analog inputs

[henry_mullis]

OK,
I am a Cool Edit Pro user and am still somewhat new to the whole computer recording scene. Anyway, I mainly record drums and I have a plain soundblaster soundcard. The only way I have devised to record drums (let's say 8 microphones) is to run a mixing board to the line-in jack on the soundcard. I then use 8 mics and record them all to one track on CEP. I am looking for a way to record each mic as a seperate channel (So I can edit and enhance each drum individually). I was thinking that maybe the Delta 1010 would be a way to accomplish this (since it has 8 analog inputs). Anyway, I would appreciate someone's response.
Thanks


P.S. I am wondering if it is possible to assign each different input to a different track on my software (cool edit pro) and record them all at the same time?

 

[Rochey]

okay 2 things....

(a) -- I'm not sure if cool edit pro is really the best choice. You would be better getting a proper sequencer. My experience of Cool Edit is more of a editing programme, rather than a multitracking sequencer. Maybe you should consider N-Tracks. It's cheap and it's easy to use.

(b) as for recording drums, the 1010 would make fine choice, but you'd need something to bring the microphone levels up to Line levels. A mixer would do the trick, but you'd need one with direct outs. (as far as I know)

 

[postalblue]

i agree with rochey, cep is not really a good choice for multitrack recording.
as for the 1010, if it doesn't have 8 preamps, you won't be able to record with 8 mics into it. you'd have to get an 8-buss mixer (or two 4-buss mixers) to do that. or a soundcard/interface with 8 preamps, like aardvark's q10 or digidesign's 001.

adriano