KVR Audio

Jerry X · Post by **Jerry X** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:06 pm

Hey y'all,

I am thinking of buying a M-Audio Delta 1010lt for recording.
Is it a good choice? wanna use it at home for recording guitars keyboards etc, and wanna use it in our rehearsal room for recording only drum tracks.
I wanna record a scratch guitar/key part at home, take it to our rehearsalroom and record the drum tracks over there while our drummer is hearing the scratch parts. what about it??

thanks a lot,

Jerry

darrenn · Post by **darrenn** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:33 pm

I have 2 1010lt running together and they are solid as anything performance wise.
Probably not the best for mobile work as all of the connections come out of the back of the card on 4 inch cables.
Do you intend to take a pc from place to place? - really you want a laptop for that?
Also the connections are unbalanced so short cable runs are OK but if you have longer to go a balanced card may be better.
Darren

Jerry X · Post by **Jerry X** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:07 pm

I wanna do most recording at home, so I will take my PC with with only for the drum tracks, it'll be pretty close to the drummer I guess..so that solves the problem of the cable length.

Thanks,

Jerry

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:51 pm

Dunno weather you're already aware of this: apart from the multi-channel audio card like the Delta1010LT you also need several mics and as many mic preamps (maybe a mixer provides these) since the card only has line inputs.

I have an AudioTrak Maya1010 card, and I'm quite happy with it. Pro: sturdy breakout box instead of vulnerable bunch of spaghetti at the back of your PC. Con: no option to add a second card and double number of inputs/outputs.

darrenn · Post by **darrenn** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:09 pm

actually two of the inputs have pre-amps you have to set this with dip switches before you install into the machine - but only the first two
Darren

floydbase · Post by **floydbase** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:44 am

The first two channel has pre-amps on it.... if you don't have a mixer right now, you can get by with those two by pluggin in your mics. Actually you don't have to set the dip switch on the card, you need to do that if you want to bring it down to line level only.

Overall its a great card.

floydbase · Post by **floydbase** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:37 am

I use this card for home recording.... as far as performance goes it's been very reliable. I use it with combination of presonus firepod which has eight inputs/outputs and firewire.... when I need to be portable I just pull the firepod and hook it to my laptop.

where02190 · Post by **where02190** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:44 am

The 1010LT's 2 onboard mic pres are IMHO pretty suck.

kaverka · Post by **kaverka** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:06 pm

It's old, but reliable. The preamps are useless and the converters are substandard compared to newer models. Save some money and get something better. Consider an EMU.