hd24 and cubase

[backwoodsstudio]

I have an hd24 which I love and am trying to figure out if something is possible.

I want to ditch my analog desk completely and replace it with some good 8 channel digital mic pre's. The mic pre's would be the front end of the hd24 and the hd24 would output to my DAW via the 3 optical outs. What I want to know is if it is possible to to monitor the signal from the hd24 in cubase.

For example: I have 8 channels of drums going through the pre to the hd24 and into the computer. I would monitor each channel through a cubase mixer
-What I need to know is if I can monitor the signal this way?
-If so will I be able to engage effects and eq's in cubase and hear them on the monitored signal?

The general idea here is to get rid of my noisy board and get alot of the junk out of my signal path. I would use cubase as my tracking mixer and then tranfer everything into cubase to mix it on the computer. In my head it seems to make sense but I wonder if anyone has tried it with success?

Thanks for any input, Mike

[Track Rat]

I have an HD24. What noisey board do you have?

[backwoodsstudio]

I have behringer eurodesk 9000. It's a total piece of crap...the mic pre's are lousy, the eq's are noisy and in general it just sound dirty.

[Track Rat]

I'm using a StudioMaster right now but I'm looking for a new console. Either a new Ghost or maybe a used hi end console of some kind. I don't use the board mic pre's any way, I rely on stand alone mic pre's for the most part. Personally, I'd stay with an analog console of some kind. It makes monitoring with the HD SO much easier and intuitive. When you're done tracking you can make an FTP transfer of your tracks into a PC thru a NIC card and open them in your software multitracker of you choice. Personally I use a MOTU 2408 between thr HD and PC. I tweek my tracks in either Cakewalk or Vegas but I send them back through the HD to the analog console for mixing.

[MiXit-G]

I tweek my tracks in either Cakewalk or Vegas but I send them back through the HD to the analog console for mixing.

Why? outboard signal processing? then back to PC to burn?

[Track Rat]

For one reason only. It just sounds much better than pure software mixing.

[MiXit-G]

But to and from PC is always via FTP?

What do you mix down to or master to?

[cavedog101]

Get a ghost...i use HD24-Ghost 32X8.....nice nice very nice....