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guezart
Published on 11/14/06 at 16:18
Best value:
Excellent
I bought this card for the apparent usability (faders, easily accessible entrances ...) and look too "box rickicki" What other cards. For the price too! (But that I later understood why the cheap does mean sometimes "poor quality"!)
I was especially need to record my instruments and hardware to connect my DAT.
My config: Pentium 4 3Ghz with 2GB ram.
UTILIZATION
The installation, without being more complicated than that, is not the quickest and easiest that I have seen, but nothing really problematic.
GETTING STARTED
The drivers are absolutely not stable! At least at the time I had this card, I downloaded the version 2 (I'm talking about the past because, as I say further, I am separated).
I had a lot of instability problems. I spent my time to restart the computer and sometimes it did not recognize the card. And the config of my PC should not be for something as it is strong enough and since I switched to another, with the new, no problem of instability.
In addition the software used are great standards: Cubase sx2, SoundForge 8 ...
The latency was correct, up to 7 or 8 ms, imperceptible to the ear.
Next record more than two tracks I have not tried.
BUT, another big problem: the digital input not working (while the output yes). So I went through the shop where I bought the BCA for the return to Behringer. She came back after almost two months and the problem was definitely not fixed!
In short, having read on forums that others also had concerns of instability in their CAL (however, the problem of the digital input, I feel like the only one), I preferred to change maps.
OVERALL OPINION
I used it about two months ... at least I tried to use it!
If that card had not laid the problems I have mentioned, it was in its range, a very good quality / price ratio because it sounded very correct and rather sweet potato. It is also, as I said, fairly well designed ergonomically.
So I changed to an Edirol, the FA-66 Firewire, I've been 8 months and has never planted or placed any problems. If sound quality is as blameless for its price range (but higher than the Behringer), it is less fishing BCA entry. After I have not had the opportunity to make comparative tests between the two on sound quality since I did not have both at the same time.
But the choice is clear himself a works fine, the other not!
So if it again I do not buy the BCA.
I was especially need to record my instruments and hardware to connect my DAT.
My config: Pentium 4 3Ghz with 2GB ram.
UTILIZATION
The installation, without being more complicated than that, is not the quickest and easiest that I have seen, but nothing really problematic.
GETTING STARTED
The drivers are absolutely not stable! At least at the time I had this card, I downloaded the version 2 (I'm talking about the past because, as I say further, I am separated).
I had a lot of instability problems. I spent my time to restart the computer and sometimes it did not recognize the card. And the config of my PC should not be for something as it is strong enough and since I switched to another, with the new, no problem of instability.
In addition the software used are great standards: Cubase sx2, SoundForge 8 ...
The latency was correct, up to 7 or 8 ms, imperceptible to the ear.
Next record more than two tracks I have not tried.
BUT, another big problem: the digital input not working (while the output yes). So I went through the shop where I bought the BCA for the return to Behringer. She came back after almost two months and the problem was definitely not fixed!
In short, having read on forums that others also had concerns of instability in their CAL (however, the problem of the digital input, I feel like the only one), I preferred to change maps.
OVERALL OPINION
I used it about two months ... at least I tried to use it!
If that card had not laid the problems I have mentioned, it was in its range, a very good quality / price ratio because it sounded very correct and rather sweet potato. It is also, as I said, fairly well designed ergonomically.
So I changed to an Edirol, the FA-66 Firewire, I've been 8 months and has never planted or placed any problems. If sound quality is as blameless for its price range (but higher than the Behringer), it is less fishing BCA entry. After I have not had the opportunity to make comparative tests between the two on sound quality since I did not have both at the same time.
But the choice is clear himself a works fine, the other not!
So if it again I do not buy the BCA.