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In Reply to: How good are PC's for recording in a home studio? posted by Dan on March 29, 2004 at 06:09:31:
normally pretty good. The garden variety sound card doesn't have swell mic preamps or phantom powering of microphones or balanced transformer coupled inputs. Most pc cards inputs are unbalanced 5-10K input that are staight into a solid state LSI chip op-amp. If this opamp is a Fet input op-amp the input impedance can be very high(1M). The capacitance/resistance reactance occuring at a high impedance limits cable runs. If you want to use compfortable cable runs to the mics, this demands balanced inputs which translates to buying mic input transformers for the unbalanced inputs. One should use not much more than 10' of mic cable with unbalanced inputs. You also get lower noise with balanced, transformer coupled inputs and the option of using hundreds of feet of mic cable. Not that you should! Don't use any more cable than is necessary for your situation. Some of the more expensive PC cards have balanced inputs and phantom powering of condenser mics. The mark of quality in a recording is generally at the head. The better the mic the better the recording. Look at the Ego Systems Waveterminal 192M or the RME Hammerfall PC sound cards.
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- Depends greatly on the soundcard in the PC.... - grhughes 08:05:28 03/29/04 (0)
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