Noobie question for mixers/recording drums

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You didn't say how much processing power your computer had, what kind of drive and what speed and what other equipment you had. You need at least an 8 channel AD/DA converter to do what you want. Changing mixers won't help until you have a way to run all those mikes into the computer. USB will handle it but your computer might not be up to it. I run an ASUS laptop with an i7 Sandy Bridge co-processor into an M-Audio eight channel converter. It handles everything just fine.
Rod Norman
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gixxer_25 said:
Hello everyone! As you can tell I am totally new to this....1 post, YAY!

I have a 6 piece set that i am currently mic'ing with a Yamaha MG166CX-USB board and Audix mics then trying to record into either garage band or Cubase LE 5. I unfortunately have found out that my mixer will only send over a mixed stereo signal rather than individual channels like I was hoping. I have a couple of buddies out in California that want to work on a project and need me to throw down some tracks for them. I really want to be able to record individual channels from my 10 mics... 4 toms, 1 kick, 2 overheads, 2 on snare, and 1 on hi-hats. Can I still do that with what I have and just figure a way around or do i need to buy a different board? I keep reading posts from 2010 saying that USB cant handle it...is thsi still true or has technology now allowed for this?

Thanks again!
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