Digital Recording---THE MIXER????

[greyman]

Hi ,

My home recording setup has a PIII 500, 512MB RAM,SCSI etc. I use Cubase 5.0,WaveLab 3.0 and dozens other such software along with JV2080, Mo'Phatt etc.
ALESIS Studio 24 is my mixer AND Terratec EWS88MT is my soundcard.
The external mixer(Alesis Studio 24) is used as Inline Monitor only. I don't do any mixing stuff outside the Cubase. I'm used to the Cubase mixer.
FX,EQ ect. are all software(Waves,Spectral Design etc).........no hardware at all !!!

Now I'm gonna convert my home recording set up into a professional studio.....I'll be recording directly to the Hard Disk. I won't be using any DATs for recording or mixing.
Genelec 1032a are my monitors and I want to produce the best quality music. The studio quality music.

My questions are.......

1. DO I NEED ANOTHER EXTERNAL MIXER?
(may be a better one) or the one I'm already using
is okay?

2. DO I NEED A DIGITAL MIXER AT ALL?
If I buy a digital mixer........will it be of any good?



Thanks in advance
greyman

 

[Nashstudio]

I don't know what your budget is but do some reading about PARIS its a great all in one type thing and won't hog your computer because it does its own processing. With that you could mix on the screen or with the physical mixer. If you are going DAW and looking to do it pro PARIS is a great option. As far as stuido quality PARIS is a step in the right direction, IMHO and many pro's it smokes PT mix 24 and costs about 1/4 the price.