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Are you a musician or studio engineer? If you are a studio engineer - GET USED TO NOISE IN THE CONTROL ROOM. Just get nice headphones are good close field monitors with a beefy amp. If your control room IS the studio - save your money on noiseproofing your equipment. You should be spending that cash on noiseproofing the studio. If you are a musician, what the hell are you doing screwing around with hard drives and stuff while you are recording? And why would you use a PC to record? Unless you a pro sound card (not SB Pro, a real professional) your sound quality will suck. Even top end SBLive's have shitty sound quality (in comparison with pro gear). Buy a Tascam DAT recorder.