Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: >> I am looking for a cheap two channels USB audio card, with two XLR >> entries and preamp. This is for an Internet Podcast. Of course, I need >> good Alsa support. >> > > I lost hours connecting on Websites to look for information. > Can anyone help me, this would be very nice. > > Is there a single fully-supported card answering my needs? > You'd have to check, but Edirol make a couple of USB sound cards with XLR connectors. The UA-101 certainly has phantom power and it has a smaller, cheaper brother whose model number I forget. Support for the UA-101 is in the 2.6.21 kernel (http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_21) and, obviously, in recent ALSA distributions. It's very nice, but not especially cheap (Dolphin Music in the UK are selling it for €442). A possibly cheaper solution is to get a small mixer (the Behringer Xenyx 802 is nice and Google showed me one for £40). I've used the mixer with an aging SoundBlaster Live! and a Griffin iMic (which is USB) and I've had good results with both. Of course, the UA-101 is very tempting ... but I'm not likely to make good use of its microphone amplifiers. jch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
