Multitrack recording

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Hello

I'm new to home recording and want to build a small home studio.

The typical situation will be that we are a couple muscians in my living room. We want to play together and recording something to get a more organic feel but no audience etc. just the band in the studio, kinda like rehearsing. Instruments will be three guitars, three vocals, Bass and Violine. Imagine you want to record this and then mix it on the computer. Therefore you need every audio source as a separate audio track on the computer.

I figured the apogee ensemble interface is suited for that purpose as it says:

"it features 36 channels of simultaneous audio (18 in, 18 out). As is often the case for a FireWire interface, this comes as eight channels of analogue, eight ADAT and two S/PDIF."
(review on musicradar)

So I think what I need are mics, which I plug into the interface and then connect it to the mac and mix it in Logic. Done.

Will this work or have I missunderstood something?!

Since I have never done anything like that, I'm rather sure before buying the wrong gear...
Tom
 
The Apogee is a good interface. It only has the capability to use 4 mics without adding additional mic preamps, though.

I typically use a TASCAM US1641 (now replaced by the US2000) for situations like you're describing. It's much more modestly priced and has 8 built in mic preamps.
 
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