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That card there is a PCI card which will not work in your laptop. This is where the extra money comes in, because it will have to be either a firewire card or a USB card. The limitation with Laptops is that as a rule of thumb, all laptop sound cards are junk. Very few laptops deviate from this...

Probably what your best bet would be an MAudio USB 2496, they sell at MusiciansFriend.com for about $200.

GASP! All of the guys in my family know how to solder quite well (we all have been in the electronics industry at one time or another), so when I wire mine buddy, you better believe I'm recruiting them!

There is nothing wrong with that, I do that myself. My only concern was with the drums. The quality of the sound coming out of a Mackie mixer will be very good. Mackie makes a good product. The quality concers would be coming from your sound card. The only way to test this would be to actually...

Hope you don't have to move it! :D

Oh! I thought you meant pounds... :D Yes, you can mix it through the mixer to a stereo. If that's the case, then all you will need is your mixer and a cable to plug 2 mono 1/4" cables into a stereo 1/8" cable. Doing it this way though, you must have your mix the way you like it when you record...

Well, $500 British Pounds is about $800 USD. The mixer will provide all the pre-amps you would need. Most people use a mixer for the headphone mix and use each channel's aux sends to route the signal to the sound card. Unfortunately, to do multi-track you really will need to get a sound card. If...

I don't run any fiber for anything in my studio yet so I'm good there (thank God). I have never run fiber before but I have heard the connectors and couplings are a pain. Sounds like you have been in the game longer than I have. I started pulling cable in the early 90's when I was a teenager and...

We did this with a really nice Lexicon on a floor tom on my band's first CD. Deep dark reverb for a BAM BAM BAM that sounded like it was backed by thunder... I liked it :D

Ok. I am by no means an authority on mixers, but in my experience I have had good results with Mackie equipment. What were you looking to spend? One of your better options for doing thos would actually be a MOTU 828mkII. It's a firewire card that has 8 analog line ins and 2 analog Mic ins with...

What type of recording are you going to be doing? Live sound to a stereo mix or are you going to do multi-track?

For that then you'd want to run the exciter a little hotter than normal. Only problem is that it eats another track. :( I think his recorder is just a "Do-it-all" box, so that may be a limitation.

You have a direct link to that? I'm not seeing it anywhere...

You would do this to smooth the effect out or have a real-time wet/dry mixer?

Eh, good thought. I take it you don't like them, eh? I'm not a big fan of them either. I have only ever made 1 purchase a long time ago and paid for it on a credit card. Read: PAID FOR IT... I placed a web order a couple months ago and several days go by and I don't get it or hear anything about...

Um, overstated, I'd leave that one alone... Now understating, I'd be all over that. :D Order it over the phone and complain your way into the lower price. I don't think there's any way to take advantage of them saying it costs mor, unless you buy it from them for more and then sue them for...

90% of my wiring mess is computer cable! USB, Parallel, monitor etc... I only have 2 wires running from my rack to my DAW. Stereo In and Stereo Out :D This soon will be changing though as I am getting a Digi 001 this weekend along with scads of other gear, and I will have to adopt some of the...

I was just saying the rails as an upgrade. Heck. You could build one for free if you do what Dom said and get some 1x's from Home Depot's free bin if you had some screws...

:) I was just throwing that out there for another option for a DAW. I hear they're very good! :D

Oh yeah... Don't forget the black spray paint, or semi-gloss if you use house paint... :D