Sound cards, soundproofing

[musicfest]

Hi,
Even I checked out carvin dot com many times, I don't have a clue what `direct/list' means ? (ie list is double the direct price)..
in australia the KORG machine you are talking about is 2495$ and the Yamaha is also 2495$? I personally am not keen on the MD idea.. I think computers are definately the way to go, mainly because they're so expandable, hard disks etc, cd burners (you don't have to get some double the cost burner that only works with a certain unit )

Anyhow, we're a little confused about the whole thing. What I thought would be good though..

A 16 channel mixer, that we could plug everything into, mix down our drums in a subgroup to 1 track that plugs in on a 4 or 8 track (unit or soundcard) recorder.. and we can plug (From the outputs of the mixer - which i think we'll need) the guitars, bass and vocals. etc.

What do you think?
Does the SM162 have an output for each channel?

I mean, as far as plugging into amps etc goes, these units look great.. but what about recording channels individually? We'd rather have the freedom to edit each track ..

Does this make any sense?

Thanks for your time!

billy

 

[Even]

I don't know if the web browsing will be different for you out there, the best I can tell you as far as that goes, is to search the site the best you can there. It will ask you to enable cookies and the like so I can't give you the dead on link for it. But, I can tell you a tad more about the Carvin studiomate. Channels 1 through 8 are "normal" channels. you can plug in either 1/4 inch or mics. Underneath each of those inputs (last 1/4 above the track of nobs) is a special jack that you can half insert a cable and run that specific channel out via that. In other words if you plug the patch cable into that and then the other end to whatever you are recording into, then you will be able to send just that track (as opposed to sending the whole 16 channel mix via phones out). Now channels 9-16 are stereo inputs. to put it simply 9 and ten are left and right channels of a single track. 11 and 12 are paired and so on. the stereo channels are great for plugging in drum machines, stereo guitar units or even your home CD player. The stereo channels do NOT have the independant line out feature the mom channels have. But all in all you can indeed run out one to eight tracks independantly.

 

[musicfest]

Hey Even, what to you mean `half insert' a cable. I remember once with my guitar amp, the headphone jack only worked when I had the lead half plugged in, is that what you mean? the SM162 looks really great.. ive printed out all the specs etc. Are there any other models similar to it that have faders?

Thanks so much for all your help!

Billy