mikev
12-20-2008, 01:46 PM
I'm interested in finding out if anyone has tried the cheap blue box USB sound cards that come from china and are on ebay for roughly $20.00.
My main questions are:
1.) whether the SPDIF inputs are RCA or TOSDISK (there appear to be square plugs that stick out of the sockets in the photos.
2.) whether the drivers allow for full duplex SPDIF recording once the codecs are installed (will probably cause a different volume control window than the laptop internal sound card to come up similar to Behringer's U-Control interface). In other words if there is latency, there has to be a way to monitor the recording in action. Unlike Behringer's U-Control, there is no monitor headphone jack on the Soundcard to hear the recording and playback thru.
3.) whether the latency is decent.
I'm primarily interested in getting an inexpensive but acceptable SPDIF input for multitrack recording into a laptop and don't care about any other aspects of the sound quality related to the other inputs. I've previously used a Platinum Soundblaster with SPDIF input for a desktop and it was better than the audio inputs. I run most stuff through an old J-Station and use its SPDIF output into the soundcard. It's primitive but yields acceptable results. Thanks.
My main questions are:
1.) whether the SPDIF inputs are RCA or TOSDISK (there appear to be square plugs that stick out of the sockets in the photos.
2.) whether the drivers allow for full duplex SPDIF recording once the codecs are installed (will probably cause a different volume control window than the laptop internal sound card to come up similar to Behringer's U-Control interface). In other words if there is latency, there has to be a way to monitor the recording in action. Unlike Behringer's U-Control, there is no monitor headphone jack on the Soundcard to hear the recording and playback thru.
3.) whether the latency is decent.
I'm primarily interested in getting an inexpensive but acceptable SPDIF input for multitrack recording into a laptop and don't care about any other aspects of the sound quality related to the other inputs. I've previously used a Platinum Soundblaster with SPDIF input for a desktop and it was better than the audio inputs. I run most stuff through an old J-Station and use its SPDIF output into the soundcard. It's primitive but yields acceptable results. Thanks.