Mixer or Not?

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cottonmouth71

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I am a newbie with little experience. I want to be able to record vocals, and various instruments to create demos and such. I know I have a long way to go but I like to plan ahead.

I have an old (90's) 16 channel EV mixer, a few shure sm58's, and 1.4 ghz 256mb ram computer. I am looking at purchasing either a GINA or a Aardvark 24/96 for my audio interface because currently I have a sound blaster and the monitoring is impossible. I know I will need software but this is not my current issue.

The problem is I don't now how good EV preamps are going to be. I have used the mixer live but I still don't know its potential. If I opt to go with the Aardvark it has its own preamps which from what I hear are excellent. However, if EV's preamps will be o.k. I may go with the GINA or something more affordable for my limited wallet, in hopes to possibly buy a better microphone for vocals.

Thanks for any input and sorry for any important details I may have left out.
 
Go get the Aardvark, and be happy with your current mixer. Unless you really got sound quality issue (...which you realy can hear) you'll be fine with those for long. Go get something Mackie or Soundcraft when you aford for mixer later.

;)
Jaymz
 
Thanks

Thank you for the response. I think I will go with the Aardvark card. It will be easier to monitor if I still use my mixer seeing have an amp to.

again thanks.
 
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