Soundcard from Music Recording?

[correia]

I'm looking to build a new computer to record music (vocal,guitar,keyboard,drums) most likely using pro-tools. Does anyone have any soundcard or general suggestions for the computer. Any help is appreciated.

[kolotoure]

Get an MBox

[ua1176]

any pro tools setup that you buy will come with some sort of hardware interface.

the Mbox won't work for drums as it has only 2 inputs.

if you want to do drums, i would buy a 002 rack. 4 mic preamps on board...buy a 4-channel mackie onyx for 4 more. and you can do drums with 8 inputs.

jon

[bobhalford]

I've got the M-Audio Delta 44. I think it came with the M-audio OmniStudio I have. Nice package.

[kolotoure]

You can rewire to have extra inputs through an MBox which is what I would do. I would also get a Triton and a Korg

[ua1176]

rewire? how do you mean?

the rewire protocol deals with syncing up different programs to each other

if you mean physically rewiring things...you will still run out of inputs. drums take a lot of microphones and the 2 inputs on the mbox aren't gonna cut it.

incidentally....a Triton *IS* a Korg.

jon

[kolotoure]

The Triton is made by Korg. I've never worked with live drums so you are probably right about the amount of inputs required.

[sightless]

I have M-audio firewire 410



Basically anything by m-audio is pretty good

[turnipmonster]

I looked at several m-audio units before getting a presonus firebox and I was shocked that m-audio is still making some of their units using usb 1.1. this really sucks as it impacts stuff like monitoring (if using effects) significantly.

I would definitely make sure whatever card you go with is either USB2.0 or firewire compatible, you really don't want a USB1.1 card.

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[astroglide]

http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/PCI/Layla3G/index.php

i lived with an audio engineer that used a layla