Quote Originally Posted by strummer View Post
Thanks, Oli, waiting for Janne now
You´ve got mail, Strummer. In swedish......

You can get a cheap M-Audio interface and you might be happy with it for awhile. Two ways to go really. Either cheap stuff initially and then upgrade. Or get better stuff from start. I know a ton of people that are recording on their computers and all of them wanted better stuff after a rather short amount of time.

First thing if you want to avoid trouble, get a Mac. Vista WILL unfortunately create problems for you. XP was better. I worked on PC computers when I first built the studio I run and I even built several and I got rather good at messing about with PC´s. But it just didn´t work in the long run. Took way to much time to find out what the heck was wrong. I´m on Mac now and I get lots more done with less hassle. I´ve e-mailed you some tips on second hand gear. A/D - D/A converters are not nearly as good on the cheaper stuff. The RME Fireface 800 interface also has a function so that you can use it abit like a "summing mixer" (summeringsmixer). You don´t want to bounce things internally in your computer when doing mixes if you want a decent result.

There are lots of things to say about computers/soundcards/recordings. Someone wrote that it´s important that the soundcard you get has digital in/out. I couldn´t agree less. Much better to stay analog as much as possible and focus on really good D/A - A/D converters. The soundcards that I´ve recommended are good for 24 bits/192 kHz recordings and that will keep you happy for a very long time. M-Audio´s stuff has nowhere near as good converters but 96 kHz is good enough for most people. Me too. But I would not be happy with the converters.

So, according to me, you must decide if you want to think long term or short term. We are bass-players, god damn it(!!), and you´ll notice a greater difference between good and bad quality AD/DA-converters in the lower frequensies than up top. Separation and transparency. Big difference. But I shall not decide what you should get. You have to do that. And we might have different opinions and that is ok indeed. May Santa be with you!! Back to work.

Sincerely//Jan