Portable recording with a laptop (was: Re: [vorbis] new stuff and question)

[Colin D Bennett]

al goldstein wrote:

>I want arelatively cheap laptop to do portable recording. Any good choices
>available?
>.......Al
>  
>

I've wondered how good a laptop really is for recording. Maybe for what 
you're planning to do you aren't worried too much about quality, but I 
have 2 Behringer mics and a little mixer, and I've done a little 
recording using my laptop of my sister playing harp. I just haven't been 
impressed with the sound quality.  I'm using the integrated sound card 
on the laptop, and I think it is just really noisy. Has anyone else 
noticed this? I can even sometimes hear noises in my headphones when the 
hard drive is accessed.

Has anyone used a USB sound card? Are there any good quality ones out 
there that would provide better sound quality?

Otherwise, I'll have to use my main system, which is a real pain, 
because it's water cooled (http://colin.radnethosting.com/tsunami) so 
it's quite nonportable. I have a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 card in my main 
system, which I though was a quality card, but I understand that for 
high quality recording, you should actually have a "professional" sound 
card. Is this true? What kind of sound card should I get, then?

-cd

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