Do you think it will sound good for recording

[MetalHead84]

So me and my band are planing on buying a little PA System for small show and our practice room. We don't want something too expensive, since we are just starting and we don't have any experience with sound/recording

I was wondering, will it be good to use the mixer to record with it ?

The PA System we will probably get is a Phonic-Powerpod-740-Plus-S715

Or perhaps the 410 if we don't find a drummer for now.

Sorry if I don't post any link, I can't since I don't have 5 posts, but if you look on musiciansfriend.com you can search for those 2 PA

 

[suprstar]

It'll work fine, but you'll only get a stereo mix, not each channel individually. That means you can't mix later, you get one chance to do a good performance. You'll have to dial in your sound and do a perfect performance, or play/record 1 instrument at a time until you have everything tracked.

 

[MetalHead84]

Anyway it's really just to have something for the mic and perhaps record ourself while we play to hear or error later, and have a copy if ever we compose some song.
Perhaps later if we get better we will buy something better to record ourself

 

[suprstar]

Technically you could record a live performance with it, but your mix would be terrible. I've recorded off the board before with my band, just out of curiosity. A typical board tape for us has loud vox, loud kick, and a little snare, cuz that's all we mic. Halfstacks are loud enuf, so we dont mic em. As a result, there's no guitars or bass other than bleed from other mics, and it's such a poor mix you cant even evaluate the performance or anything.

 

[Rokket]

It can be done, but you will have to do a lot of rerouting because a lot of live PA mixers aren't set up for monitoring. You are looking at spending a lot of money just on cabling and snakes. I can't seem to be able to access Musician's Friend right now, and I am not familiar with that particular PA, but a lot of them don't have quiet pre amps. It's not really a necessity in a live setting as it would be in a recording atmosophere.

A Yamaha MG10/2 mixer is less than $100. It might be worth looking into. 6 mono and 2 stereo inputs, and two busses. And they make a 12/4 and 16/8, but of course they cost a bit more.