lately I've read various forums on the subject of audio interfaces.
What I often found was statements like : "it has great converters..." or, " it has much better preamps.." and so on.
How does somebody knows if some interface has great converters?
What is the criteria for better preamps?
As I understand, the new generation interfaces should not have problems such as latency or noise, but I don't really know.
My audio-interface is an old one, and back in time those were the only real problems, and of course drivers conflicts.
What interests me is how somebody can tell these days that some interface has problems?
Before was easy: you hear some hiss, the sound noticeably late, computer freezes, blues screens, black screens etc.
I assume that interface production has advanced, and even the cheap one works much better now than some 10 years old interface.
Common problems are overcome, software is getting better and so on
But people are still in discussion which one is better, and it seems that they know what they are talking about, so I wonder:
Does one trust his ears (so he can hear the noise or latency) or the sound itself is ok, but he knows that something isn't perfect because some software is showing some deviations from the expected parameters ?
To be more simple
Here is my problem with my interface, and it can be heard whenever I touch the guitar strings:
Noise by Gillette Wilkinson | Free Listening on SoundCloud
And here is the problem I saw recently
YouTube
so I' m just wondering if I went crazy
What I often found was statements like : "it has great converters..." or, " it has much better preamps.." and so on.
How does somebody knows if some interface has great converters?
What is the criteria for better preamps?
As I understand, the new generation interfaces should not have problems such as latency or noise, but I don't really know.
My audio-interface is an old one, and back in time those were the only real problems, and of course drivers conflicts.
What interests me is how somebody can tell these days that some interface has problems?
Before was easy: you hear some hiss, the sound noticeably late, computer freezes, blues screens, black screens etc.
I assume that interface production has advanced, and even the cheap one works much better now than some 10 years old interface.
Common problems are overcome, software is getting better and so on
But people are still in discussion which one is better, and it seems that they know what they are talking about, so I wonder:
Does one trust his ears (so he can hear the noise or latency) or the sound itself is ok, but he knows that something isn't perfect because some software is showing some deviations from the expected parameters ?
To be more simple
Here is my problem with my interface, and it can be heard whenever I touch the guitar strings:
Noise by Gillette Wilkinson | Free Listening on SoundCloud
And here is the problem I saw recently
YouTube
so I' m just wondering if I went crazy