PCI recording

[Spennels]

I have a question about recording with a PCI interface. I am confused about how one would connect the sound card to a mixer. I want to be able to record four tracks simultaneously but I do not know how to hook a card up to do that. Do you hook up only the tracks you are looking to record or can you somehow arm the ones you record or can you only record to a stero track. I am confused because I have seen that you can hook them up to a alt bus but thats only two inputs and I want 4 tracks. I might just opt for a firepod but the PCI card seemed more apealing because of the expandabilitiy of the mixer. Any help would be greatly apprieciated

 

[Spennels]

o yea, and how many tracks would I be able to record at once on a setup like this http://www.tweakheadz.com/images/nmodisetup.jpg

 

[irishfolker]

With that setup you are going to wind up with only 2 tracks on your computer which will basically be a stereo mix of everything that is fed into the mixer (keyboard, drum machine, mike).

 

[scrubs]

Specifically, what mixer and what soundcard are you considering? A good budget option is the Delta 44 from M-Audio. You would need to pair it with a mixer that has direct outs for each channel or insert points on each channel, so you could route them to the inputs on the delta.

 

[TimOBrien]

You are still going to need a sound card/interface with multiple in/out channels.

1 channel for every separate instrument you want to record simultaneously.

No way around that.

 

[Spennels]

ok thanks i think i have an idea

 

[Minion]

What I do is use a Mixer to Mic Live drums into a setero signal and input that into Ch 1 & 2 of my Delta 44 and then I can record Live Guitar and Bass through Input 3 & 4 useing a couple of external Mic preamps (DIY of cource) and a couple mics.....

For me it works pretty good as long as the Drum mix is good......


Cheers