Product: Terratec Phase 22
Price Paid: Euroes 150
Submitted
04/01/2008
at
05:05am
by
Simba7
General
:
9
24 Bit/96 kHz PCI recording interface.
The card is now called Terrasoniq TS22PCI in Europe.
Connectivity
:
No Opinion
PCI.
I/O
:
8
* 2 analog inputs, 6.3 mm (1/4") jacks, balanced
* 2 analog outputs, 6.3 mm (1/4") jacks, balanced
* S/PDIF I/O
* MIDI interface
The card uses the Envy24HT-S chip with the AK4524 codec chip.
Power
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No Opinion
Technical specs
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9
* 24-bit/96-kHz signal processing via analog inputs/outputs
* 24-bit/192-kHz signal processing via the digital output
* 24-bit/96-kHz signal processing via Digital In with HW sample rate recognition
* 102 dB signal-to-noise ratio (A-weighting); analog inputs
* 110 dB signal-to-noise ratio (A-weighting); analog outputs
* 2.2 V RMS output level
* WDM drive for Windows 98SE/ME/2000 and XP
* Core Audio and Core MIDI support for Mac OS X
* ASIO 2.0 support - Windows only
* GigaStudio (GSIF) support - Windows only
* WDM Kernel Streaming (e.g. Sonar) - Windows only
* MME and DirectSound support - Windows only
* Works in linux as well (ALSA support), but not very well.
* Direct monitoring available, through ASIO drivers.
Other
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8
Control Panel Applet, where you can set the sampling bitrate, the size of the buffer and the sync. clock source.
Overall
:
8
I bought this card about three years ago from Thomann.de and it has worked nicely for me. I use it in my home studio with Cubase SX and my Genelec 1030a active monitors. you can now get it for about 75e.
I used it to record:
acoustic guitars - I just plug them straight to the card.
Electric guitars - Through my Marshall JMP-10 speaker emulator jack.
Vocals - I have a Rode NTK mic. I plug the power unit straight to the card.
Keyboards - through the MIDI ports.
IT has worked great for me, It sounds great for the price I paid.
Working with Cubase SX has some issues: for example every time Cubase crashes, it changes the ASIO driver in to the default one.
I have a PC with 1.8GHz Athlon and 1G memory.
I had problems with monitoring delay, which I solved by installing a second winXP on my PC and by configuring it for Audio use only:
no USB, no internet, no APCI, I disabled all the XP services I didn't need and changed the priority to back ground services.
In the new striped winXP, Cubase hardly ever crashes and the response time of the software is much faster. no delay problems either.
I'm now buying an analog mixer so that I can have better control over the recording process. I wish I've bought a mixer ages ago... :)
