The Trouble With Sound Cards....

I gotta tell ya. I've been collecting records almost all of my life, and when I transferred my first album over to digital, I have to say I was amazed! I thought that having your records on your iPod was about the coolest thing that could possibly happen. But there was one problem, and that was everything that I transferred sounded so hollow... almost as if it was going through PVC pipe before reaching my software. I was always using Adobe Audition, first using the Audition 1.5 platform that had a lot of neat features, before moving on to the 3.0 which was even better. There are many great on board features of Audition that allowed you to beef up your sound before final saving of the mp3 file... and from that, East Malaysia was born. I performed many jobs for customers that were completely satisfied without even realizing how unsatisfactory the work actually was. Enter the Yamaha Audiogram 6. It is a USB external audio interface with Pre-amp and compression, allowing the lows to be True lows, and the highs to be life-like and not quite so tinny. I always wondered why the records never quite sounded the same in their digital state, as they did on the platter, and now I know. Now, don't get me wrong. There are a lot of Sound Cards out there on the market that will reproduce in a life-like way... I just didn't have one. So, if you don't feel like digging into your CPU, and damaging God knows what while you install your sound card, I would highly recommend going external. You'll be very glad you did. Or, better yet, Bring them to East Malaysia Productions, and let us do all the tinkering for you!