Delta 1010 Question

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Hello all,

New to this forum and I have to say that it is a pretty cool site!

Anyways, I have just started playing the guitar about 1 year ago and I have the following questions:

First my scenario:

I have appprox $500 to spend on a soundcard, breakout box etc.

I have 1 electric/accoustic, with my cousin providing the other electric/accoustic. Also, he has a small Fender amp that only has 1 input for a guitar and 1 for a mic.

I guess my questions are, will I be able to use the Delta 1010 to have both of us playing our electric accoustics and 1 or 2 mics at the same time?

Can I just hook up all of these things to the Delta 1010 and purchase a copy of Sonar and be able to record 3-4 tracks simultaneously?

Or do you need to go from the guitar to the amp to the Delta?

I'm not to sure if I need a mixer as my understanding is that's what Sonar is for.

Any vocal mics that will work well with this setup without breaking the bank?

Lots of questions :)

Thanks in advance,

Lunarist
 
The 1010 will offer you multiple inputs and is a nice unit. You will however need mic and guitar preamps. A mixer would do the trick or Preamp boxes. You can also look into interfaces that offer preamps built-in to eliminate a mixer or external preamp purchase.
Im not a user of Sonar so I dont know its capabilities on simultaneous track recording, but more than likely it will.
 
Thanks for the reply. My electric/accoustic has a built in pre-amp I believe. It has a 9 volt battery, with a 3 band eq. Am I to assume that this could be used as the pre-amp and go straight to the Delta?

Thanks,

Lunarist
 
Still, get yourself a preamp like the Audio Buddy by M-Audio also. $79 for 2 channels. You need to be able to tweak your input levels. A small Mackie type mixer would be even better as you could send your input signal thru it and run your monitor outs thru it also, not to mention headphones (output 1-2 on the 1010).

I use the 1010 and Sonar. Both really do the job for me. I record at 24-bit, use software plugins and have used both Windows 2000 and XP.

Good Luck
 
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