Sound Card for quality recording

Sound Card for quality recording

[Craig Wright]

Can anyone recommend a sound card that does an exceptional job at
recording?  I've considered the turtle beach pinacle, but of course
that would require me to not use linux which is not an option.    

Is the Sound Blaster Live an acceptable alternative or is there some other
high end card out there that linux supports?  I'd be really interested to
know what anyone thinks about this.

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Re: Sound Card for quality recording

[Thomas C Sobczynski]

I have been reasonably happy with my SoundBlaster Awe64 Gold.  It is
"backwards compatible" with older, well supported SoundBlaster cards.
This one is configured as a slightly older SoundBlaster, and I have
all I want; the only functionality I'm not using seems to be WaveTable
support, but who cares?  While I too wanted a Turtle Beach card, I
could find no evidence of Linux support for any of them.

> Can anyone recommend a sound card that does an exceptional job at
> recording?  I've considered the turtle beach pinacle, but of course
> that would require me to not use linux which is not an option.    
> 
> Is the Sound Blaster Live an acceptable alternative or is there some other
> high end card out there that linux supports?  I'd be really interested to
> know what anyone thinks about this.

Re: Sound Card for quality recording

[Bill Nottingham]

Craig Wright (spiral@eece.unm.edu) said: 
> Can anyone recommend a sound card that does an exceptional job at
> recording?  I've considered the turtle beach pinacle, but of course
> that would require me to not use linux which is not an option.    
> 
> Is the Sound Blaster Live an acceptable alternative or is there some other
> high end card out there that linux supports?  I'd be really interested to
> know what anyone thinks about this.

Actually, there are some TB Pinnacle drivers (included in Linux 2.2,
see also http://www.rpi.edu/~veliaa/pinlinux.html), while there
are *not* currently drivers for the SB Live. (Creative has hired
someone to write them, but at last check they weren't planning
on open-sourcing them, and there wasn't any word on when they
would be finished.)

Bill