Members 73Monte Posted November 10, 2007 Members Share Posted November 10, 2007 Hello everyone, I am in the process of picking out the items I will need for building a pc dedicated to audio recording. I'm certainly not rich but I'm looking for pro results!! My first question would be: what motherboard/processor would be best suited? I've been looking and it seems that a lot of what is available inlude integraded audio or video. I feel like this is something I would regret, given all of the things that could happen. Any one have any ideas?Plenty of speed and mucho PCI slots would be great too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mindwave Posted November 11, 2007 Members Share Posted November 11, 2007 personally ive always used AMD's myself and found great performence. as for MB's your BEST bet is to go to AMD.com and look at their recommended mb list, personally i always get the BEST #'s out of ASUS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members el_tonto Posted November 12, 2007 Members Share Posted November 12, 2007 You can still add a "proper" sound card to a motherboard with integrated audio/video so don't worry about that regard. In 99% this will disable the integrated audio, but that's no great loss. No motherboard will be pro-quality audio, you'll need to add an external unit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jimytheassassin Posted November 13, 2007 Members Share Posted November 13, 2007 You can check this forum out also ( www.bigbluelounge.com ). There's some good info over there about external audio solutions. I would agree with el tonto, that no motherboard will have pro-quality audio. Granted that things always improve and you could still use integrated audio in a pinch. The main reason for getting an external is for ( improved signal quality, flatter frequency response, higher quality internal pre-amps, low latancy ) + all the other bells and whistles. If you really need to go budget you risk loosing "true fidelity". But I've recorded venues with nothing more than a Griffen iMic, Art phantom pre-amp, and a Rode NT2/Rode NT3. The results were actually pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ILikeFish Posted November 13, 2007 Members Share Posted November 13, 2007 Yes it's real. http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/aopenax4btube/ I don't think they make it anymore tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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