Buy mixer w/ current 1010LT vs. buying a Firepod?

[davus]

Hi guys.

I have a 1010LT that I have never really gotten the opportunity to make much use out of for various reasons that I won't go into. It is time to start recording my ideas and I'm wondering what would be the best route to go at this point.

I don't have a mixer and I hear that the 1010LT pre's are ok at best. So if I'm really going to get off the ground here and make full use of the card's capabilities I would have to pick up a mixer (preferably with 8 or more pre's) and some cables to run from the inserts or the Hosa recording snake which seems pretty cool.

The other option that has me intrigued is for maybe a little more than picking up a decent mixer would be to pick up a Firepod to record with. It seems to have any of the features I would need as well. One benefit of this route is that I could use it with my laptop or with my desktop that I'll be setting up as a dedicated recording machine. A little more versatility.

I'm really quite ignorant when it comes to recording, but it is my understanding that going from the inserts in a mixer out to the Delta card would pretty much bypass most of the features of the mixers and basically send the signal out un-eq'ed, etc. from just after the pre's on the mixer anyway. That being (I think) the case, then it would come more down to which device would have higher quality pre's, I think as the mixer itself wouldn't have much of a function for me beyond that.

Also if I got the Firepod, maybe I could sell the 1010LT on eBay for a little cash for a condenser or something?

Anyway, any advice or general clearing up of mistakes in my thought process would be great. I welcome any other suggestions as well.

Thanks.

 

[Minion]

Hi guys.

I have a 1010LT that I have never really gotten the opportunity to make much use out of for various reasons that I won't go into. It is time to start recording my ideas and I'm wondering what would be the best route to go at this point.

I don't have a mixer and I hear that the 1010LT pre's are ok at best. So if I'm really going to get off the ground here and make full use of the card's capabilities I would have to pick up a mixer (preferably with 8 or more pre's) and some cables to run from the inserts or the Hosa recording snake which seems pretty cool.

The other option that has me intrigued is for maybe a little more than picking up a decent mixer would be to pick up a Firepod to record with. It seems to have any of the features I would need as well. One benefit of this route is that I could use it with my laptop or with my desktop that I'll be setting up as a dedicated recording machine. A little more versatility.

I'm really quite ignorant when it comes to recording, but it is my understanding that going from the inserts in a mixer out to the Delta card would pretty much bypass most of the features of the mixers and basically send the signal out un-eq'ed, etc. from just after the pre's on the mixer anyway. That being (I think) the case, then it would come more down to which device would have higher quality pre's, I think as the mixer itself wouldn't have much of a function for me beyond that.

Also if I got the Firepod, maybe I could sell the 1010LT on eBay for a little cash for a condenser or something?

Anyway, any advice or general clearing up of mistakes in my thought process would be great. I welcome any other suggestions as well.

Thanks.

Why not just get a Rack of OK Preamps?? Like one of those 8 Ch jobbies that you can get for a few Hundred bucks and then you would have a seperate pre for every channel of the Delta 1010......

another simular option is to get a Mixer that also has Direct outs from the preamps so you can use the preamps in the Mixer without haveing to use it"s mixer capibilities.....


I use a combination of both a Cheap Mixer and some Fairly good preamps that I built and I get useable recordings.....


Cheers

 

[dgatwood]

Unless you need all 8 outputs of the FIREPOD, I'd strongly recommend the MOTU 8Pre over the FIREPOD. Just my $0.02.

 

[davus]

Unless you need all 8 outputs of the FIREPOD, I'd strongly recommend the MOTU 8Pre over the FIREPOD. Just my $0.02.

Could you elaborate on this? Maybe in PM if you don't want to go into it in this thread?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Carter]

Unless you need all 8 outputs of the FIREPOD, I'd strongly recommend the MOTU 8Pre over the FIREPOD. Just my $0.02.

Yeah I would like the hear this one too

 

[pacman9000]

I'm really quite ignorant when it comes to recording, but it is my understanding that going from the inserts in a mixer out to the Delta card would pretty much bypass most of the features of the mixers and basically send the signal out un-eq'ed, etc. from just after the pre's on the mixer anyway. That being (I think) the case, then it would come more down to which device would have higher quality pre's, I think as the mixer itself wouldn't have much of a function for me beyond that.

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[omtayslick]

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ON THE MACKIE ONYX MIXERS http://cachepe.zzounds.com/media/onyx1220_om-93aa54497effc7f708d342fd87fec4ed.pdf

^^^THE RECORDING OUTS ARE POST INPUT-GAIN BUT PRE EQ, PRE LOW-CUT SWITCH SO IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING ALREADY RECORDED ON COMPUTER AND YOU JUST WANT TO ADD VOCALS WITH LOW-CUT AND A BIT OF EQ YOU CAN'T DO THAT, CRARRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYZY MAN, WHO ARE THESE PACIFIC NORTHWEST FUKKKNECKS!!!!`1

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[pacman9000]

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