On Thu, 2006-21-09 at 07:04 +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Carlo Capocasa wrote: > > Yes. > > Thank you for your reply, that gives me enough information to go on. > The purpose is to allow the students to practice, not for recording. I > shall be buying a preamp today. I don't recommend buying a preamp for a soundblaster really. External preamps are usually very good and quite pricey. You would be better off getting a decent sound card that has a decent preamp instead of putting a ferrari engine in a an old VW bug! Check out the presonus firebox, they are good cards with surprisingly good preamps for the price. The inputs on a soundblaster are really not very good and the improvement in signal from your external preamp would be wasted. Iain
