Home Studio Audio Interface. For home recording artists an Audio Interface is an absolute must unless you have a mixer with multi-track recording capabilities but these ones are EXPENSIVE. Audients preamps are truly fantastic for its price range providing 66 dB of clean gain.
Presonus Studio 24c. They will do all the noise mitigation a standalone DAC would but with the added benefit of allowing you to record music. An audio interface is the piece of studio equipment that allows you to record an analog signal convert them to digital audio signals and then transport them into your computer so you can do all of your post-processing work like mixing and mastering.
It works at a slightly lower sample rate than other interfaces offering 24-bits and 96kHz but there is minimal noticeable difference between recordings in 128kHz and 96kHz most home studio DAW projects are only 48kHz.
Based on tests using spectrum analyzers it has been found that internal sound cards have a higher noise floor than that of their external counterparts. For musicians DJs and beatmakers taking their first steps in recording and production an audio interface is likely to be one of their first purchases. This is where youll plug in microphones speakers and headphones. It works at a slightly lower sample rate than other interfaces offering 24-bits and 96kHz but there is minimal noticeable difference between recordings in 128kHz and 96kHz most home studio DAW projects are only 48kHz.