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Renovation Project Stress, Hardware help needed |
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jeu. 28 août 2008, 00:10
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Hi all: I have been recording at home for a while using the "normal" stuff: Mackie 24.8, interface and Mac.....Now I have this new Mac Pro w/Logic Pro 8 in it and still have my FW4410 M-Audio interface....I do have a bunch of synth modules and outboard as well, but I think it is time to update my set up. I guess I´ll give all the old and bulky stuff away (Mackie, synth, outboard, adat, dat, etc) and will keep just the most beloved: a couple fo modules, a rev and maybe a compressor....But I am going to need a mixer, but a small one. I guess I´ll need one that could act as an interface and as a small mixer...But this search is not an easy task. I´ve been looking in the web for such a piece but with not success. Here´s where I need some of your help. Any idea of how could I put this set up together ? There´s a mini-mixer-interface waiting for me ? If so, are their pre good enough to make a more than decent recording ? I would like to make it a better looking space too, so I think I could move to a "better" interface and do some cosmetic changes but I can´t sell the house to do that........for obvious reasons.... So, I need help and I also know that this could be the place. I´ll look forward to read your ideas....if any Thanks a lot in advance
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jeu. 28 août 2008, 11:48
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Have you concidered MIO's Mobile I/O 2882? It's one of the best sounding fire wire interfaces around. It isn't a hardwaremixer. but it has 80 bit peace of software-mixer that's awesome. 18 inputs and 20 out. Check there websiteBest regards John
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jeu. 28 août 2008, 13:51
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MOTU 828 MKIII has software mixer chops, as well as significant built in dsp. only two mic pres, and not great ones, unfortunately. i use a combination of 828 and a Mackie mixer, taking signal right off the pres to analog ins on the 828.
renovation is a good thing. take it all down, clean everything, rethink the ergonomics. don't buy a solution, think a solution. is the impulse to change coming from an unconscious dissatisfaction? act from an awareness of the highest goal. spring cleaning, baby.
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jeu. 28 août 2008, 16:16
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Well, Thank you all guys....!! Yes, it is a matter of thinking and doing it at ease .... The vacuum cleaner is first thing.... Then I must admit, it is some kind of unconformity with the actual shape of thinks... I guess I will go for a shure thing, may be an Ensemble or a TC Electronic Konnekt 48..Any of them still keep my good old modules and reverb out of the set up...A friend told me about buying a good Pre + an interface card, in order to get a good sound into the cpu....but nothing about the XX century devices...! I have also saw an Alesis mixer-interface, an M-Audio and even a Roland.....But all they give me that toy look or a sense of going back...somehow. Well thanks again for your input, I promise to post some material made with the new stuff, whenever I could get it going... Mac Music is still a good start point
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ven. 29 août 2008, 17:01
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Thanks again....I ´ve been considering a new chair too...Seems silly but it isn´t. What´s really keeping me asleep is that feeling of waste, looking to all that turned off "analog" modules...So when I decided to "think of a solution", I was trying to find out a way to put things right and gain a little more space in the process... I am also thinking about finishing a new record, mostly by my own (which is something I have never though...). Dealing with a group of virtual instruments, playing guitar and bass and calling a real drummer only when I see that I really can´t make it w/Addictive Drum or Ultrabeat.........Sound familiar...? And like a kid, I wonder that if I could change something around, in order to find some motivation...(working alone in a tiny space could be frustrating) I´ll be able to happily finish the such call "record".....I´m also considering painting as part of the renovation. You´ve been great with advice and cosideration.....The blog is useful too....Thanks www.myspace.com/carrascoguillermo (no obligation...)
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