James Tree
New member
Hello!
I have the blessing of my beautiful wife to get a 1/2" Tascam r2r to finish my project! (Yessssssss!) I've been working with a Tascam 424mkii for the past year, and since I am recording everything myself, 8 tracks would greatly improve my workflow. I have been reading about all the mixers that came out around the same time as the 38 and tsr8 (m208, 308, 30, etc) and just like the tape machine, the prices for those are up and up.
I just acquired an ART pro channel strip (first version), and since I record by myself, I am not sure how robust a mixer I really need. In other words: I have a 'decent' preamp, so I would just need to route signals. And since my experience is only with a portastudio, I am not too familiar with what I would need or don't need in a mixer. There will likely be internal bouncing happening to free up tracks for more layers.
I have the above mentioned preamp that has a built in compressor and eq, a dual channel compressor, and two dual channel FX processors at the moment. I can use my mackie 1202 for control room stuff. I would like at least the mid EQ to be sweepable since I am used to having that on the portastudio.
Maybe something not as vintage as the mixers I listed (or less trendy= cheaper)? I really should not be spending too much more money on everything, (less than $400) but I also don't want to buy something to regret.
Lay it on me (please
I have the blessing of my beautiful wife to get a 1/2" Tascam r2r to finish my project! (Yessssssss!) I've been working with a Tascam 424mkii for the past year, and since I am recording everything myself, 8 tracks would greatly improve my workflow. I have been reading about all the mixers that came out around the same time as the 38 and tsr8 (m208, 308, 30, etc) and just like the tape machine, the prices for those are up and up.
I just acquired an ART pro channel strip (first version), and since I record by myself, I am not sure how robust a mixer I really need. In other words: I have a 'decent' preamp, so I would just need to route signals. And since my experience is only with a portastudio, I am not too familiar with what I would need or don't need in a mixer. There will likely be internal bouncing happening to free up tracks for more layers.
I have the above mentioned preamp that has a built in compressor and eq, a dual channel compressor, and two dual channel FX processors at the moment. I can use my mackie 1202 for control room stuff. I would like at least the mid EQ to be sweepable since I am used to having that on the portastudio.
Maybe something not as vintage as the mixers I listed (or less trendy= cheaper)? I really should not be spending too much more money on everything, (less than $400) but I also don't want to buy something to regret.
Lay it on me (please