I feel like i only need my mixer for show now

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Nick The Man said:
This thread is turning into a very informative one if I do say. It really is a totally different ball game when you are the musician coming into the studio. They want to see all the things that they see in pictures of their favorite band in the studio. Therefore, I might just have a huge monitor mixer. Really, I might juse use it for as many ridiculus reasons that I can, just so I feel that it has some purpose in the stuido.

A control surface does not seem to important to me. I do not see too many benefits from a sound quality standpoint. Maybe someone can change my mind, but they do not seem nessicary.
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They aren't "necessary" -- At least to me, they are just preferable to mousing everything. They are a convenience.
 
i've got a 24 channel Mackie SR*24. it only gets called into service when i need to mic toms or have a bunch of DI's or something that need recording that i can't handle with my outboard.....or it gets used for headphone sends/mixes. outside of that, it sees very little use. but ya know, it just doesn't feel like a studio without it.

i'm with pohaku on the neumann thing too. most of the folks that come to me, though, aren't quite that high end. not yet at least. ;)

i've got a serious need for a control surface. i'm hoping to pick up an MCU for cheap now that the "pro" has been released. if you've ever spent any time mixing on a board, mixing with the mouse just doesn't feel right. often there's a mic preamp or 2 onboard control surfaces too, so depending on your other preamps, they may be an improvement.


cheers,
wade
 
you could always use it for headphone mixed and other accessoried. Maybe even use it to control the level into your auxillary monitors. It should screw up anything major being out of the chain.
I have 3 of them laying around one of them being a berry. heck who in their right mind is going to take it off your hands. Actually of of them an old 12channel Carvin desk has better sounds pres than my stand alone pre's ;(
 
A control surface does not seem to important to me. I do not see too many benefits from a sound quality standpoint. Maybe someone can change my mind, but they do not seem nessicary.
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although not necessary, they make for increased workflow

i can mix probably 10x faster when i have knobs/faders at my fingertips
 
Nick The Man said:
Yeah thats what I was thinking about. I think I need to learn alot more about them and what they do, and if I would need one. At this point in time, my thoughts are that they don't make anything sound better but they just make your program easier to use. But once again I don't really know much at all about them.
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You already have a control surface with 108+ keys in front of you ;) Seriously, learn to use (or create) hotkeys in your software, and you will already be working much faster.
 
mshilarious said:
You already have a control surface with 108+ keys in front of you ;) Seriously, learn to use (or create) hotkeys in your software, and you will already be working much faster.
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Thats what I'm sayin! A keyboard seems just fine to me. Plus spending alot of money on a control surface and having to learn it all. It is a good option for something to replace the blank spot my mixer would leave, but that doesn'tmean much to me.
 
I like to have the mixer because then I can just plug in and play without turning on the computer. Before I had the mixer if I had PC trouble I couldn't play. Now my band can just plug in a go no matter what.
I don't use my studio for anyone else but myself and it gets more use for band practice than anything else so a mixer makes sense for me.
 
I never use a mixer in the studio... I don't usually need to. Of course, I do a lot of industrial and other work that's mostly electronic anyway. If the main issue is the look of it, get a Midi controller keyboard. You can pick one up for less than $100, and you won't have that empty space. And then you can give me your mixer for free, because I do live sound too. :-D
 
Nick The Man said:
I have a BEHRINGER MX3282, its a 32 channel board which ive only used about 12 channels at once before. I have a TASCAM FW-1804, which gives me 8 ins and i just bought an M-audio Octane which gives me another 8.

Therefore, thats 16 ins that i can record simutaniously. Like i said before, I've used only 12 channels at once before with the mixer. Now that I have 16 ins the mixer feels usless. Now lets say i get rid of my mixer, that makes my sutdio a whole lot smaller and less impressive. So I guess what i want is maybe some ideas/reasons on why to keep my mixer and not buy like 4 quality preamps and get better sound?

I'm sure someone else has ran into this problem at some time too... right?
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Get a control surface, like the Behringer BCF2000. Much more impressive than a big analogue board, with the flying faders etc. Not too hard to use.
 
Hey, I was just wondering how getting hte Octane gave you 8 more ins. How does the octanes 8 ins get into the computer im confused can anyone help me out?
 
DAS19 said:
Hey, I was just wondering how getting hte Octane gave you 8 more ins. How does the octanes 8 ins get into the computer im confused can anyone help me out?
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Through the ADAT input of the Tascam. Research adat.
 
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