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Hi All
I want to change my beloved Allen & Heath ZED 12FX for a digital mixer. My main requests are:
- Studio use, not live gigs
- I need the best mic preamps for the money I can invest. I’ll be running 4 permanent xlr mics into the mixer, this number could be expanded to as many as 8 XLR inputs in some more extreme situations.
- MULTICHANNEL. I’ll want to record each XLR input and the skype feed / sound effects into its own track in my DAW. I also love the ability to record the show on an SD card or USB key.
- Studio use for recording my podcast (so ability to run mix-minus with Skype, Aux Send post-fader).
- Ability to record music from my synth/piano. My synth outputs are L and R 1/4" TS (unbalanced)
- I will use it as audio interface in my MacbookPro, I am searching for good quality conversion. I’ll be connecting the mixer to my laptop via USB and will have both skype callers and a sound board sending voice and sound from the PC into the mixer.
- Ability to connect 2 or even 3 external audio sources (Ipads and Iphones for effects and music)
- I’m expanding into video and plan to run an output from the mixer to a DLSR camera to add the fully mixed sound into the video recording. From everything I’ve read this will need to be an analog output ending with a 3.5mm input into the camera.
- I’ll also have the headphones output from the mixer running into a headphone amp to split the signal for all of our hosts in order to monitor as we record.
- Ease of use
Options I contemplate:
Midas M32R
Allen & Heath Chrome Edition Qu-16
Presonus Studiolive 16 series III
Behringer X32
Yamaha TF1
Thanks a lot
I want to change my beloved Allen & Heath ZED 12FX for a digital mixer. My main requests are:
- Studio use, not live gigs
- I need the best mic preamps for the money I can invest. I’ll be running 4 permanent xlr mics into the mixer, this number could be expanded to as many as 8 XLR inputs in some more extreme situations.
- MULTICHANNEL. I’ll want to record each XLR input and the skype feed / sound effects into its own track in my DAW. I also love the ability to record the show on an SD card or USB key.
- Studio use for recording my podcast (so ability to run mix-minus with Skype, Aux Send post-fader).
- Ability to record music from my synth/piano. My synth outputs are L and R 1/4" TS (unbalanced)
- I will use it as audio interface in my MacbookPro, I am searching for good quality conversion. I’ll be connecting the mixer to my laptop via USB and will have both skype callers and a sound board sending voice and sound from the PC into the mixer.
- Ability to connect 2 or even 3 external audio sources (Ipads and Iphones for effects and music)
- I’m expanding into video and plan to run an output from the mixer to a DLSR camera to add the fully mixed sound into the video recording. From everything I’ve read this will need to be an analog output ending with a 3.5mm input into the camera.
- I’ll also have the headphones output from the mixer running into a headphone amp to split the signal for all of our hosts in order to monitor as we record.
- Ease of use
Options I contemplate:
Midas M32R
Allen & Heath Chrome Edition Qu-16
Presonus Studiolive 16 series III
Behringer X32
Yamaha TF1
Thanks a lot
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