Anyone familiar with DMX 6Fire soundcard?

[awolkoff]

I do very little gaming, mostly into audio/music/cd mixing stuff.

Anyone have any familiarity with this soundcard?

6Fire

 

[JSt0rm]

Musicians friend is over rated and too expensive. Check out www.audiomidi.com

http://www.audiomidi.com/master.cfm?SID=11 <-- all pci cards. Terratec isn't bad per say. At $200 its all prosumer stuff anyhow so pick featires you want and check to see if the company has good driver support.

 

[ProviaFan]

I do no gaming, and on the audio recording system that I use, I have the M-Audio Delta 1010LT. It doesn't cost much more than the card you reference, but it's very well regarded as a good low-budget multichannel card, if that's what you're wanting.

Edit: regarding musician's friend... I have a friend who swears by them, but the above poster's comments do seem true to me. OTOH, I've also had good success with Sweetwater sound, a company that happens to be local to the state that I live in (which is helpful in the shipping cost area when the organization you do audio tech stuff for wants to order a 160 pound mixer). 😉

 

[Algere]

Creative/Emu makes a better card @ that pricepoint.

 

[JSt0rm]

Sweetwater is also overpriced and they don't even care. They told me you are paying for the service ;p

www.fullcompass.com also has cheap prices. They will also beat most any price by a dollar.

I will tell you from my experience I spent the money on a nice RME hammerfall 96/36 pci card with 3 adat connecters. This will allow me to upgrade the converters (I'm using the stock converters in a da7 digital mixer) in the future and also hook up a seperate word clock (basicly a better sync for the digital signal). My latency? 1.5ms with about 18 tracks running. I normaly work at 3ms though as I usually have higher track counts.

http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hdsp/multifa.htm <smart all in one product

http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hammer/d9652.htm <pci card with adatx3+wordclock


Another product to look into is the creamware pci cards. If you are planning on doing a lot of virtual synthisis, mixing and effects this has some sharc dsp chips+software on a pci card with adat and some other audio connectors. It's a smart product and also comes with lots of software effects, mixing enviroment and some synths.

http://www.creamware.com/index.php?submenu=products&amp;seite=products&amp;lang=en

Both of these cost more then what you are looking at but its good to see the options ;p