wasabihead Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 So... this is probably a stupid question but I want to give it a shot: I bought a Emu 0404 card and got it today, so I hooked it up and everything; only to realize that there's no sound, but I can see from the patchmix that the sound is undulating so THERE must be sound... after some I research I came to the realization that since all I have is a desktop speaker, I'll probably need a Mono 1/4" male to Stereo 1/8" female adapter! Is this true?! Or is there any other way I can just use stereo input rather than having to get an adaptor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moseph Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Just to clarify, this is the Emu 0404 PCI card and NOT the Emu 0404 USB interface, right? I think that you'll need the adapter. Only other option I can think of is to buy speakers with 1/4" inputs, and that would definitely be more expensive. If you can find the particular adapter you need, it should be <$10. If you can't find it specifically, you should be able to hack a substitute from this and this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasabihead Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Thanks alot and yes this is the card not the USB.... to my dismay though I didn't know the USB alternative exists... : / The first link didn't work, but I have something like that from the second link, so I can at least confirm that my sound card DOES work! : d I'm going to search and also call customer service to see if there is in fact a adaptor for the desktop speakers available for this particular card... Also since I started a sound card topic: what would be the key difference between a card and the USB? I mean from the obvious I know that the USB is more portable, but is there anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moseph Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Eh ... you're right, the links have gone down. Try them again later today -- the entire samash.com site is acting odd, and maybe they'll get it fixed. What I linked to was an adapter that changed two male 1/4" monos to one female 1/4" stereo (so basically the two mono outputs could be combined to a single stereo output). If you plug the second adapter -- female 1/8" stereo to male 1/4" stereo -- into this, you get a stereo jack that should be the size of your speaker cable. I use the 0404 USB with my laptop because I can't install a PCI card in it. The PCI card has a higher bandwidth available to it, so there's theoretically less likely to be latency problems when recording. Functionally, there's not much difference between a PCI card and an external USB/Firewire interface -- usually there are just differences in the types of inputs and outputs they offer, and an external interface may have level-adjustment knobs physically on the unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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