Soundcards for Radio Stations

26 Apr 2008 | No Comments | posted by James M | in Industry Insider

A good quality soundcard is absolutely vital if you are real serious about having a high quality sounding stream. Especially if you are inputting music from an external source (eg. microphone, cd players, ipod/mp3 players, mini disc) via a mixing desk. Chances are, the standard soundcard that comes with your computer won’t be the best quality and you may get interference in your broadcasts or recordings.

We use the M-Audio Delta 44 at our office for our ‘radio pc’ where we do occasionally broadcast from live, plus do quite a bit of production work with. We have got 2 mono and 1 stereo outputs coming from this going into the mixing desk and then being fed back in stereo to the soundcard.

Looks like this:

The great thing about the M-Audio Delta 44 soundcard we use is that it produces excellent results. We’d highly recommend it to anyone!

There are of course other professional soundcards you can pick up and which can be installed into nearly all desktop PC’s.

Check out the following links for some great soundcards:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Delta44-main.html
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family&ID=recording