this whole professional audio E-MU soundcard line??????
 
You can get a REAL 24-bit card for $99 or so if you look around.

Dont sell yourself short by getting a gamer card.
 
Having just fried my SB16 by plugging my guitar amp, with the distortion circuit on, into the line in before turning on the amp to check the volume...
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EEEEEEK! I hope you don't mean that you plug the amp's speaker output into the Line In. Of course you will fry it.

When did Creative start this whole professional audio E-MU soundcard line??????
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About five or six years ago...

Dont sell yourself short by getting a gamer card.
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Oh come one, it's a perfectly reasonable card to use to make demo recordings and learn the recording ropes...
 
Creative Labs owns Emu.Emu has discontinued everything and will be making only soundcards in the future.I assume Creative will continue with their line of gamer cards(Audigy).It seems to me they want to be the leader in soundcards in the future.
 
Refurbished Audigy Platinum

How about one of these for $79.99? It has the drive bay inputs. Can I hook a guitar or amp to one of those? They have gain control, right?
 
SB sound cards suck for everything.

They are documented busmastering hogs, the drivers have been notorious for years, and the web site drivers never install correctly.

Other than lame hardware, shitty drivers, and poor sound, the SB cards are fine.

For somebody else.

:D

I use Turtle Beach Santa Cruz cards in all the machines I build for business (non-recording) clients who require sound. The drivers are very stable, and the sound is good.
 
AlChuck said:
Oh come one, it's a perfectly reasonable card to use to make demo recordings and learn the recording ropes...
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And don't forget the MIDI features... :)
 
MOre opinons on this cards...PLease

Stevebol said:
I haven't had any problems with the Platinum Drive bay,yet.Check out Emu's new cards the 1212,1820 and 1820M to see what up with Creative-Emu.
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Hi, Guys...

I'm intrested on the 1820 card...How's EMU's support ???

10.Q
 
To all those Creative haters -

How many of you have actually used a creative card, not counting your old sblive from 5 years ago?
 
dmbpettit said:
To all those Creative haters -

How many of you have actually used a creative card, not counting your old sblive from 5 years ago?
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What does it matter? You going to contest what everybody agrees on here about Creative blatently lying about hardware capabilities? You gonna actually tell me they have good support for their product?

Puh-lease...
 
Beginner, I would recommend buying a more professional grade audio recording card than the Creative cards if you are interested in getting into some serious multitrack recording . However, if you were using just a computer and SB16, and it failed, anything would be an upgrade from it for you, even a $30 SB Live value card....
And folks, he will enjoy a better sound and less latency issues than he had with the SB16. How do I Know? I went the same route he did. I learned how use my computer to record on the AC97 chip then to the SB16. I began learning how to multitrack on a $33 SB Live. I use an Maudio card now and the fidelity is much greater with it than I ever had with the sb16 or the Live. But, that does not mean that the Live card sounded bad...or was not worthy as a very low budget tool while learning. And yes James , the midi implemetation and the onboard synth are outstanding for money, again on an average of 30 to $33 for a Live card. Turtle Beach cards are good too, you just may not find them at that kind of price.
 
just use the soundblaster and get a preamp.

focus on learning the ropes before focusing too much on gear.
 
buy a sblive at newegg.com. it's only like 35 bucks there.

even if you outgrow it's recording capabilities, you still have a nice soundcard for movies, etc.

the next step up is like the audiophile, and it's 140.
 
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Shit! Never even heard of E-MU! When did Creative start this whole professional audio E-MU soundcard line??????
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EMU has been around since at least the early 80's in fact in 1981 the original 'Emulator I' was released , in 84' the 'Emulator II' was the thing to have, by the way 'Emulators' are sampling keyboards, so they've been doing digital (hardware) recording for a very long time, then (i think) were bought by Ensoniq (another sampling pioneer, by the way both Emu and Ensoniq were American companies), then they were bought by Creative, I'm not sure how they are now that they are owned by Creative.
 
Actually I think it was the other way around, Emu bought Ensoniq...

The Emulator sampler seems to be available as a software-only product now. They still sell various models of the Proteus and some keyboards, and it looks like they are selling a new line of sound cards -- I wonder if they are just gussied-up SB Audigys like the old EMU APS card was a slightly-enhanced SB Live?
 
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