VF 80 and a mixer?

[mrmope]

I have a VF 80 and need to record real drums. With the VF 80 you can only record 2 tracks at once. I want to use 4 mics to record the drums and was thinking I need a mixer. I have 2 outboard pre's that I would prefer to use instead of the mixers pre's. I have been looking at a Behringer UB 8 channel mixer, so, my question is would this mixer do what I need it to do?

[billisa]

My sense is, yes, the mixer will do what you want it to do. But if you want to use the 2 external pre's, then you're cutting back to 2-track at once recording, no?

[mrmope]

I was thinking I could use my 2 external pre's and 2 pre's from the mixer, reason being I only have 2 single input pre's, but at least I could record using 4 mics onto the 2 tracks of the VF 80.
I hope this makes some sort of sense, and thanks for the help.

[billisa]

Originally posted by mrmope
I was thinking I could use my 2 external pre's and 2 pre's from the mixer, reason being I only have 2 single input pre's, but at least I could record using 4 mics onto the 2 tracks of the VF 80.
I hope this makes some sort of sense, and thanks for the help.

Sure, that'd work. But I think there's a bit of redundancy here. The 2 external pre's will simply be taking the place of 2 of the ones built-in to the mixer, right? As it stands, with an 8-channel mixer, you can have 8 inputs mixed down to 2 that are then put into the VF80. The external pre's don't give you any extra channels (I think), unless you have a way of connecting them that makes 10 channels coming through the mixer instead of 8.