Alesis MultiMix

You'll need to update your Cubase to take full advantage of it. I think LE only records 4 tracks at a time straight off the cd, and 8 tracks max if you apply all the updates. That's a decent little unit, but no inserts, so you cant track and give the musician fx without recording them. Ie, you can't un-do the vox compression later. Or mess with aux'es, and you won't have one for every track. Or you could try messing with the latency issues of DAW plugin monitoring, which I've never done, sounds like a headache to me...


http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--PHOHELIX18FWMKII

I have a Phonix Helix 18, which is almost exactly the same, 16 channel mixer+fw interface, + fx. And it DOES have inserts, so when you can track you can monitor wet and record dry. (I'm a HUGE advocate of that..) It also has a couple sub groups too. Brand new for $400 shipped. It's cheap, like Behringer, but Alesis isn't much of a step up (if any) imo. I've been using it for a couple months and I like it a lot.
 
suprstar said:
You'll need to update your Cubase to take full advantage of it. I think LE only records 4 tracks at a time straight off the cd, and 8 tracks max if you apply all the updates. That's a decent little unit, but no inserts, so you cant track and give the musician fx without recording them. Ie, you can't un-do the vox compression later. Or mess with aux'es, and you won't have one for every track. Or you could try messing with the latency issues of DAW plugin monitoring, which I've never done, sounds like a headache to me...


http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--PHOHELIX18FWMKII

I have a Phonix Helix 18, which is almost exactly the same, 16 channel mixer+fw interface, + fx. And it DOES have inserts, so when you can track you can monitor wet and record dry. (I'm a HUGE advocate of that..) It also has a couple sub groups too. Brand new for $400 shipped. It's cheap, like Behringer, but Alesis isn't much of a step up (if any) imo. I've been using it for a couple months and I like it a lot.
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I don't 100% follow lol. Kind of new to all of this. The mixer you're suggesting, the Phonix Helix 18, will it be able to multi tracK? That's what I am looking for in a mixer right now. And what's the difference between

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Phonic-Helix-Boa..._trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247#ebayphotohosting

and

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Phonic-18-Input-...VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247
 
Yes, they can multitrack all 16 channels to your DAW, but Cubase LE itself can only record 4 or 8 simultaneous tracks, depending on version. I upgraded to Cubase SX3 and now I can record 18 at a time if I want (16 tracks + 2 main mix). And samedaymusic will sell it for $399 + free shipping, so it'll be cheaper than ebay. Samedaymusic has great support too,
 
I also have the multimix. It has worked great, I've recorded 3 albums with it and it has done the job just fine.

Only issue is that you can't record the aux sends. But it sounds like you're not at that point. Cubase LE has worked great as well.

So there you go.
 
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