Echo Gina 3G PCI Audio Interface

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Enhance your at-home studio with this high-quality, low-cost interface, including 2 universal inputs with mic preamps and 6 analog outs.

Gina3G is the third generation of our budget priced, professional quality digital audio recorder. The original Gina premiered seven years ago to critical acclaim and since then we've been perfecting the art of making high quality recording products at affordable prices. The new Gina3G brings you the best features of Gina24, but with better converters, dual mic preamps, and MIDI!!

Gina3G is perfect for the budget-minded musician who wants to get into digital recording without sacrificing quality for price. You won't need a mixer or studio monitors to get started here. Gina3G has all you need: 2 universal inputs with mic preamps, 6 balanced analog outputs, and a headphone output. ADAT lightpipe, optical and coaxial S/PDIF, and MIDI are included as well; so as your studio grows, Gina3G will be able to work with all your new gear. It comes with a 8' cable and PCI card that connects to the audio interface. Gina3G is compatible with PCI and PCI-X (3.3 or 5 volt) motherboards.

Hardware Features

- 2 auto-sensing universal inputs (mic/guitar/line): 110dB (A-weighted) dynamic range
- 6 balanced 1/4" analog outputs: 114dB (A-weighted) dynamic range, +4dBu/-10dBV nominal levels
- S/PDIF I/O (coax & optical) at 24-bit/96kHz
- ADAT optical digital I/O
- MIDI I/O
- Stereo headphone output with volume knob
- Sync via S/PDIF, ADAT, or MTC
- Supports full duplex 10 channel in, 14 channel out operation
- Heavy-duty aluminum case
- PCI bus mastering interface: Bus powered, works with PCI-X read more (3.3/5 volt) & Power Mac G5
- A/D & D/A converters in external breakout box
- 56-bit / 100mHz DSP for digital mixing
- Near zero latency hardware monitoring

Software Features

- Software console for monitoring, metering, and setting levels
- Low-latency drivers support all major pro audio software
- Low Latency ASIO 2.0
- GSIF 2.0 (Gigastudio 3 w/ low latency MIDI)
- WDM kernel streaming mode
- CoreAudio & CoreMIDI
- Surround sound support with 5.1 & 7.1 output w/ delay management
- AC3, DTS, & WMA9 output over S/PDIF
- SuperChannel(TM) resource sharing
- Split I/O between multiple applications
- PureWave(TM) mode for bit accurate digital I/O

Free Audio Software

Tracktion is a revolutionary, easy-to-use music production application that contains everything most people will ever need to professionally record and mix music on a Mac or PC - without all the hassles and limitations of other audio software. Gina3G comes bundled with Tracktion version 2.2.
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System Requirements

* PC System requirements:
Windows ME/2000/XP/x64/Vista
Genuine Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon CPU
Motherboard with Intel, AMD, Via, or NVIDIA chipset
256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)

* Mac System Requirements
Mac OS X
PCI and PCIX compatible G5. (PCI Express not compatible.)
256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 805-684-4593

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. (40 ratings)
Submitted January 11, 2007 by a customer from yahoo.com

"Echo 3G Gina"

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Very good interface, a bunch of I/O's. Could've used more things, samples and maybe something else in it.
Sound
Great ananlog to digital/digital to audio converters. Sound has lots of headroom to work with and is crisp and clear. Still working with it and experimenting with microphone positions but hasn't failed to do its job. Preamps also work like a charm and have no humming like other interfaces face.
Features
The accessories were the basic assembly of the equipment and it came with Traction 1. Only gripe is that it didnt come with more programs / plugins. Also Traction 1 you have to e-mail the company in order to get the activation code.
Ease of Use
Took me all 20 minutes to hook up. Unplug computer put card, put drivers, reconnect blah blah easy peezy lemon squeezy.
Quality
Very nice metal case for the breakout box. Cable to computer is very strong not very flismy and the LEDs and everything works properly. Only thing wrong is Im scared when I get rough with it because the knobs look like they will pop off.
Value
Very good price for its money.
Manufacturer Support
Great Product = Good Support havent had to contact them yet.
The Wow Factor
Its metal and silver, cold as ice.

Musical Background:

Active Musician

Musical Style:

Rap / Hip Hop
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