[geeks] Audio Recording

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:10:54PM -0500, Michael Thompson wrote:
> > The problem is that PC sound cards stink. They are built for playing sound to
> > small speakers, chatting with $1 condenser microphones and recording old
> > tapes to low bitrate MP3s.
> 
> Well, my PC sound card will do 24-bit/96 kHz audio recording from
> several Line-In and SPDIF inputs and it is designed for use with both
> dynamic and condenser microphones.

Generally, I think that SPDIF inputs are safe, although one card would
re-sample anything input that way (rather than slave its own clock to
spdif), which rather sucks.  I think it was one of the EMU chipset cards
that did that.