low budget sound card

[fulanito]

Hi all,
I need to know a good low budget sound card , so I can have prelisten in live, since two sound cards don´t work.
Thanks in advance

[ket no i.d.]

I asked that too a couple of timesn this forum and did not get any replies.
meanwhile i bought a gigaport ag (from esi)and it works fine. is has 8 analog outs and a optical out and was only 189 euro. if you want something cheeper try a (used) maudio dman 2044. i saw these for 99 euro on sale the other day.
hope this helps

[fulanito]

thank you man. I´ll check about your sound card

[krispy]

I'm going to try out echo audio's new pc card soundcard that has two stereo outputs. it's gotten rave reviews, and it's only 99 bucks. will let the peeps know how well it works with live.

[Vercengetorex]

Krispy, that card will NOT provide a prelisten cabability seperate from your main output. I was just reading about that card the other day on Echos site and both 1/8" output jacks are connected to the same output, so any signal present on one is on the other as well making this card not all to well suited for Live. My recomendation to you falinato is to seriously consider M-Audio's offerings. I am using a Delta 410 which provides 2analog in, spdif in 8analog out, and spdif out. I use a mixer to give me more power in the analog domain (hardware effects, realtime mixing, x-fading etc) and prelisten over the spdif with a nanoamp dm2000 digital headphone monitor making it a very versitle live setup. The card was around 200$ US and I think is was well worth it. I have had nothing but positive experiences with this hardware and software on Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8.5, Win 98, and Win XP. The M-Audio Audiophile is also a good low-budget choice. BTW both cards are 24bit/96khz and work beautifully as such with Live and Reason 2. Just my $0.02.