I have a laptop with a built-in sound card and its recording capabilities are poor. Must I also purchase a separate sound card for the PC to get all the benefits of the ART US Phono Plus?
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No your built in sound will be fine. The amp and software will clean everything up. Getting pops and clicks out of vinyl is a little tricky as it can make the recording sound muddy. Otherwise the amp worked great for me.
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Don't quote me on this, but I don't think that would be an issue if you used the software included. Seeing as it's a USB connection and converts the analog signal through the unit it should be OK. I'm not a computer expert though, so I could be wrong. Just my thoughts.
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You can plug it into another system through the headphone jack. I had mine sey up on my PC so I could make digital recordings of my tapes. You need a special sound card that takes such inputs, but it worked fine for me. Recordings could then be modified through audio editing software to make them sound good. :-) Hope this helps.
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Need to go into a computer. It's perfect for composing, using in home. I don't use it on gigs. The great thing, is that there is plenty of software out there that allows for it with pretty amazing sound banks. I use MAINSTAGE. It also comes with a CD to load into your system to use it's own software (I don't use it). Hope that helps Sandy
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take the card and plug it in the computer and see if it has sound on the computer in the camera it has no sound or extremely poor sound but take the card and plug in my computer and i have great sound make sure there is no clear tape over the mic on camera and make sure the setting on camera are not set on mute
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With this microphone, you will need an audio interface to enable a hook-up to your computer. The audio interface, like a USB mixer, will enable you to plug in the XLR connector from the mic into the mixer and then output the signal to your computer via a USB cable. I would suggest purchasing a USB microphone which will plug directly into your laptop or desktop. The Blue USB microphone was on sale at Amazon for $50 a few days ago. The AT-2020 is also a good choice. You'll then need a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) in order to edit, enhance, save your work. There are free DAWs like Audacity and others that you can purchase. I narrate books for Audible.com and used the AT2020 for narrating a number of books with good results. There are better choices for a dynamic microphone than this PG48. I purchased this mic earlier this year and found it to be very "tinny"--not full bodied. I returned the mic for a refund.
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You can use any sound card you'd like. There are a wealth of inputs and some accept more than one type of connector. I think that for optimal sound, you should use a source with balanced output over XLR. This would be ideal, and any professional level SoundCard, or mixer for that matter, should offer a balanced output via 1/4" or XLR cable connection.
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NO. External only. The whole deal with external sound cards, which this is on a miniature scale, is to by-pass the laptops super cheap on-board sound processor and hand off the process to a dedicated, full featured Digital Signal Processor, DSP. The laptop circuitry is optimized for size and cuts corners, clipping high and low tones. The sound card fully processes the signal for a richer, fuller sound. But.... it's an external, pre-amp signal for an external amplifier. The internal speakers are completely by-passed.
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I have an older HP Pavilion laptop that doesn't "see" my onboard soundcard. The USB external soundcard is a soundcard itself, so it replaces the onboard card. It works great on my laptop - simply plug it in and attach headphones or external powered speakers. It won't make the laptop speakers work, so you have to have separate speakers or headphones/earbuds. I don't your PC, but it worked great for me.
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Hi, how can you plug the mixer into the laptop? I don't recommend the sound card onboard to record because maybe you experiment some latency when you record. The laptop is ok, but you need to buy adicional parts to optimize the latency, one of those is an external sound card and also one ssd disk to replace the default hard disk. For record i recommend a m-audio card, good luck!
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Yes. I would recommend looking at one of the Asus Essence series cards for strictly music. http://www.asus.com/us/Sound_Cards_and_DigitaltoAnalog_Converters/Xonar_Audio_Cards_Essence_Series_Products/
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I didn't get any special sound card. I am running mine on a MAC desktop that is about 2 years old, sounds great. So I guess it depends how old your computer is.
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My vinyl to pc capture was pre hdmi. I used rca to pc audio input. Software must have vinyl clean up feature.outcome is not high quality, but provided a clean retro sound on cd for a friend who's father recorded the album for her. sorry, HDMI audio in from rca...haven't tried. Maybe Audicity could help
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In one time, I have two USB sound cards, one integrated sound card on mother board, and a DAC. So yes, you just have to choose you playback device.
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There is a USB sound card that does come with the product. It is not required for use if you want to use the Headset/Mic audio jacks However, if you want to use the software features, you need to have the headset plugged in with the USB sound card. Horrible Google Translation: Hay una tarjeta de sonido USB que viene con el producto. No se requiere para su uso si desea utilizar las tomas de audio Auriculares / Mic Sin embargo, si desea utilizar las funciones de software , es necesario tener el auricular conectado a la tarjeta de sonido USB .
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No the software "software only transfers the program to your PC as a MP3. I strongly recommend that you use a Audio specific program like Sony Sound Forge. Within Sound you can record the music into your PC, and clean it up the music clip as much as possible. The software that came with the ION express is basically useless.
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No. You will have to get a USB external sound card. I got mine off Amazon for only $3.16. Just search USB external sound card in the Amazon search box. I got the 7.1 Channel USB external sound card adapter. It works great. I'm still waiting for my mixtrack 2 ,but I used the sound card with another numark unit.
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The USB EWI is a midi controller and connects to the couputer through a USB cable, so you need a USB port. It also draws its power thru the USB port. It comes with Garritan software that generates the sounds for the different instruments. Has LOTS of sounds and they are excellent! It helps to have a good quality sound card, but is not necessary. You can upgrade your computer sounds and speakers later if you want. Most modern computers have plenty of processing speed. The software runs under Windows so you need that. I run mine on a desktop computer with a SoundBlaster card and speakers. I also run it on a laptop with a Soundblaster plug in. The instrument sounds range from very good to excellent. My favorites sounds are the clarinets, flutes, and violins. The brass instruments are quite good as well. There are some good online sites to get help. ewiusb dot com is very good and you can google "Bernie Kenerson" for lessons. He will give live lessons via Skype and is an outstanding EWI musician. I had Bells' Palsy for two years and was unable to play my clarinet and saxophones because half of my face was paralyzed. I COULD play my EWI though and used it in my church orchestra. I ran it with my laptop and plugged the sound into the sound system and no one could tell the difference between my EWI and my clarinet. There are also additional sound libraries you can get later to expand your number of available instruments.