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Recording mixes on a laptop

  • 18-03-2008 1:52pm
    #1
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭


    Just looking for some recommendations of hardware to buy here.

    At present I have my mixer hooked up to an old Audigy sound card, but am thinking of getting an external sound card for my laptop and using that instead.
    Had a quick browse on thomann.de and don't really have a clue about what is good there...

    I've ordered a DJM800, so I guess something that has a digital input would be handiest, but I also wouldn't mind something with RCA phono ins as well. (a couple of outputs would be handy too, but not essential)

    Budget is around €200 tops, preferably a USB device that doesn't require external power...

    While I'm asking the question, is there any kind of device that I could use to record directly onto it (some small HD based deelio)
    I know that I could just buy a cd writer, but I prefer having everything recorded as a wav file ready to be tweaked...


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  • #2
    sur_1_nuage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭sur_1_nuage


    You could check that out if that helps...

    http://www.ikey-audio.com/ikey.htm

    ;)


  • #3
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Ah cool, that looks like just the job!
    The Ikey plus looks a bit better (mostly due to the VU meter)

    Got ****loads of usb memory keys lying around the place, would be dead handy just being able to plug a 2GB one into that and record for a couple of hours

    /edit
    seems to get fairly mixed reviews though... Think I might be better off just going for a sound card instead :(


  • #4
    Luke! Broughan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Luke! Broughan


    i use a behringer sound card(the one that costs 35 quid on www.htfr.co.uk)

    and i use a programme called Audacity(its free off the net,and it simply captures audio from the soundcard)


    its cheap and cheerfull,but man,it actually works real well.


    Im not spending 300 quid on a soundcard yet,ill leave that for a while until im a bit more established!

    here is an image of the soundcard:

    http://www.fixya.com/Brands/Images/B/Behringer/177x150/32401205.JPG

    again Behringer,cheap n cherrfull,does the job,if you just want to give someone "an aul mix"

    in fact,i have a drum machine/synth(Korg EMX) and i make patterns on it,and route them into the laptop and by god,the sound quality is VERY good(surprizingly)

    best of luck with that!


  • #5
    DJ_Spider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,958 ✭✭✭DJ_Spider


    One of these http://www.pcdj.co.uk/shop/item.php?id=94 or these http://www.pcdj.co.uk/shop/item.php?id=39 are very good and give excellent sound. Also the facility to have more channels.


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