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rt2726
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First up, sorry for the long post. I've already made mistakes buying and selling a bunch of stuff and I'm hoping that my next purchase will stay with me for awhile...
I have been using a Boss BR-600 to record practice sessions and stuff but the more I get into this I'm finding that I'd like to be able to record and especially edit on my PC. I have a licensed copy of Reaper and Jamstix but I need an audio interface that will allow me to do guitar, bass and vox. I tried the original MBox a while back but I didn't really like that. I probably could have learned to deal with the latency better but I got annoyed with it and ended up selling it. I have a PODxtl for guitar and bass but I'd really like to leave that in the basement hooked to the PA so monitoring with VST amp sim plug-in's would be cool if it didn't cost me too much latency. I'm thinking about looking for something like a small dedicated mixer that I can leave connected to my PC with mic pre-amps +48v phantom power and some type of link to the PC and my studio monitors. I have a nice pair of M-Audio BX8's that aren't even hooked up to my PC at the moment! I end up listening to stuff through el cheapo computer speakers half the time. So does anyone have any ideas??? Is there some type of small mixer that I could hook to my PC for recording / monitoring? I really only need a few inputs. Good mic preamps XLR and Hi-Z 1/4" inputs would be nice. If I have to use a DI box / POD or whatever that's okay but I'm really leaning towards recording dry and using VST plug-ins for effects and such.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rich
I have been using a Boss BR-600 to record practice sessions and stuff but the more I get into this I'm finding that I'd like to be able to record and especially edit on my PC. I have a licensed copy of Reaper and Jamstix but I need an audio interface that will allow me to do guitar, bass and vox. I tried the original MBox a while back but I didn't really like that. I probably could have learned to deal with the latency better but I got annoyed with it and ended up selling it. I have a PODxtl for guitar and bass but I'd really like to leave that in the basement hooked to the PA so monitoring with VST amp sim plug-in's would be cool if it didn't cost me too much latency. I'm thinking about looking for something like a small dedicated mixer that I can leave connected to my PC with mic pre-amps +48v phantom power and some type of link to the PC and my studio monitors. I have a nice pair of M-Audio BX8's that aren't even hooked up to my PC at the moment! I end up listening to stuff through el cheapo computer speakers half the time. So does anyone have any ideas??? Is there some type of small mixer that I could hook to my PC for recording / monitoring? I really only need a few inputs. Good mic preamps XLR and Hi-Z 1/4" inputs would be nice. If I have to use a DI box / POD or whatever that's okay but I'm really leaning towards recording dry and using VST plug-ins for effects and such.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rich
