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Hi there.
i've been happily using my Delta 66 and MG12/4 mixer together recording songs as a 'one man band' style thing for a while now, and found it a nice way of getting in to recording without really limiting my options - if i didn't want to do anything else, i'd be more than happy with this setup for years to come.
the problem is, my (pretty big) swing/jazz band are planning on recording pretty soon, and we're going to need more than 4 inputs if we're going to do anything to the standard we want. we can mix in the box, and another band member has another MG12/4, so that isn't really a problem. i've given it a bit of thought, and decided that adding another delta 66 MIGHT give us the number of tracks we'd want. but thinking about it some more, how would adding a Delta 1010 work? this would give us enough tracks (three for drums, one bass, one guitar, one keyboard, 2x saxes, 2x trombones, 2x trumpets.) i would overdub the voice parts we have on about a third of our songs afterwards.
would the Delta 66 and the 1010 work together fine, or would there be issues? would you get rid of the Delta 66 altogether, and say put the bass and the drums onto one stereo track from the beginning? i was also thinking we could track All the horns to stereo all at once, but this might be pushing it a bit...
or would you suggest something completely different? Edit - I've been looking at the Terratec Phase 88 http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/3545 ... it'd add as many I/O's as the Delta 88, at about two thirds of the cost - worth thinking about?
i understand that these pieces of equipment aren't necessarily fully professional, but i think i've produced recordings of a quality i'm happy with consistently for a while now, and think i'd be able to do something worth listening to.
thanks for any and all advice,
Andy
i've been happily using my Delta 66 and MG12/4 mixer together recording songs as a 'one man band' style thing for a while now, and found it a nice way of getting in to recording without really limiting my options - if i didn't want to do anything else, i'd be more than happy with this setup for years to come.
the problem is, my (pretty big) swing/jazz band are planning on recording pretty soon, and we're going to need more than 4 inputs if we're going to do anything to the standard we want. we can mix in the box, and another band member has another MG12/4, so that isn't really a problem. i've given it a bit of thought, and decided that adding another delta 66 MIGHT give us the number of tracks we'd want. but thinking about it some more, how would adding a Delta 1010 work? this would give us enough tracks (three for drums, one bass, one guitar, one keyboard, 2x saxes, 2x trombones, 2x trumpets.) i would overdub the voice parts we have on about a third of our songs afterwards.
would the Delta 66 and the 1010 work together fine, or would there be issues? would you get rid of the Delta 66 altogether, and say put the bass and the drums onto one stereo track from the beginning? i was also thinking we could track All the horns to stereo all at once, but this might be pushing it a bit...
or would you suggest something completely different? Edit - I've been looking at the Terratec Phase 88 http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/3545 ... it'd add as many I/O's as the Delta 88, at about two thirds of the cost - worth thinking about?
i understand that these pieces of equipment aren't necessarily fully professional, but i think i've produced recordings of a quality i'm happy with consistently for a while now, and think i'd be able to do something worth listening to.
thanks for any and all advice,
Andy
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