built-in soundcard VS external one

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:59 pm

abZ wrote:I just wanted you to explain this "whats the point of working in a 24 bit project file if your soundcard only does 16"

There are plenty of good reasons for working in 24bit when your sound card only does 16, no?

Not trying to go in circles I just wanted to clear up some confusion there.

yea it has it's points, just kinda asinine when it gets dithered before hitting your monitors

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:10 pm

Deadly Habit wrote:
abZ wrote:I just wanted you to explain this "whats the point of working in a 24 bit project file if your soundcard only does 16"

There are plenty of good reasons for working in 24bit when your sound card only does 16, no?

Not trying to go in circles I just wanted to clear up some confusion there.
yea it has it's points, just kinda asinine when it gets dithered before hitting your monitors

Ok so now the circle completes

I don't think it is asinine at all. There is a good reason why most DAW's these days process at 32 bit floating.

macc · Post by **macc** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:15 pm

There's no guarantees that it will get dithered to 16 bit AFAIK, but then again when do you EVER see a 16-bit only card these days?

Not counting the thread with the dude who just bought a SBLive 5.1 of course.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:48 am

Macc wrote:There's no guarantees that it will get dithered to 16 bit AFAIK, but then again when do you EVER see a 16-bit only card these days?

Not counting the thread with the dude who just bought a SBLive 5.1 of course.

Actually I was using a Sound Blaster up until last year. It was 24 bit.

macc · Post by **macc** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:55 am

Was it? An SBLive? I dunno... all a distant memory. I'd love to get one in and check it out against the Mytek

I remember when the Audigy came out and there was uproar cos it said it was the first 24bit soundcard from Creative. But as it turned out it recorded at 16 bit and then filled the rest with 0s

jsilver · Post by **jsilver** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:11 am

i use a realtek AC97 based chip, an internal sigmatel stac 92xx on my intel ich8 chipset with ASIO @ 512-1024 samples and unless i'm running a lot of plugins i don't really notice too many overruns, and when i do i just increase the sound buffer

dont give up on internal sound card unless you absolutely positively need to record

otherwise you can use it, i dont see why anyone thinks its shit, it can be done right

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:34 am

Macc wrote:Was it? An SBLive? I dunno... all a distant memory. I'd love to get one in and check it out against the Mytek

I remember when the Audigy came out and there was uproar cos it said it was the first 24bit soundcard from Creative. But as it turned out it recorded at 16 bit and then filled the rest with 0s

Yeah I think I had some form of the Audigy. Trust me I am not recommending anyone purchase it. Thing is when I was doing research on buying an external it seems that a lot of them handled 24bit audio in the same way. Mostly the USB 1 jobbies. There was a large audible difference between the SB and the Audio Kontrol 1 that I use now.

macc · Post by **macc** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:27 am

jsilver wrote: dont give up on internal sound card unless you absolutely positively need to record

otherwise you can use it, i dont see why anyone thinks its shit, it can be done right

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