I need an external sound card. Why not an internal sound card? Well, I have a few reasons. First, I blew out my PCI slot. Yeah, it sounds severe, but it’s true. I was recording, and I put too much power into the input, and all of the sudden, everything I recorded sounded all distorted. I ran out and bought a new sound card, but of course it couldn’t be that simple. After installing the new card, I still had the exact same problem. So, I cannot use a PCI sound card. Another reason that I want an external card is for future-proofing. The PCI slot is going the way of the floppy disk… being replaced by E-PCI or some such newfangled goodness. So for the sake of being able to use my expensive components with my next computer, I’m looking for an external sound card. I just hope that I can get the USB 2.0 to work.

I’d like to buy this Creative E-MU sound card because it records in 24 bit, has separate left/right inputs and a nice built in preamp. Sadly, I cannot afford such luxuries at the moment. A good card like this is going to cost you a hundred bucks or more, even on sale , and I just can’t see myself spending that kind of scratch at the moment.

My other option is just to buy a new computer, but I won’t settle for anything less than a quad-core CPU, and I won’t pay more than $400 for it, and I don’t really have that kind of dough to spend anyway, so it’s going to be a while before I get a new PC.

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