How to record many sources at once.

[Chewie]

Excellent!

I figured it woul either work or blow something up.

 

[abolit66]

Get yourself Mackie Onyx 1220. You'll have 12 inputs hooked to your PC thru firewire card. I just upgraded my PC and it works great.
Peace.

 

[Modern_Talking]

Any of the MG mixers from the 12/4 upwards will get you 6 outs.

The MG12/4 is known as a 4-bus mixer because it has 2 seperate stereo signals, (or 4 mono outputs). These are called the Stereo and Group outs. Switches on the mixer's channel strips let you route each input to either the stereo or the group bus. Or both. Or neither. The pan control on each channel strip lets you send the signal to either the left or right channel on the output bus. Using the buses like this will get you 4 seperate mono tracks into your computer.

Quick question .. But when you have effect units hooked up to your aux (reverbe,delay,chorus <aux 1,2 and 3>) and you set the amount of aux on each channel, you don't hear the effects through the buss outputs or sub-group outputs. thats why i stay away from the bus groups and connect the main outs of the mixing board to my recorder. that way i can hear my effects that i used on all the channels during mixdown and then do my final record.

It would be nice it there was a way to let the effects also go into the sub-groups and then i can have better control in doing the final mix.
by the way. i have a mackie 1604vlz mixer. so it has 4 sub-groups faders.

 

[bh4554]

the mackie onyx mixers are a very good idea but i think it depends what kind of pre-amp quality and analgoue to digital conversion quality you are looking for becuase the mackie's although very easy to use and setup and freindly on the wallet for what they give you are not on the same quality as the firepod in terms of pre's and a/dconverters. be careful not buy hear that's too cheap cos inthe end you'll probably only sell it and upgrade but i suppose that all depends what you want it for really!

 

[Bulls Hit]

Quick question .. But when you have effect units hooked up to your aux (reverbe,delay,chorus <aux 1,2 and 3>) and you set the amount of aux on each channel, you don't hear the effects through the buss outputs or sub-group outputs. thats why i stay away from the bus groups and connect the main outs of the mixing board to my recorder. that way i can hear my effects that i used on all the channels during mixdown and then do my final record.

It would be nice it there was a way to let the effects also go into the sub-groups and then i can have better control in doing the final mix.
by the way. i have a mackie 1604vlz mixer. so it has 4 sub-groups faders.

Yeah that's not an issue for me as I don't use the mixer's aux bus for effects while recording. I like to add effects in the box while mixing