[BC] Sound card ideas

[Mike McCarthy]

When you're recording both the local talent and phone at the same time, you 
need to record for the highest quality devices...the local mics.

I agree with the premise of sampling at 8 khz for phone calls only.  But 
not for hybrid of both caller and talent.  And the sound card does matter, 
quite significantly.

MM

At 08:43 PM 2/2/2009 -0500, WBRadiolists at aol.com wrote
>In a message dated 02/02/2009 10:41:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>mearle at mearle.com writes:
>
> > The use is torecord phone calls for later on-air playback. The $20 level
> >  cards and the internal on-board sound sets just are not quite up to this
> >  task.
>
>You're really serious? You could pretty much record phone calls at 8Khz
>sampling, and still sound almost the same. ;)
>
>I've used the internal sound cards of motherboards many times for all kinds
>of things. It sounds fine. Phone calls are almost a "joke" in the sense that
>your audio is limited to what, 200Hz to 3Khz? I'm just amazed to think that
>there would be even a slightly noticible difference between a built-in and 
>a $99
>Prosumer card on phone call audio! Classical Music, maybe. Phone calls? I 
>just
>can't imagine it. :)
>
>Willie...