good external sound card

[Jean Huber]

Le 06/03/2013 17:09, jack wallen a écrit :
> Hey all! I wanted to get some recommendations on a good quality external
> sound card. Here's the problem -- I use a Blue Yeti USB mic, so I'm not
> 100% sure if I use an external sound card, if the Yeti will still work as
> expected (with the on-board sound off -- it's an intel card which has the
> dreaded skipping issue with alsa).
>
> If anyone would have some suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Jack
>
>
You could use a Firewire sound card, in order to avoir conflicts.
Then there are tricks in ALSA to manage several sound cards at once, 
available on the ALSA forums, but I don't do it.
I run a Multimix USB 1.1 mixing table, so I can get my microphone (6.35 
jack)  in and my sound out.

Good luck

Jean