hook up multiple in/outs

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I have Mackie 1402 and want to buy new soundcard with 8 ins/outs so I can record several channels on several tracks. I know I can use the inserts as direct out to the soundcard, but whats the benefit of having 8 outputs? At this moment I'm only using stereo out from my soundcard and that'll do the job. Please give me some usefull tips.
 
I'm not quite shure, I was a newbie just 5 posts before this, but -and older members pleas correct me if I'm wrong- that you can mix outside the computer with a mixing board, and you can have more control over your mixes.

I hope no one laughs at me :p
 
Flapo, you are correct. In addition you can tie these 8 outs to external effects, etc...
 
Thanks for reply, but can you give me a few possible routings?
output souncard->effect device->macky etc...
 
Cats,

> I have Mackie 1402 and want to buy new soundcard with 8 ins/outs ... but whats the benefit of having 8 outputs? <

No advantage really. Since you said "sound card" I assume you're using software to record, so that's where you'll do your mixing and EQ etc. Multiple outputs are useful only if you want to patch individual tracks to play back through outboard gear. But that loses much of the advantage of recording in software: saving the exact state of a mix with all effects and knob settings, and full automation.

When I set up project studios I send each mixer's direct out to one channel of the sound card's input. But I connect only the first stereo output pair from the sound card for monitoring and playback. If everything coming out of the computer is on one stereo pair, then you know you are hearing the exact mix being created in the program. And then you can bounce to a single Wave file to create the final mix, confident it's the exact same mix you just heard.

--Ethan
 
And when I want to use external effects to? Lets say I have a good reverb (external) and I want to use it on a recorded vocal track, how do I record the result back to the computer? I gues I have to asign that track to an output->reverb->mixingboard->back in to soundcard? I think that can couse some latency problems.
 
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