Cheap mixer for analog summing..

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Because of my budget... I have to do all of my mixing in the DAW environment.. And I actually prefer this way TBH.

But I wanted to know if it was common, or even advisable to do unorthodox grouping (vocals + drums + horns) etc etc to get my mix down to about 4 busses (my audio interface has 4 outs) so I can route it to a small mixing console...

I really just want to sum everything on a small analog mixer and then dump the main outs of it to a cassette deck..yea yea, I do lo-fi stuff
 
Ordinarily I'd say the drawbacks outweigh the gains when mixing down to a budget mixer or cheaper analog medium, but if lofi is your thing, go for it!

It's not uncommon at all to work in stems if your hardware doesn't have as many channels as you'd need for the whole mix.
For example, drums, rhythms, leads and vocals could take up four pairs on on 8 channel mixer.

Just remember, if you're working in stereo your four outputs only give you two pairs.
 
Thanks Steenamaroo...

One more ??

Would I be able to route all my FX plugins from my DAW to an FX send on the mixing console and use them in real time? Or would I have to apply them ITB?
 
I'm not quite sure what you mean.
You'd either use ITB effects before the mixer, or use hardware effects in the mixer, inline with the mixer, or in the mixers loop.
 
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