Anyone can recommend me a budget external soundcard ?

[mdnbmy]

having latency problems with my mic..
any external soundcards to recommend ?

 

[Zerox Millienium]

Any audio interface should enable you to record efficiently.

Then again, you may want to re-examine the way you record and the improvements that can be made to your computer.
- Use a good DAW such as reaper.
- Install and configure ASIO4ALL to enable your soundcard.
- Configure your DAW to use ASIO4ALL, set reasonable latency settings perhaps 10 to 15ms by adjusting the buffer sizes.
- Close apps that maybe using resources that you won't need at the time of recording, free up resources.
- Turn off windows sounds if you can help it.
- Unplug unused USB devices (in case too much I/O)
- Close apps that maybe causing a lot of harddisk activity (in case too much I/O, such as peer-to-peer leeching clients)

Try to exhaust as many options as possible in hope that it'll improve performance.

Best of luck.

 

[Cheez]

Excellent advice. I suggest for mobile DAW to be always dual booted if you are using Windows - one boot partition for your everyday use and one just for DAW. Do a search in the forum for dual booting and you'll find many discussions on it.

THEN, consider buying a new audio interface. And for a cheap and good option - Echo. Can't go wrong with it.