I have a small studio setup but have recently been wanting to switch completely to the PC. I was using an older 8 track Yamaha tape unit, with an effects loop. And just recording one track at a time by sending the stereo out to the sound card on my PC, and using Magix 2005 to record and mixdown.
I am bumming because I can't record multiple tracks live. So I figured I needed a mixer with firewire out to the PC.
I've been looking at the Alesis Multimix16 mixer and its firewire capability to send 8 individual channels back to the PC to be multi track recorded in something like cubase.
However, in researching this unit I found that when the line in channels are sent through an effects loop via 2 auxilliary channels (with send/return), the processed signal (now with effects) never reaches the PC. Only the raw channel signals get with some basic filtering, get sent along the firewire to the PC. So the effects loop here is useless for me in my situation.
I have external effects that I'd like to use and share with others during sessions. What is the better option for providing effects. Something like a patch panel? How do these work? Also, is it normal to have to have an additional preamp before the signal reaches the mixer? My mic levels are crap. Depends on mixer?
Was also wondering if any firewire style mixers send effects track by track to the PC? Anyone know if Mackie 1620 does this?
** update: no the mackie 1620 does not, but if you only need to record one track at a time you could feed the effects return back into an input channel on the mixer and record that channel. (defeats the purpose)
Do I even need a mixer if I'm primarily concerned about getting the individual tracks seperated to the PC with effects applied already?
My problem is really on the input side I guess.
Thanks
I am bumming because I can't record multiple tracks live. So I figured I needed a mixer with firewire out to the PC.
I've been looking at the Alesis Multimix16 mixer and its firewire capability to send 8 individual channels back to the PC to be multi track recorded in something like cubase.
However, in researching this unit I found that when the line in channels are sent through an effects loop via 2 auxilliary channels (with send/return), the processed signal (now with effects) never reaches the PC. Only the raw channel signals get with some basic filtering, get sent along the firewire to the PC. So the effects loop here is useless for me in my situation.
I have external effects that I'd like to use and share with others during sessions. What is the better option for providing effects. Something like a patch panel? How do these work? Also, is it normal to have to have an additional preamp before the signal reaches the mixer? My mic levels are crap. Depends on mixer?
Was also wondering if any firewire style mixers send effects track by track to the PC? Anyone know if Mackie 1620 does this?
** update: no the mackie 1620 does not, but if you only need to record one track at a time you could feed the effects return back into an input channel on the mixer and record that channel. (defeats the purpose)
Do I even need a mixer if I'm primarily concerned about getting the individual tracks seperated to the PC with effects applied already?
My problem is really on the input side I guess.
Thanks
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