Quote Originally Posted by Microdot View Post
start from scratch Mark.

get yer hand in yer pocket and buy a decent quality sound device, it's one of the things you can't skimp on if you're deadly serious about production (the others being your computer (should be a mac) and your monitors (genelec imo)).
sell the edirol on ebay.
well this is not for my main studio computer :) i have the bollocks of a MOTU for that one (can ya imagine what things would be sounding like out of this edirol lol). no, this is for an old Powerbook that I'm turning into a recording device to use after my Finalizer. Up until now, I've been running into an old Tascam DAT, but obviously this means I'm having to convert down to 16 bit and then back up to 24 when I tweak in Soundforge. This way, everything stays 24 bit until that very last moment, then I can bang it down just before sending to the cut.

but, you're deadly right actually. I mean at NO point can anything in the chain, including recording, be weak and of course this Edirol is exactly that. bah OK ANOTHER soundcard it is.

Can anyone recommend a good quality soundcard (preferably quite portable) that has aes inputs? It could have two outputs for all I care - it simply doesnt matter.

And yeah, it MUST be aes, cause my Finalizer doesnt have a spdif.