Which Mixer 4 Home Recording???

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Hi all,

I was thinking of having a go at some home recording.

I was tempted to buy a smallish mixer and record using its master line out by plugging it into my home computer. Obviously this means that if i was recording with more than one input that the channels would be all put into one track within cubase.

I have had a look around and found the Alesis MultiMix 8FIREWIRE 8-Channel Mixer with Firewire. This mixer offers the ability to separate your channels into corresponding tracks. However as this is my first time attempting recording on my own I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to spend £250!?

I have a usb Creative Extigy Sound card, 5.1 speaker setup, Drums, Amps etc. Does anyone have any other ideas or thoughts on what I could do, use or buy(trying to watch the pennys £$£$£) ?

Many thanks

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Does the "Mackie VLZ PRO" provide discreet channel separation? I can’t seem to find any information about that or any form of PC connection method?

Am I missing something here?
 
Get a mixer with direct channel outs. That way, you can record separate channels, later mixing ITB. The Soundcraft M Series are very good mixers for this purpose.
 
sdelsolray said:
Get a mixer with direct channel outs. That way, you can record separate channels, later mixing ITB. The Soundcraft M Series are very good mixers for this purpose.
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If ive got this right, i am thinking i would need an input socket on my computer for every channel that I output???

Problem is that i only really have 2 inputs on my sound card, hence why I was looking at this Multimix firewire option.

Have i got this wrong?

Any help at all would be great as like i said im not up to scratch with exactly what i need to get/do!

Many thanks once again
 
Eboe said:
If ive got this right, i am thinking i would need an input socket on my computer for every channel that I output???

Problem is that i only really have 2 inputs on my sound card, hence why I was looking at this Multimix firewire option.

Have i got this wrong?

Any help at all would be great as like i said im not up to scratch with exactly what i need to get/do!

Many thanks once again
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If you want to keep the channels seperate in the computer, which I assume that you do, then definitely, yes.

No, I think that you are on the right track. :)

If it were me, I would go with a mixer with direct outs and a multiple input soundcard, although the mixers with the firewire options are not bad either. Mackie also makes some mixers that have the firewire option, as well (the onyx series). You may want to check those out, too.

As far as soundcards go, people around here seem to like M-Audio soundcards; I don't have any experience with them, and don't know which one would be better, so you may want to ask someone else about them.

Hope that I helped. :D
 
well as this is my first effort I don’t really want to spend more than i have to and given that I already have a Extigy sound card I don’t really want to go buying another one so yer thanks I’ll have a look at those Mackie mixers!

I’m working with a laptop so the USB Extigy seemed like the best option for my 5.1 speaker set up.

While we are on this subject does anyone know of a decent/cheap/all purpose mic that I could get and use for mic’ing amps and drums as well as vocals etc.

I’m not after perfection, just a decent recording.

Cheers once more
 
WOW thats a bit more than what i was hoping to spend! Looks to me like you have to buy the mixer and then the Firewire card if you want to record more than one independant channels at any one time. Totalling around £700.

Thats what made me look at the Multimix mixers because they start around £250. Sounds ok to me.

Any other thoughts?
 
Well, judging by your budget and what you want to do with your equipment, I would say that the Alesis fits nicely. :)
 
You don't need a mixer. You just need preamps. Get an M-Audio DMP 3 dual preamp. It has two preamps that are better than those in the cheap mixers.
 
tdukex said:
You don't need a mixer. You just need preamps. Get an M-Audio DMP 3 dual preamp. It has two preamps that are better than those in the cheap mixers.
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That's a good suggestion. I was sticking to the mixer route because it seemed like he wants to do more than 2 inputs from the get-go. And with his budget, that seemed the best option. But Eboe, check out the DMP3 option; it would work very well, if you only need to do 2 tracks at once.
 
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