I want more XLR inputs, but want FireWire...

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Hey. I've been 100% positive about getting an Alesis Multimix 16 Firewire when it comes time to start my studio. However, If I eventually mic up my whole drum set, it'll take up all 8 XLR inputs. I would like 2 more for 1 to be fore vox and leaving the last 1 open or use it for amp micing.

How else could I get FireWire action with 10 XPR inputs for $600 or less? Here was my idea. Could I get an M-Audio Audiophile Firewire Recording Interface and a Behringer Eurorack UB2442FX-PRO mixer, and use RCA out of the mixer and into the Firewire interface? Would that still give me the Firewire capabilities to record say 10 tracks at once and have 10 individual tracks show up on Cubase? Or due to the RCA to the interface, would it be like recording 10 tracks into 1 stereo track?

Well, that's my idea. It'll save me about $100 or so if it would work how I want it to. If it wouldn't work, then I wouldn't bother doing it. I just want 10 XLR inputs on my mixer, but still want the Firewire ability to record all tracks as their own tracks.

Thanks.
 
No, that combo would not allow you to record 10 tracks in Cubase. See the thread going on about the MOTU 828mkII.....
 
That'd be even more expensive than the Alesis. Should I just man up, and get the Alesis? I mean, if all 8 were taken up by drums, I could take out the last 1 or 2, remember/write down its settings, and put a new mic and and find new settings, then remember/write down those settings when I put the drum mics back in.
 
Why wouldn't you just use mic preamps on the remaining 1/4" inputs once you run out of XLR inputs?
 
Wow...that's a great idea! Thanks, this thread is pretty much over now.
 
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