USB Audio Interfaces/mixers - please help!

[johnboy11]

Hi everyone,

Basically I would like to buy a mixer/audio interface (no firewire ports so has to be USB), that is capable of recording 4 tracks simultaneously.

I would like to be able to record 4 seperate instruments/vocals at the same time, each of which can be edited individually after on the PC.

I am looking for the most INEXPENSIVE way of doing this, but with a decent quality. After all, i only want to buy this for a mess around with my friends, so we can take it to each others' house and record whatever etc. However, If you could find a cheap firewire one i'd be just as happy, as my laptop has a texas instruments firewire i/p.

I'd love you to help me as much as possible, i've looked already at the Alesis Multimix 8USB, but i think it can only record 2 tracks simultaneously, and also the Lexicon Omega, which i think is capable of 4 tracks at a time, but if you can find anything with these functions at a better price i will be most grateful!!!

Please help me, sorry if this has already been asked but i've browsed the forum quite a bit over the last few days without success.

Please get back to me, and remember, this is only a mess around with my friends, so we dont want seriously high quality, just decent enough for demo's.

Any recommendations are welcome!

Thank you all

John

 

[anteroom123]

hey if you absolutily dont have to record 4 tracks simultaniously i have a behringer xenyx mixer for sale with a usb-audio interface thats capible of recording 2 tracks if you pan the tracks opposite and then seporate them once their on your computer
it'll be cheaper than others that youll find, if its just for project stuff it should do the trick.
let me know if your interested.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Basically I would like to buy a mixer/audio interface (no firewire ports so has to be USB), that is capable of recording 4 tracks simultaneously.

I'm not sure that such a thing exists; if it does, it'll be extremely rare. USB is typically used on 2-channel devices; anything more than that and it's pretty much FireWire or PCI only.

G.

 

[surfmaster]

i would have sold you my m audio quattro, possibly the only usb interface with 4 ins and 4 outs w/ midi ins and outs, but i sold it already on ebay. but i wouldent recommend it, the drivers are old and unstable.