MIXER is it useful?

[christos]

NOT TRUE!
Look, any mic will ALWAYS pick up ambiant sounds... ALWAYS, even if you track with one mic (just listen how your solo mic will just pick up the headphone sound while dubbing)

If you track drums.... same thing.
But not to worry, 'coz the mic will pick up the CLOSEST sound and probably this sound will be so loud that the ambiant sound will be lost... (how about gating by the way?)
You can even use omni's on drums (toms for example).. b'coz it's the attack of the tom that will be superior to all other sounds. And that is what you will use during mixing.

Don't worry too much
I've done sooooo many semi-live recordings which sounds just like the over-dubbing sessions. Live recording is also great for the 'feel' of the recorded track. When musicians play together in one take, they will 'feel' the mood of the song better.


Im not worried at this stage as i dont intend to record the whole band at once
if in the future i want to do that i will tackle the problem (if there is any ) then.
At this stage im recording all instruments on my own so i will be ok
Thanx for your help and advise i have learned a lot the past couple days i been here

 

[alfalfa]

Christos, if the sm57 is your only mic then consider getting some condensor microphones. It does depend what you are going to record. Try doing a search in the microphone forum. This article is also a useful guide.
http://www.piemusic.com/mp/micproj.html

Rode microphones are relatively good value in Australia compared to imported brands like studio projects and marshall mxl probably because they are assembled locally eg a rode nt1000 is the same price or cheaper than a C1 for us whereas it is 50% more expensive than a C1 in the US.

You will probably want some effects (eg reverb) and compression. Whether you do it with software plugins or hardware rack units is up to you. You can probably use the fx on your behringer in the meantime or the plugins that come standard with your sequencer/recording software.

ps you might want to fill in your location on your profile. I forget sometimes whether you were from Australia or not.

 

[Chibi Nappa]

There are other reasons why you might need more than 1 mic input. Say you are recording an accoustic guitar. You could have two mics up on the guitar for a sterio sound, one mic several feet away in the room for natural reverb, and a DI line from the accoustic pickup. That's 4 tracks for 1 performance on 1 instrument. Stuff like that happens, and it is always good to be able to mix it later.

 

[TexRoadkill]

Apart from the obvious reasons listed above mulitiple I/O is important if you want to use any outboard processors during the mixdown.

 

[christos]

If one has a few mic inputs on the mixer what is the purpose of more mic inputs on the sound card?
I have seen some sound cards that actualy have more inputs on them than what a mixer has...................That made me wonder if i should have bought a sound card like the Aardvark Direct Pro Q10 PCI or the ST Audio DSP2000 instead of the mixer and a soundcard......

 

[malcolm123]

If one has a few mic inputs on the mixer what is the purpose of more mic inputs on the sound card?
I have seen some sound cards that actualy have more inputs on them than what a mixer has...................That made me wonder if i should have bought a sound card like the Aardvark Direct Pro Q10 PCI or the ST Audio DSP2000 instead of the mixer and a soundcard......

I once used a Darla card by event with 8ins / 8 outs. analog
Cakewalk 4+ was my central software.

Heres the ticker.

I had a 16 channel console
A Tascam MKII 488 casette 8 track recorder with onboard 8 channel mixer.
Bought a midi box and striped Smpte to sync it all. LOL

Ran it all back in to pc for the final stereo mix.

I thought I was the king back then.

But,, everything was seperated.

The Good ole Days !!

Malcolm