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Overhead
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I have a digi-001. I have a mac. I wanted to maybe get a mixer but don't know how I would hook it up and what benefits I would have by adding a mixer to my setup??? Would it enhance the sound ? 
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LRosario
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Probably not enough to really make a difference.
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RD423
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A mixer wouldn't enhance the sound because you are actually talking about a control surface that doesn't help the sound it just makes it to where you can mix with your hands.
Teacher
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Overhead said:Would it enhance the sound ?
It depends, if its a 50K SSL, Neve, API etc....heck yea....if its a $500 mackie hell no....
Ronan
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Guess I am the lone voice here. I say get a real console!! and a real analog mackie counts.
I would look at a 4 bus mackie, both the 1604 and the 24x4 are decent boards. (I have done major label work on the latter, and I am currently mixing an album on the former, and I am a guy that mixes tons of records on SSLs)
If you buy and old busted ADAT you can use it as an additional 8 channel DA converter for a total of 16 outs.
In my personal experience mixing this way blows away mixing inside pro tools LE. using a real mixer for summing will help your mixes sound bigger wider and deeper, you can use the gain stage of the line inputs of the mackie as a creative tool, you can hook up a real compressor and do paralel drum compression without phasing caused by digital latency. the EQ on a cheap board will not be the best, but in a mix you should be mostly cutting anyway and they sound OK for that. If you prefer the sound of a digital EQ over the analog EQ for a certain instrument you can still use the digital EQ on that channel.
I am not an old school zealot. I mixed my first record in the box around 1991, and I mixed a project in the digital domain two weeks ago, but i still think analog mixing blows away mixing in the box. I have not done an album mixing inside ProTools HD yet, so I can not say about that, but every other situation I have worked in, analog mixing has stomped digital mixing.
I would look at a 4 bus mackie, both the 1604 and the 24x4 are decent boards. (I have done major label work on the latter, and I am currently mixing an album on the former, and I am a guy that mixes tons of records on SSLs)
If you buy and old busted ADAT you can use it as an additional 8 channel DA converter for a total of 16 outs.
In my personal experience mixing this way blows away mixing inside pro tools LE. using a real mixer for summing will help your mixes sound bigger wider and deeper, you can use the gain stage of the line inputs of the mackie as a creative tool, you can hook up a real compressor and do paralel drum compression without phasing caused by digital latency. the EQ on a cheap board will not be the best, but in a mix you should be mostly cutting anyway and they sound OK for that. If you prefer the sound of a digital EQ over the analog EQ for a certain instrument you can still use the digital EQ on that channel.
I am not an old school zealot. I mixed my first record in the box around 1991, and I mixed a project in the digital domain two weeks ago, but i still think analog mixing blows away mixing in the box. I have not done an album mixing inside ProTools HD yet, so I can not say about that, but every other situation I have worked in, analog mixing has stomped digital mixing.
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