Re: choosing between these soundcards for laptop

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

thanx Nevyn though i forgot to mention that it needs to be half rack as i 
am looking to travel with it.Another anoying thing about a lot of these 
compact soundcards is that they dont have a master level knob in the front 
making it tedious to control,i want ot stay away from having to access the 
software and using the mouse just to do that!
Cheers
Luis

www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- On Mon, 3/9/09, Nevyn Nowhere <nevynnowhere@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Nevyn Nowhere <nevynnowhere@gmail.com>
> Subject: choosing between these soundcards for laptop
> To: "Loopers Delight" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 12:30 PM
> Don't know about the Echo, Edirol does the job, quality
> (sound and physical
> construction/design) isn't as good as MOTU or the
> preference of mine you
> left out:
> 
> the Mackie Onyx 400F.
> 
> Picked mine up brand new a couple years ago for under 500$.
>  Firewire.  10
> in and out.  4 solid nice sounding preamps with volume
> knobs.  Inserts,
> phantom power and more.  Rack card.  Physically solid,
> driver is solid,
> never has crashed or fucked up on me at all.  Also works as
> a normal mixer
> (although you have to do your routing via the software
> mixer, then it saves
> the last setting when you disconnect it, internally of
> course so that it can
> function without being hooked up to a computer).
> 
> I'm always curious why I don't hear folks talking
> about this piece of gear
> on this list, as I've never had any problem with it (it
> did have driver
> issues after first coming out that resulted in a lot of
> complaints, but
> Mackie fixed those long before I got mine, and folks
> aren't complaining any
> more!)
> 
> -nn
> happyhumans.org
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:30 AM, L.Angulo
> <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi gang,
> > I need your advice on this one my Firebox has crapped
> out and is going to
> > thake a while to get repaired since i have to send it
> to the states.
> > So i am on the hunt for another more reliable
> one,between the 300 to 600
> > price range which one would you choose between these?
> it needs to be bus
> > powered,ins and outs should be assignable,drivers
> should be stable,good
> > sounding preamps and most of all reliable.Please tell
> me your experiences
> > with them!
> >
> > EDIROL FA-66
> > MOTU Ultralite MK 3
> > ECHO AUDIOFIRE 4
> >
> > thanx for your advice
> > Luis
> >
> >
> >
> > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >