Creative Sound Blaster K3+ is a Portable Mixing Board for Today's Online Streamers
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gx-x
Or you can get something semi-professional for 50$ more and say god bye to overpriced creative junk forever. I mean, sure, Creative one is fine, for ~50$ or so.
I got this:
Behringer Xenyx X1222USB - 200$ in US, ~200e in Europe.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XGKK3nEMQR8/maxresdefault.jpg
Ridiric
Thats $70 more not $50, its also a lot larger, and more complicated, this creative offering definitely has its place at that price point, size and easy to read simple layout.
Not everyone needs the very best you know.
stereoman
Personally i'd just spring for an M Audio M Track or Focusrite Scarlett, Creative is not really known for top audio when it comes to Interfaces and at least with a proper interface you can use all the pro audio software, Protools, Logic, Ableton etc
https://www.musicmatter.co.uk/media/gene-bluefoot/m/a/xmaudio_mtrack_2x2m_audio_interface_front.png.pagespeed.ic.UTmClCCzkd.webp
https://www.musicmatter.co.uk/media/gene-bluefoot/f/o/xfocusrite_scarlett_solo_audio_interface_front.png.pagespeed.ic.s3jR837xW3.webp
I bought myself one of these, bit more expensive but the preamps are to die for
Audient iD22
https://images.static-thomann.de/pics/bdb/313951/6893470_800.jpg
nhlkoho
I think you're all missing the point for this. Dedicated interfaces are great and all but most people aren't going to invest in that plus additional software, effects plugins, etc... if they just want to stream or make youtube videos. This has everything built into it.
I'm not saying it's a great piece of hardware either. I have that same Focusrite interface as posted above but it's not the easiest thing to set up if you aren't familiar with audio production. And that Behringer mixer is way overkill for this type of thing.
maikai
Looks perfect for my kid who is interested in getting in to streaming and trying to keep it as simple as possible. The other posts are completely missing the mark of exactly what the target audience is for this
Ridiric
Thats kinda what i was getting at with my post, you kinda explained it better though.
stereoman
Yeah I agree with that, horses for courses I guess but for me I go for quality over simplicity everytime and it's not like Pro Interfaces are that complex these days, it's not like when I had a Digi001 connected to a pci card, or even the firewire stuff, USB makes this stuff a doddle but yeah I see how this makes it simpler for the layman.
GxCx
Reaper is almost for free, including good plugins. There are tutorials how to set everything in two hours. But the deal is with drivers, especially with usb2 if you want good latency, mostly are third party except RME which is another level. Use Focusrite or Audient if you want to go this way. My two cents.
ruthan
Its USB sound card + mixing board or just mixing board?
Venix
ok i am a bit of an audio ...ignorant and to begin with what i consider "Good" audio i am pretty sure a genuine audiophile will have his ears bleeding with in a minute
so here is my question . i currently have the sound Blaster Z and the speakers https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/z533-multimedia-speaker-system personally i am really happy with em loud and i can not notice any distortion on high levels also .. what a mixer like the ones above can offer me ? a) better sound quality ? b)nothing need a whole other level of speakers ? c) something else ?
alanm
If its just regular audio playback, then mixers are no use to you (or me). For better audio, just get better speakers than those.
LocoDiceGR
Good luck to them if this thing have drivers.
Fergutor
Nice...but absolutely out of place: the K3+ is a small portable simple practical device with a specific target audience...that is not. Compare with a similar devices. Or in the same way someone could show a gigantic professional studio mixing console of another brand and say the same unfair out of place biased things. Always the expected cheap anti Creative bias, grabbing on to anything, no matter how fallacious, to attack the brand, because is a fad.
Venix
oh ok i see ! well i am happy for their price perfomance not sure if i would ever get better speakers than going for a vga instead or something XD
slyphnier
everyone have their own opinion but the point here is not about PRO and SIMPLE (starter)
its the price (@ $130) that make some considering just might as well buy better(pro) one
many saying Yamaha MG10XU is the great (if not current best?) mixer, pricing $200... extra$70 to get the best
well i guess it depends on the review, if the creative works and sound nice, then its good
for non-technical ie. make sound perfect etc. mixer itself isnt hard to learn *cmiiw
especially for people just want to make the recording / streaming sound clear/good
all they need to plug and set the volume
well people doing streaming/studio-level-recording might as well better learn about the mixer, so they know how to troubleshoot when they getting issue with the stream
and for people just streaming for fun, i dont think they streaming on PC...most of them will just off streaming from smartphone which dont need anything beside smartphone
TheDeeGee
Also 6 times the size.
gx-x
If creative had made it, it would have been 1200$. So just Chill. If they (youtubers) can't handle 1 day learning curve, they deserve to pay Creative for their crap. My opinion. They also won't get far with their carriers anyways.
Exactly.
illrigger
For pure investment, speakers are without any doubt better that GPUs, because decent speakers, in general, don't go obsolete after 3 years. I'm still using a set of Logitech Z680s that are a decade and a half old, and it would still cost me several hundred dollars to find something better today. You want to avoid anything that relies on your computer (anything USB, basically) and get something that is analog input only, or supports a standard digital connection (TOSLINK or S/PDIF) so that driver stagnation doesn't kill you a few years down the line. You can even find some decent bookshelf speakers and get a standalone receiver on sale or used to drive them so you can upgrade without having to buy the whole thing over a few years down the line.
So basically, if you are happy with what your GPU can do today, think about investing in a good speaker setup. Chances are you'll be using it after the entire PC you are using is in the scrap heap - and probably a few more PCs after it as well.
Venix
i understand and i agree 100% with what you are saying good speakers last decades ! currently i have https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/z533-multimedia-speaker-system they do their job and then some for my needs ! mind you i am fully aware by no means they can compete with with decent bookshelf speakers other than that i am 100% happy with em i can feel the base and to me the sound seems crystal clear ...so my plan about the z533 .... i will keep em till they break down really ! i got em 2 years ago when my https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/product/surround-sound-speakers-z506?crid=1588 died .... and i went to 2.1 instead of 5.1 again because ....who was i kidding ? i had all of em on my desk anyway :P
