cheap usb-audio-interface

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:30 +0100, Roy Damen wrote:
> Hello Martin, i bought a behringer u-202(not at home,i think this is the
> type ) usb audio device for Christmas for myself. Behringer has good
> inside quality with saving on the housing, which means cheap. It has a
> max of 48kHz, but worked out of the box with pulseaudio, digital
> output, jack and alsa in a better way than the onboard card(alc888).
> Even the soundquality is better than the onboard @ 48kHz. The funny
> thing is that it costed 27 Euro's incl shipping and it is a very small
> high quality device, Check your local dealer or the Behringer site for
> this soundcard with line in/out spdif-out and usb, i say the
> price/quality is pretty amazing for a small device like this,!

http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_ucontrol_uca_202.htm 23.90€ +
shipping costs. I don't know if this device is a good one, but it has
got no mic pre-amps.

On German, but reading isn't needed:
Balanced non-discrete mic pre-amp without phantom power:

http://www.theimann.com/Analog/Misc_Tech/Sym_Elrad/index.html

>From the German Wiki (but you don't need to read the German text here
too):
Phantom power:

http://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/public/schaerer/dcdc48v.htm

and how to add it to the pre-amp(information by Shoeps!):

http://www.schoeps.de/D-2004/PDFs/Mikrofonbuch_Kap13.pdf


But I guess I was mistaken. It's possible to get studio quality (btw. I
worked for Brauner microphones, today no studio audio anymore, I'm
working for Terres Des Hommes), but perhaps it's more expensive to build
such a pre-amp yourself, than it is to buy one.

Cheers!

Ralf