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I am working my way to a small, simple home studio to eventually record demo CD'S. My equipment is as follows: Kurzweil k2600X synth/workstation and a Dell 333 pent 2 with an existing Turtle Beach Montego Bay sound card (non-duplex). Cakewalk 8 PRO installed/Cool Edit as well. I have been steered to purchase a GINA 24 bit sound card and a Behringer mixer, specifically the 1604x. (and some cables, of course) :) I have researched these products fairly well, and I feel they should fit the "sound quality" bill...and with some room to grow as well. I am fairly new to all of this technology with exeption of my expertise in the Medical Sonography field, so please bare with me. Would anybody be so kind as to offer a little advice?? This is VERY important to me and I thank all respondants in advance. :) I will consider my second born as payment! j/k....Thanks a bunch, Rob from S.W.Florida
 
I have one of these mixers, I like it just fine... but Behringer mixers seem to be rather unpopular here. They certainly are far cheaper than anything comparable, so you gotta wonder...

Now, I'm sure the Gina is a fine card, but it seems that with 8 outputs and 2 inputs, it's more useful to someone who is going to mix to an external device like a DAT or stand-alone CD-R through an external mixer. (In this case, you probably would want a more fully-featured mixer than the Behringer MX1604A). Many people mix on the computer to a stereo WAV file that can be recorded to a CD-R drive. If this is the way you would work, it seems that the Gina's 8 outs are kind of a waste. A card that has more inputs might make more sense.
 
AlChuck said:
I have one of these mixers, I like it just fine... but Behringer mixers seem to be rather unpopular here. They certainly are far cheaper than anything comparable, so you gotta wonder...

Now, I'm sure the Gina is a fine card, but it seems that with 8 outputs and 2 inputs, it's more useful to someone who is going to mix to an external device like a DAT or stand-alone CD-R through an external mixer. (In this case, you probably would want a more fully-featured mixer than the Behringer MX1604A). Many people mix on the computer to a stereo WAV file that can be recorded to a CD-R drive. If this is the way you would work, it seems that the Gina's 8 outs are kind of a waste. A card that has more inputs might make more sense.
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I am sorry. I should have been more clear on what I want to achieve--- The nowadays simple process of mixing down vocals and midi sequences into my hard drive via cakewalk pro 8...and then perform a CD burn. Thats all I want to do. :) I humbly believe that a decent home demo job of exceptional material as opposed to a "big boy" production job of run of the mill, par for the course filler may very well raise eyebrows and make agents/promotional folks ears (wallets) perk... Thanks for your timely response as well, Al :)
 
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