> I found with my Delta 44 card (which is great) that i couldn't quite get > high enough levels recording guitar without some kind of pre-amp. > mics definitely need pre-amping. Getting a mixer was my solution; its > got mic pre-amps built in and there's plenty of gain available. Good motivation for me to get a mixer. Cool. :) I secretly want a mixer, though won't get one if it is truly unnecessary. Micing guitars and needing pre-amp, plus the availability of several channels (stereo tracks) for micing - as I continue to expand my microphone collection - is sounding like a mixer is a good idea. > > It seems like people are just using the ones > > in the programs (like in Ardour). > > I use the mixer in Ardour to mix the playback of recorded material. > I use my desk mixer to monitor the playback from Ardour and the sounds > as they are recorded. there is a latency advantage here, too. > You don't have to make the software do _all_ the work! That sounds like exactly what I'd like to do. :) > As R.Wolff already pointed out, yes it does. Or rather, that's what it > is, mostly. > If you get one of these look for the "envy24control" soundcard software. > ( its in the alsa-tools-gui package in debian). Thank you for that info! I didn't know about the "envy24control", and it looks like it's compatible with the chipset "ice1712" in the Delta 1010LT. It looks like it's a very helpful (and necessary) utility. > hope this was some help. Best wishes, G. It does help, thank you. :) Sean _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
