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Sound card help [message #14417] Tue, 11 September 2007 14:59 Go to next message
Crystal is currently offline Crystal
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My sound card is shot (stock AC97 I think) therefore I need a replacement. I would like a pretty cheap card with good sound. Does anyone have a suggestion?
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Re: Sound card help [message #14419 is a reply to message #14417 ] Wed, 12 September 2007 09:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline Wayne Parham
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I've always had good luck with boards from Creative Sounds.
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Re: Sound card help [message #14425 is a reply to message #14419 ] Thu, 13 September 2007 12:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gilipsie is currently offline Gilipsie
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What if your computer comes with a 64 bit sound card, is that good enough to record vocal on?
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Re: Sound card help [message #14427 is a reply to message #14425 ] Thu, 13 September 2007 12:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline Wayne Parham
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If you're just looking for voice quality, almost anything will do. It's when you're trying to capture high fidelity that quality counts.
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Re: Sound card help [message #14434 is a reply to message #14427 ] Mon, 17 September 2007 12:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
willyable is currently offline willyable
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high fidelity consists of what exactly?
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Re: Sound card help [message #14438 is a reply to message #14434 ] Mon, 17 September 2007 17:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline Wayne Parham
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High fidelity is high quality. High fidelity systems are capable of covering the full audio bandwidth with low distortion, high dynamic range and low noise. In the context of digital audio, it would have to do with accuracy and resolution, both sampling rate and bit width. It would also require algorithms that don't degrade the digital signal digitized data. Where artifacts are generated as a consequential byproduct, i.e. things like aliasing, high fidelity equipment will deal with them in an effective matter.
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Re: Sound card help [message #14440 is a reply to message #14438 ] Tue, 25 September 2007 12:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gilipsie is currently offline Gilipsie
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Is there any way for you to actually use a software that would clean up your recording if you don't have a great soundcard.
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Re: Sound card help [message #14442 is a reply to message #14440 ] Wed, 26 September 2007 08:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline Wayne Parham
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Garbage in, garbage out. You can probably massage an audio file with post processing to clean it up some, but if the source is bad, you're polishing a turd.
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Re: Sound card help [message #14443 is a reply to message #14442 ] Wed, 26 September 2007 12:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
sacback is currently offline sacback
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Lol now that was funny. But very realistic.

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Re: Sound card help [message #14446 is a reply to message #14442 ] Thu, 04 October 2007 13:32 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Gilipsie is currently offline Gilipsie
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Gotcha, that is something that I'm not trying to do.

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