External Mixer?

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New to the forum, and I was wondering what advantages there are to having an external mixer like the Tascam 428 over the mixing utilities that came with my Sonar 4 Producer?

I've seen some postings that rave over having the actual "feel" of mixing, but if I'm not interested in that, is it necessary to invest the money in it?

I'm thinking I'm just a bit confused on what the external controls do. I don't have one, but on websites and the forum, it looks like I can use the Tascam 428 to adjust the gain, but I see little else. Am I missing something?

Thanks guys.

Thom
 
guitarmonkus said:
New to the forum, and I was wondering what advantages there are to having an external mixer like the Tascam 428 over the mixing utilities that came with my Sonar 4 Producer?

I've seen some postings that rave over having the actual "feel" of mixing, but if I'm not interested in that, is it necessary to invest the money in it?

I'm thinking I'm just a bit confused on what the external controls do. I don't have one, but on websites and the forum, it looks like I can use the Tascam 428 to adjust the gain, but I see little else. Am I missing something?

Thanks guys.

Thom
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External mixers have sliders that you can push up and down, plus they have lights that blink.

Have you ever seen a real studio without blinky lights?
 
lol ^^^^

anyways i find the big difference between hardware and software are the feel thing as he says, which seems to be very important.........But you have you buy racks wit the shit somestimes to use external effects, where as wit software you can get a shit load of effects out here for free........

I say go wit a usb mixer, I wish I woulda thought about that first before I got a plain jane analog
 
Ford Van should be in to answer this shortly :D

Last week he was on his plugins v RAM rant, this week it's how mixing outboard nowadays can't get you as good results as MITB can :rolleyes:
 
I use a digital mixer. It's a Tascam tm-d1000. There are 16 sliders and more blinky lights than a christmas tree.
 
guitarmonkus said:
New to the forum, and I was wondering what advantages there are to having an external mixer like the Tascam 428 over the mixing utilities that came with my Sonar 4 Producer?

I've seen some postings that rave over having the actual "feel" of mixing, but if I'm not interested in that, is it necessary to invest the money in it?

I'm thinking I'm just a bit confused on what the external controls do. I don't have one, but on websites and the forum, it looks like I can use the Tascam 428 to adjust the gain, but I see little else. Am I missing something?

Thanks guys.

Thom
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There are alot of reasons to use mixers for a daw. In no particular order:

1. Blinky lights........gotta love em
2. Lots of pre's for lots of mics
3. Zero latency monitoring
4. Can't look like a pro without
5. You're neighbor said you need one
6. You have a knob/slider fetish
7. You can tell all-girl bands that you need help riding the faders
8. Your studio does'nt have a sufficient heating system
9. You own one and you'll be damned if it goes to waste
10........I'm gonna shutup now cause I don't know what I'm talking about

:D
 
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