Advice or recommendations on sound cards

i have a kt6 delta lsr my sound blaster live gamer croacks ands pops. do i need new card or different setting. and if new card ............. what?
above ms with xp 2800 (barton) , kinsgton value 512 mg, ati aiw 9600 oro, 2 wd 100gig

Please enter more tech specs, especially concerning the amperage delivered by your Power Supply Unit, (PSU). You probably have to open the case and read the sticker on the PSU box.
Ad hoc solutions:
There might be a conflict with the integrated sound card.
SB Live I know needs specific drivers for each Operativ System. Go to Creative's download page if you haven't got them already.
The PSU can't deliver.

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I have just purchased Logic Pro X and it doesn't seem to want to work with my Tascam us-122L sound card. Do i need to purchase a new one and if so, any advice on a reasonable priced one?

What OS do you have? Have you tried the latest drivers?
http://tascam.com/product/us-122l/downloads/
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Dear Experts,
I'm trying to install the latest Oracle Redhat 5.
64 bit. On a certified Asus motherboard.
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(It will be used for learning, at home. It's important to
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Other installs, sound has installed and worked fine.
I believe it's partially because the sound came directly off
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http://support.creative.com/kb/showarticle.aspx?sid=14133
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with the standard Linux drivers. I believe I have all of the drivers installed,
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or AC 97 connector, and will play music through the headphone jack.
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Almost a year later... what have you been listening too? :-)
I have to admit that I'm not an expert for "sound" under Linux. I think you may find http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page interesting. It also shows which sound cards are compatible.
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wget rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
yum list alsa* pulseaudio*
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ULN support will be disabled.
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alsa-lib.i386                            1.0.17-1.el5           installed
alsa-lib.x86_64                          1.0.17-1.el5           installed
alsa-utils.x86_64                        1.0.17-1.el5           installed
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alsa-lib-devel.x86_64                    1.0.17-1.el5           ol5_u7_base
alsamixergui.x86_64                      0.9.0-0.3.rc1.el5      epel
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pulseaudio-core-libs.i386                0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-core-libs.x86_64              0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64          0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
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[color="#ff0000" face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Ok I am looking for a good usb option for a sound card. What I am looking for is the best option of the usb sound cards, that has all those sound effect filters to choose from and is great for making recordings. I will be gaming also, but my main concern is recording voice and tweaking my voice with effects. I need advice on which usb card of the creative line is best for my PC:
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[color="#ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS">I have a DELL Optiplex GX270 SFF
[color="#ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS">Pentium 4 HT 2.8 ghz
[color="#ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS"> GB DDR 400 Pro Memory
[color="#ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS">6200 AGP 8X Geforce Card

Strickalator wrote:
[color="#ff0000" face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Ok I am looking for a good usb option for a sound card. What I am looking for is the best option of the usb sound cards, that has all those sound effect filters to choose from and is great for making recordings. I will be gaming also, but my main concern is recording voice and tweaking my voice with effects. I need advice on which usb card of the creative line is best for my PC:
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[color="#ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS">I have a DELL Optiplex GX270 SFF
[color="#ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS">Pentium 4 HT 2.8 ghz
[color="#ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS"> GB DDR 400 Pro Memory
[color="#ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS">6200 AGP 8X Geforce Card
?Creative E-MU 0202 USB, Tracker Pre USB and 0404 USB are superior compared to Creative SB models ... all kind of effects you can found through KVR database - http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php?All you need for recording comes w/ the bundle. jutapa

Need a sound card recommendation

Hi:
I've just gotten into using Premiere Pro CS5 and have gotten the rudiments down. I now need to do a voice over and need to know what kind of audio/sound card to be able to record the voice over to a file that can be imported into the program. There are plenty of sound cards out there but all they talk about is how they apply to gaming. So, I need a recomendation for a sound card.
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is voice really the orphan in this forum? Here we get great recommendations to spend thousands of $/€ for NLE HW/SW and a 200$ piece should be the cure of all voice issues? It's common sense that the ears are not forgiving even slight "errors" in comparision to our eyes (tons of daily broadcasted mobile videos prove this ...)
Jokes aside --> I also own a H4N, but would never go (for serious work) with the WAV file into PPRO (in my small home studio together with AKG C214 mic into a Yamaha N12 digital mixer, DAW Suite from Cubase and Genelec monitors/basswoofer, cost approx 3 K).
Besides the url provided from Harm a quick deep dive can be found here:
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The advanced video files on this WP show virtually all voice related issues and possibilities to get a broad, impressive and convincing VO sound.
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Can someone recommend me a good creative sound card for listening to music

Hi all,
I am thinking to buy a Creative sound card for my new PC.
I have browsed the Creative web site but found out that there are just too many options for me to choose from, like X-FI, e-MuRecon3D Fatal1ty Champion, Recon3D PCIe, E-MU 1212M PCIe.
I have no idea which one is the best for me since I like listening to music.
Please give me some advice.
Thanks
Kitty.

It's ultimately going to depend on how particular you are, and what output you're going to be using.
Arguably the X-Fi Titanium HD will give the clearest output of the whole lot. A measurable 122dB SNR means you'll basically have to turn it up to the threshold of pain before you'll hear any noise produced by the card itself. That doesn't mean there won't be any noise at all in the output - just that the card realistically won't add any that didn't already exist in the source material. Further to this, when run in Entertainment mode you'll also have access to the THX enhancements over the standard Creative ones, which I personally find to be substantially better in actual listening. The EMI shield and changeable op-amps are just gravy.
Of course, there's always fine print. The 122dB SNR only applies to the front outputs, for example. That's not to say the rest aren't very good - they're rated at between 115dB and 118dB - just that they aren't as good. Odds are you won't really care but its still worth mentioning. The other major limitation (in my opinion) is the absence of a good headphone pre-amplifier, but that may or may not be a non-issue depending on whether you use headphones or already have an external one (or, like me, you feel inclined to make your own to solve that limitation).
The other good option would be the Recon3D. I wouldn't bother going with any of the upper market ones for music (or for any reason, for that matter) unless the front drive bay or directional microphone are of any particular importance to you (NB I bought the Fatal1ty Champion edition - still not entirely sure why). An argument could be made for the EMI shield, but with so few components on the board it probably isn't stopping a whole heap of noise anyway over the miniature "shield" on the SPU itself. When compared in raw specs to the Titanium HD, at a glance it would appear to be vastly inferior - 102dB SNR ratio (albeit constant across all outputs) is quite a bit lower, after all.
However, it's important to keep in mind exactly what that means. 102dB SNR still means you'll have to turn the volume up quite a bit to get any extra noise added to your output. You're talking around the volume of a power saw at a little over 3 feet, so realistically it's quite loud - and it's over the level which is generally considered to cause hearing loss with sustained exposure (95dB). You also have to remember that this doesn't apply to the S/PDIF outputs (nor does the HD's 122dB) since they're entirely at the mercy of whatever decoder you're using, so if you're using that output than the extra expense of the HD is pretty much entirely wasted. And, as a major plus, all Recon3D cards have what seems to be a pretty decent headphone pre-amp, which makes a very appreciable difference in listening, as well as supporting the various THX enhancements.
The short version:
- If you're listening mostly via stereo analogue speakers, get the Titanium HD.
- If you're listening mostly via headphones, get the Recon3D (I personally think the pre-amp is better than the higher SNR).
- If you're listening mostly via S/PDIF to an external amp, it doesn't matter (but get the Recon3D because it's cheaper).

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: Hi there,
I would like to connect a sound card upto my amplifier using RCA to RCA connections and not the easy route people would take using theY connector.
What is the best sound card to use to achieve this?

I know that the SB X-Fi Surround 5. bundles a Y connector as it has stereo RCA jacks. See if it suits you for [email protected].

2 sound cards, need help/ advice before spending money

I've got 4 speakers hooked up to the rear jacks of my K7n2 delta's on board sound card.
Problem is my headphones are all but dead and i'm going to replace them. I'm considering buying these:
Zalman 5.1 headphones.
http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/zalman_hp/zalmanphones_1.htm
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I realize i've never seen some one use 2 cards before and i dont know if this solution is even viable. My technical knowledge has been gathered through experience and tinkering around so i'm hoping some one here has some insight.
Thx in advance.
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This past Monday, I just replaced my old pc case with the Cooler Master Praetorian (Black) case... ( http://www.dealsonic.com/comablprpaal.html ) Since it had the front I/O panel for the headset, I wanted to use that AND my speakers. I enabled the Onboard Sound for the front I/O panel and my speakers are connected to the SB Live!
Whenever I want to plug in the headphones, all I do is go to the audio properties, select the 'default' onboard playback device (making sure the checkmark is there for "use default device only") and now all sound is blasting out the headphones - not my speakers. My wife prefers that when I game online!
When I am not using the headphones or gaming; I go through the same process and choose my SB Live! card for speaker output. Only a few mouse clicks away instead of pulling the case out to swap connectors as I was doing before.

Hello! Please, recommend a USB sound card 5.1 for iMac.

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Thank you for responding! Here is my sound system http://www.nix.ru/include/view-photo.html?good_id=20301&pid=2236, it probably is sold only in Russia, so you can not find it in Google. It has no digital output,unfortunately ..
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Need Advice, I have a AC-97 sound card, seems to only go up to supporting 5.1, i want 7.1 speakers.

I have an AC-97 sound card, seems to only go up to supporting 5.1, but i want 7.1 speaker set.
i Want to know if it would work, would i get sound?
i obviously realise i wont get 7.1 surround sound, but will it just act as a set of 5.1 speakers with 2 speakers not functioning, or what?

DavidHaynes,
That will depend on the model of the speaker you are looking for. Take for example the Creative Inspire T7700 7.1 speaker. Although it's a 7.1 speaker, you could connect the speaker to a 5.1 soundcard and with the inbuilt CMSS feature within the speaker, you can have sound playback across the full 7.1 speaker configuration.
Jason

Lost sound, uninstalled sound card (forum advice) now what?

I lost sound on my system and automatic driver repair did nothing, another forum said to uninstall the sound card and reinstall. I uninstalled and now what? where do i find the card to reinstall. the card is IDT High Definition Audio CODEC.
Also having trouble installing updates, constantly get the error message 80070BC9

BDF2, welcome to the forum.
Here is the Software and drivers page for the computer. The only driver that is available for the sound card is for Win 8.0. Therefore, you should use the original driver. You can have the program scan you system to find the appropriate driver, also. Click on "Check now" and install the additional software. Then, follow the instructions and the program will scan your computer for driver updates or for missing drivers.
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