[TriLUG] Slightly OT: Audio Digitizing Hardware Question

[Ken MacKenzie]

A/D converters are much better on outboard gear when compared to consumer
computers.

Firewire is best, used to own a Presonus firepod, is linux compatible with
Jack and FFADO.  Worked great.

I currently own an ART Usb Dual Pre.  It stinks, avoid.

If you only need 2 channel then USB will be easy enough to find just google
around enough to confirm it has linux support.  Presonus and Alesis seem to
be pretty good about that.

Anything USB 1 that is standards compliant (would not need a driver on
other OSs) should work out the box on linux.

It is USB 2+ that things start to get wonky with the manufacturers
implementations.

One other tip.  If you can find something that can support an audio quality
of 20 bit and 48 khz sampling rate or better.

Ken

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com>
wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> I'm starting at a bit lower level than that.  I've run some searches on
> "Audio digitizing hardware for laptops" and "Analog to digital
> converters for laptops" and the results are all over the place.  Can you
> give me some particulars about which products you used?
>
> A mac user I know recommended the Apogee Duet, which was helpful, but it
> turns out to be Mac only.  It also costs $600 retail, kind of steep for
> where I am in this project.  It's called a "Professional Stereo Audio
> Interface".  Is that generic terminology?
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Scott
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