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trebles
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Hi there
Well after reading forum after forum of great advice and spending some time researching what gear i feel i may need after spending some time thinking about the kind of recording id be doing i came to the conclusion that id need something more then a workstation with wonderfull features and average mic pre,s ive come up with some questions
Ive been been looking close at alot of the spec sheets on alot of the gear and a common thing occurs alot you finally decide upon one piece of gear then when you look closer there seems to be something that lets that piece of gear down so then you go on another quest to look for what you feel will match your budget and i guess work well with the projects you have planned and what you will want to be achieving longterm.
As for what i want to do i want to mix and record my own music and then maybe burn a cd good enough to send away for commercial packaging something i can sell at my gigs
Id also like to mix and record bands in a homestudio enviroment like a garage or room dedicated just for recording i guess this is why alot of us are here.
Finally to my question Ive decided that Id like to buy Mackie Gear
for recording and mixing ive chosen a Mackie HDR24/96 which in my opionion is the best unit for the recording i will be doing.
Where i am confused is in the mixer department ive looked at many mixers all that claim one trick or another over their rivals ive also read the forums where people will claim the same like one mixer vs another etc.
the mixer i really like is the Mackie D8b but i really cant afford it so i will have to settle for one of their mixers which will fall into line with my budget and will also deliver the performance i expect from a semi pro mixer the mixers ive looked at down from the D8b are Mackies 8bus consoles their 32 8,s and 24,8,s but none of them seem to have the xdr feature of their VLZ PRO range ok maybe i dont need it but the vlz line seem a nice line of desks indeed and are hard to beat when you look at what they offer the only other desk i really liked was the Allen an Heath Mixwizzard 20s is there anyway i might be able to chain two mackie vlz 1604 pros together which will give me 32 channels or will this process be messy?
the thought of the xdr feature really has me sold but if i cant chain these two 1604,s together maybe i,ll have to look for another solution the only reason ive not jumped for one of their 8 bus consoles is because i really like xdr who knows Mackie being the way they are with releasing all the combinations they do
might even extend their vlzpro range to a 24 8 vlzpro
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Could someone be kind enough to explain to me if iam going about this the right way as so far all i have is alot of opionion i now want to ground some of this opionion and run with some of it just which way to run is what i am still trying to work out here.
i thank you all for the time given to me on this posting
kindest regards wayne
Melbourne Australia

Well after reading forum after forum of great advice and spending some time researching what gear i feel i may need after spending some time thinking about the kind of recording id be doing i came to the conclusion that id need something more then a workstation with wonderfull features and average mic pre,s ive come up with some questions

Ive been been looking close at alot of the spec sheets on alot of the gear and a common thing occurs alot you finally decide upon one piece of gear then when you look closer there seems to be something that lets that piece of gear down so then you go on another quest to look for what you feel will match your budget and i guess work well with the projects you have planned and what you will want to be achieving longterm.
As for what i want to do i want to mix and record my own music and then maybe burn a cd good enough to send away for commercial packaging something i can sell at my gigs
Id also like to mix and record bands in a homestudio enviroment like a garage or room dedicated just for recording i guess this is why alot of us are here.
Finally to my question Ive decided that Id like to buy Mackie Gear
for recording and mixing ive chosen a Mackie HDR24/96 which in my opionion is the best unit for the recording i will be doing.
Where i am confused is in the mixer department ive looked at many mixers all that claim one trick or another over their rivals ive also read the forums where people will claim the same like one mixer vs another etc.
the mixer i really like is the Mackie D8b but i really cant afford it so i will have to settle for one of their mixers which will fall into line with my budget and will also deliver the performance i expect from a semi pro mixer the mixers ive looked at down from the D8b are Mackies 8bus consoles their 32 8,s and 24,8,s but none of them seem to have the xdr feature of their VLZ PRO range ok maybe i dont need it but the vlz line seem a nice line of desks indeed and are hard to beat when you look at what they offer the only other desk i really liked was the Allen an Heath Mixwizzard 20s is there anyway i might be able to chain two mackie vlz 1604 pros together which will give me 32 channels or will this process be messy?
the thought of the xdr feature really has me sold but if i cant chain these two 1604,s together maybe i,ll have to look for another solution the only reason ive not jumped for one of their 8 bus consoles is because i really like xdr who knows Mackie being the way they are with releasing all the combinations they do

might even extend their vlzpro range to a 24 8 vlzpro

Could someone be kind enough to explain to me if iam going about this the right way as so far all i have is alot of opionion i now want to ground some of this opionion and run with some of it just which way to run is what i am still trying to work out here.
i thank you all for the time given to me on this posting
kindest regards wayne

Melbourne Australia




